Carrie Underwood is taking fans back to her Christian roots in her first ever gospel album, My Savior, which hit stores and streaming services Friday.
The collection includes classics like “How Great Thou Art,” Amazing Grace,” “Blessed Assurance,” and “Great Is Thy Faithfulness.”
The 38-year-old songstress says the album is “legacy stuff” for her, adding that she was inspired by the Christian hymnals she grew up singing in church.
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“I went to a very small Free Will Baptist church in my hometown of Checotah, Oklahoma,” Carrie told NPR’s Noel King. “We would file in and sit in the pews and they’d say, ‘Open your hymnals to page…’ or whatever. And off we went.”
Carrie first announced the gospel album in an Instagram post on Christmas day, saying it was a follow-up to her first ever Christmas album, My Gift.
“Last year was a tough year for everybody, and I think just wanting to be positive in this world and sing these songs that bring me so much joy, hopefully, others can be like that as well and these songs can bring others joy,” she told PEOPLE Magazine. “That goes back with everything that I do … I just want to do positive things.”
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