American Idol alum Gabby Barrett announces title and release date for sophomore album, alongside new song “Growin’ Up Raising You.”
American Idol alum Gabby Barrett has announced the title and release date for Chapter & Verse – her sophomore album, due out on February 2, 2024 on Warner Music Nashville.
Her most autobiographical work to date, Chapter & Verse will follow the 23-year-old country singer’s Platinum debut Goldmine. Additionally, Gabby shares the latest release from Chapter & Verse, a poignant track titled “Growin’ Up Raising You,” written by Barrett, Jon Nite, Zach Kale, and Jimmy Robbins. The slow-burning ballad details all the fear and hope of new motherhood. Gabby co-produced the track alongside Ross Copperman.
“‘Growin’ Up Raising You’ is a very sensitive song for me,” Gabby shares. “I’m only 23 – I don’t have all the answers to everything, and I haven’t gotten everything figured out. I’m doing the best that I can while trying to raise other people to be the best people they can be. I feel so blessed to be able to have three little lives that I can help to flourish while I’m also trying to figure out life myself.”
Gabby takes more creative control on ‘Chapter & Verse’
Chapter & Verse finds the singer taking greater creative control than ever before having co-written and co-produced already released “Glory Days” – her current single that’s Top 30-and-climbing at Country radio – and “Cowboy Back.”
Along with fully leaning into her Country roots on Chapter & Verse, Barrett’s deepened the emotional scope of her songwriting and created an up close portrait of her experience as a wife and mother of two children, with her third baby, with husband Cade Foehner, due early next year. To that end, the album’s title refers to the chapters and verses within each book of the Bible, as well as the still-unfolding chapters in her marriage, family, career, and overall journey through life.
Gabby’s debut album Goldmine, a 2020 release, featured smash singles like mega breakout 7X PLATINUM #1 “I Hope,” 4-week Hot AC #1 crossover “I Hope (feat. Charlie Puth),” 3X PLATINUM three-week #1 “The Good Ones,” and PLATINUM “Pick Me Up.”
