Carrie Underwood is preparing to release her new studio album, Cry Pretty, on Friday (September 14th). Her most personal collection to date, Cry Pretty, features 9 songs co-written by Carrie, including the title track and the bonus song, “The Champion,” which was used for 2018’s Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics.
In her first official role as co-producer, alongside David Garcia, Carrie says it was truly a collaborative effort between them.
“I have ideas in my head, but I’m trying to explain to him, ‘I’m picturing it like this. What if we added more this, took this away and changed the song up and half this chorus and made this happen,’” says Carrie. “He was always so great to listen to my ideas, of course, collaborate with me, bounce ideas off each other, and then he was good at executing technically what I was trying to say, because I knew how I wanted it to sound and I feel like he respected me as an artist. So, it was just really great working with him and truly collaborate.”
In Spring 2019, Underwood will launch a new arena tour, The Cry Pretty Tour 360. Sponsored by CALIA, the new tour will kick off on May 1 in Greensboro, NC, and will play 55 arenas across the U.S. and Canada and be promoted by AEG Presents. She will be joined on tour by special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June.
Cry Pretty Track List:
- Cry Pretty (Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
- Ghosts On The Stereo (Hillary Lindsey, Tom Douglas, Andrew Dorff)
- Low (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
- Backsliding (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
- Southbound (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Miller)
- That Song That We Used To Make Love To (Hillary Lindsey, Jason Evigan)
- Drinking Alone (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Brett James)
- The Bullet (Marc Beeson, Andy Albert, Allen Shamblin)
- Spinning Bottles (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
- Love Wins (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Brett James)
- End Up With You (Hillary Lindsey, Brett McLaughlin, Will Weatherly)
- Kingdom (Carrie Underwood, Chris DeStefano, Dave Barnes)
- The Champion ((Carrie Underwood, Brett James, Chris DeStefano, Christopher Bridges PKA Ludacris) Produced by Jim Jonsin)
Produced by David Garcia and Carrie Underwood
Audio / Carrie Underwood talks about co-producing Cry Pretty with David Garcia.
DownloadCarrie Underwood (coproducing with David) OC: …outs of things. :43
“David and I had a really great relationship as far as being around each other and writing with each other. I feel like we always had lots to talk about, and I feel like even though we grew up in different places, we kind of grew up the same. So. there was that, just all of that just made for a really comfortable environment. And I remember in the beginning, we’re both sizing each other up as producers, not in any kind of weird way but it’s like okay what’s our role? What’s both of our roles here? This is my first time sitting behind the board. I feel like I’ve always been creative in the production sense with this is what I want it to sound like, but I never really knew how to make it sound like that; the technical ins and outs of things.”
Audio / Carrie Underwood says she and co-producer David Garcia worked well together in making her new album, Cry Pretty.
DownloadCarrie Underwood (coproducing with David) 2 OC: …collaborate. :38
“I have ideas in my head, but I’m trying to explain to him, ‘I’m picturing it like this. What if we added more this, took this away and changed the song up and half this chorus and made this happen.’ He was always so great to listen to my ideas, of course, collaborate with me, bounce ideas off each other, and then he was good at executing technically what I was trying to say, because I knew how I wanted it to sound and I feel like he respected me as an artist. So, it was just really great working with him and truly collaborate.”
