Gabby Barrett Announces ‘Chapter & Verse’ Experience In Nashville

It's a huge week in the life of Gabby Barrett. Not only is the country singer expecting baby No. 3 any second now with her husband, Cade Foehner. But she's also releasing her sophomore album, Chapter & Verse, on Friday (2/2).

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Barrett has announced a 2-day event for her fans in Nashville, Tennesee, to celebrate the album's release this Thursday and Friday. Although she can't be there in person, the "You're My Texas" singer is offering a "backstage look" into her life "on the road and into her new album Chapter & Verse."

On day two, an album listening event will be held from 3-4 pm, where she encourages fans to tag her in their pictures and videos and "feel like I'm right there with y'all." Barrett shared details on the experience open to the public on her social media channels, which you can view below.

Barrett’s highly anticipated 2024 album, Chapter & Verse, a 14-track collection, follows her 2020 platinum debut Goldmine featuring "I Hope," "The Good Ones," and "Footprints On The Moon."

We caught up with Barrett back in November at the CMA Awards where she told Jeff Kurkijian of the album, “My first album came out during the big year of COVID during 2020, and so this will be released early February 2, 2024. Yeah, called Chapter & Verse. And we’ve got some awesome collabs on it with Miranda Lambert, Luke Combs, Phil Wickham, and [some] Christian artists, and I’m co-producing it, so really leaning into it, making sure that it’s the best it can be.”

Chapter & Verse Track List: 

1. The Chapter
2. Cowboy Back
3. Dance Like No One’s Watching
4. Glory Days
5. Had It All
6. Hard To Read
7. Growin’ Up Raisin’ You
8. Off The Highway
9. You’re My Texas
10. Jesus On A Train
11. Grow Apart
12. God, Money & Love
13. All Of My Life
14. The Verse (Doxology) Feat. Phil Wickham

Gabby Barrett announced earlier this month (11/10) the title and release date for Chapter & Verse – her sophomore album, due out on February 2, 2024. She is calling it her most autobiographical work to date. The latest song release from the project is called "Growin' Up Raising You."

Gabby said of the song, "'Growin' Up Raising You' is a compassionate song for me. 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."

She added, "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."

Chapter & Verse, according to a press release, is a project where Barrett "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 due early next year."

Gabby recently revealed that she co-wrote a song on her new project with Miranda Lambert.

Barrett said in a recent interview, "I wrote a song on the album with Miranda Lambert. That's very fun. And there are so many people in the Nashville community that I haven't gotten to write with that I did this time around. So there's just a lot to look forward to."

During a recent Instagram chat with fans, Gabby said of Lambert, "Miranda's awesome. She's just super laid back and just so chill and nice to be around and very real of a person, which is really nice to see in the industry, especially as a female, being very real and not about the drama and the jealousy and this and that. The song is more of a slower song, and it will be about Texas. That's all I can say."

Barrett released this song independently following her third-place finish on season 16 of American Idol. It led to her signing a deal with Warner Music Nashville. It was released on July 29, 2019, as her debut single and the first from her debut studio album Goldmine. It went all the way to number one.

The song's music video features Gabby as a girl in school and her real husband, Cade, playing her love interest in the video. The video has more than seven million views on YouTube. Barrett co-wrote the song, which is featured as an extended version of the deluxe edition of her debut Goldmine album.

Gabby said of this song when it was released as a single in October of 2023, “I was inspired by my wonderful husband, a Texan when I was writing this one." She added, “‘Cowboy Back’ is all about appreciating the hard-working guys out there with strong values – those who are authentically ‘country.’”

The lyrics of this emotional song say in the song's chorus, "Everybody says that you can't 'til you do
Standing there, staring at the mirror in the room / Tell yourself, 'One more day. One more day, one more shot' / The voices in the night, in your head / Yeah, they'll pay you to quit / He'll tell you that it's hard, 'cause it is / But you can do anything, anything you want to." The music video for the song features her husband, Cade, playing guitar as she sings with a moon in the background.

This number-one song for Barrett, which she co-wrote, was inspired by her husband, Cade Foehner, and was intended to highlight positive relationships, in contrast to the type of story depicted in "I Hope." The music video for the song has been viewed a whopping 61 million times.