By 2018’s Cry Pretty, her sixth album, she’d co-written nine of 13 songs, and co-produced the whole thing. Throughout her career, Underwood has celebrated women in country music-like favouring female opening acts-while upping her songwriting game, bringing unpretentious elegance to a Nashville industry overrun with male composers. On 2007’s follow-up, Carnival Ride, platinum tunes like “So Small”, “Last Name” and Randy Travis duet “I Told You So” exemplified her high-gloss approach: songs that emphasise self-confidence, hair-metal guitar sheen, dance-pop synths, and arena beats. With powerful pipes and farmgirl charm, she handily won the show’s 2005 season, while her Some Hearts debut that same year further defined her as a forceful performer with vocal range and athletic theatricality. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1983, Underwood dreamt of becoming a singer but decided on a more practical path-a communications degree-before auditioning for American Idol as a last-ditch effort. Maybe that’s because she took her time stepping to the plate. Underwood was relatable yet unusually composed from the start, a middle-class woman singing about being romantically wronged or living hand-to-mouth who never comes undone, even with a Louisville Slugger in hand. And amazingly enough, when the country star vandalised a vehicle in the video for 2005’s quintuple-platinum “Before He Cheats”, it wasn’t righteous rage she projected-it was pure poise. There’s a reason people continue to record it after all these years.Carrie Underwood took a bat to a scuzzball boyfriend’s prized ride more than a decade before Beyoncé did in Lemonade. When we were picking the final songs, my co-producer David Garcia asked me if there was anything I thought people would be disappointed by or miss if I didn’t do it, and there was my answer. “I almost didn’t include ‘Amazing Grace,’ because it’s a song that so many people have recorded. I think it brought a lot of healing into the room that night, and I hope it will continue to bring peace to people who need it.” “I sang ‘Softly and Tenderly’ on the CMA Awards for the ‘In Memoriam’ segment, and it was a very emotional moment in the show. It’s another beautiful traditional song that I sing to my boys.” “When I think of ‘The Old Rugged Cross,’ I can hear certain people that I can remember singing with in church when I was young. It’s one of my favorite hymns and has so much personal history for me, getting to perform it with Vince years ago and then to revisit it now.” “This was an easy choice for me I knew it had to be included on this album. Getting to have her on this album and getting to spend time with her is just magical.”
The message of ‘Great Is Thy Faithfulness’ is so powerful, and you can tell CeCe means every word when she sings it. Her voice is a gift from God and she is like a ray of sunshine when she walks into the room. The fact that we actually got to have his voice on harmonies is a thrill for me.” From the moment we decided to record it for the album, we heard Bear ’s voice on it. It’s traditionally a bit slow, but my co-producer David Garcia and I wanted to give it some tempo and movement.
‘Nothing but the Blood of Jesus’ is another song that is really special to me. It’s just pure and simple and sweet, and felt like the perfect way to introduce this album, with the legendary Buddy Greene on harmonica. “‘Jesus Loves Me’ is one of the first songs I remember singing as a little girl, and now my own kids love to sing it. Jesus Loves Me Nothing but the Blood of Jesus Below, Underwood walks Apple Music through several of the album’s key tracks. Across My Savior, Underwood, who also arranged each song, explores a number of musical styles, showing that her reach extends far beyond country music. Gospel legend CeCe Winans joins Underwood on "Great Is Thy Faithfulness,” lending her widely beloved voice to the hymn’s second verse. Underwood co-produced My Savior with David Garcia, a Dove Award-winning songwriter and producer who also co-produced Underwood’s 2018 LP Cry Pretty. Tracks include spiritual staples like “Amazing Grace” and “How Great Thou Art,” as well as reprisals of some of Underwood’s best-loved live performances, like a studio version of “Softly and Tenderly,” which she famously performed at the 2017 CMA Awards following the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting. With My Savior, Underwood releases her first studio gospel album, pulling together 13 of her favorite hymns and faith-based songs and reimagining them as her own. Songs of faith have long been part of Carrie Underwood’s live repertoire, frequently making their way into the country superstar’s touring sets and special appearances.
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