Jennifer Nettles is hitting stores with her new solo album, That Girl, on Tuesday (January 14th), and she took a different approach to the recording process than she did with Sugarland’s releases.

“After working within – happily — the success of Sugarland for 10 years, I not only wanted the process to be different, I needed it to be different. I needed to push myself, I needed to play with my voice ways that in the nature of collaboration one really doesn’t get to always,” says Jennifer. “There are always parts of oneself that you never get to play with because it’s the nature of collaboration, you’re always influencing each other. So, I wanted to push myself and to see what would happen and to trust myself. This whole album to me was an exercise in trust.”

You’ll be able to catch her performing songs from her new album when she launches her That Girl Tour February 14th in Washington, DC.

Jennifer Nettles (different process) OC: …right person. 1:29
“After working within – happily — the success of Sugarland for 10 years, I not only wanted the process to be different, I needed it to be different. I needed to push myself, I needed to play with my voice ways that in the nature of collaboration one really doesn’t get to always. There are always parts of oneself that you never get to play with because it’s the nature of collaboration, you’re always influencing each other. So, I wanted to push myself and to see what would happen and to trust myself. This whole album to me was an exercise in trust. It was trust in myself as a songwriter. It was trusting myself as a singer enough to be able to say ‘Hey Rick, here are these songs that are pretty important to me, and this album is pretty important to me, and I’m gonna be really vulnerable and I’m just gonna say, ‘Okay, how do you see them?’ There were some times to where I was there sort of white-knuckled thinking like, ‘Oh my God! I think I wanna vomit because this really isn’t going the way that I wanted it to go, but I’m just gonna go with the process.’ Again, trust the process, and if I were going to trust anyone to take these songs and and to to push them to new places than I had envisioned. I felt that Rick was the right person.”