On 'My Savior,' Carrie Underwood Sings For An Audience Of One
My Savior, the new album by Carrie Underwood, is a first for the country music superstar, who pulls from the songbook of her childhood in church.
by Noel King
Mar 26, 2021
4 minutes
Picture this: It's sometime in the early 1990s, in rural Oklahoma. There's a little church, called Free Will Baptist. It's Sunday, and inside of the church everyone is wearing their nicest clothes. They listen to the sermon, until the pastor calls a kid â a little girl â up to the front, to lead everyone in a song: "Amazing Grace."
These are the memories that country music superstar Carrie Underwood pulls from for her new album, My Savior. It's her first release comprised solely of Christian songs, based on the hymnals she'd sing along to in her youth.
Underwood spoke with NPR's Noel King about the process of selecting songs from her childhood for the album,
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