Amy Grant's Power of Vulnerability in Music: Sweet Song Podcast Episode 24

I think the key thing that I've been seeing is this term resilience being used to talk about what the music represents on the new album and just kind of where you are.

But I wanted to flip that question over to you and ask about sort of how brave it is to be vulnerable, which I think when you were writing about how much vulnerability to show, you know, after everything you've been through in the last seven or eight years with your help.

Well, just for starters, I didn't really realize I was making a record.

And so I was just writing as therapy.

And then at some point, I mean, I was writing quite a bit.

And at some point I thought, hey, I would love to go in the studio and record some of these.

I just hadn't done that, you know, except for not even a handful of times, just a one-off song, you know, in well over a decade.

And I thought this would, it would just be fun.

And so I reached out to Mac McAnally, and he and I were working on a song together, so we'd been trading voicemails for a few months.

And I said, any chance in the new year, 2025, we could go in the studio and just record a couple of songs? But it wasn't like, I've got a record deal.

He never signed a producer contract.

He said, yeah, let me just, let me hire a group of guys.

And we did two songs and had so much fun.

I was like, and I just kept going, this is so, I forgot how much fun it is to record music.

Because it takes everybody's lifetime of practice and working on their talent, working on their craft.

And then you play one of your songs, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, and you toss it out to five or six really exquisite musicians.

And you just watch this masterpiece emerge.

And I kept saying, this is so much fun.

He said, Amy, if music's not fun, something is wrong with the world.

You know, six weeks went by and I said, I've got more songs.

Can we go back in the studio? And so all of it was just like, you know, I felt compelled to continue recording.

But I was never thinking, how are these songs coming across? I was never thinking I was actually making a record.

And it

was after the third day of recording.

And those were, one happened in January, one happened in March, one happened in April.