Amy Grant is back with new music, and ‘The Me That Remains’ is worth every year of the wait. The 6-time Grammy Award winner and 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree’s first collection of all-original songs in 13 years is out now via Thirty Tigers, produced by 10-time CMA Award winner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Mac McAnally across 10 tracks that reflect on healing, connection, endurance, and grace.
The album’s emotional centerpiece and title track was co-written with McAnally and addresses directly the profound health challenges Grant has faced in recent years, including open heart surgery and a life-altering bike accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. The lyrics don’t flinch from the weight of those experiences, and the song ultimately lands as an uplifting testament to survival and gratitude. The official music video, filmed on Grant’s Tennessee farm, is out now.
McAnally’s production throughout the album is deliberately understated, keeping Grant’s warm, resolute voice at the center of every track. The approach suits the material perfectly. This is a singer-songwriter record in the truest sense, stripped down and emotionally direct, built on more than 50 years of lived experience that Grant brings to every line.
The collaborator list reflects the personal relationships that have shaped her life as much as her career. “How Do We Get There From Here” features Ruby Amanfu and wrestles with collective healing. “The Saint” was co-written with longtime collaborator Michael W. Smith. “Friend Like You” features Vince Gill, and “The Other Side Of Goodbye” closes the album with Sarah Cannon and Corrina Gill. Each collaboration carries genuine weight rather than serving as a feature for its own sake.
The album was first previewed with “The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm),” a meditation on unity and perspective drawn from the idealism of the Woodstock era, a fitting entry point for a record that consistently reaches for something larger than the personal while staying rooted in it.
The album artwork, created by artist Wayne Brezinka as a mixed-media collage, assembles meaningful fragments of Grant’s life directly into the portrait: pieces of a treasured quilt, seashells from her collection, her childhood Bible, and an article about her grandfather. It’s a visual approach that mirrors the album’s themes of memory and reconstruction with real creative care.
‘The Me That Remains’ is out now via Thirty Tigers.
‘The Me That Remains’ Track Listing:
The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm)
“How Do We Get There From Here” featuring Ruby Amanfu
Please Don’t Make Me Beg
The Saint
Beautiful Lone Companion
The Me That Remains
‘Til We Get It Right
(Nothing Like A) Sunny Day
“Friend Like You” with Vince Gill
“The Other Side Of Goodbye” with Sarah Cannon & Corrina Gill