Gabby Barrett On Welcoming Baby No. 3: ‘It’s Changed My World’

Gabby Barrett and her husband Cade Foehner have welcomed their third child together, a daughter, Ivy Josephine Foehner. The new bundle of joy entered the world in the early morning of Saturday, February 17 at home.

Barrett shared the news via Instagram on Saturday with an adorable photo of Ivy Jo's precious feet with the caption "Another life to love and cherish. Praising God for his kindness." The new addition joins her daughter, Baylah May Foehner, and son, Augustine Boone.

"I just love them so much and it's changed my world in the best of ways. They just make life kind of complete for me and that's definitely what I'm supposed to be doing is being a mother and, making sure that they are my priority," Barrett said.

Most recently, the 23-year-old released her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Chapter & Verse, which includes the lead single, "Glory Days," and "Cowboy Back," inspired by her wonderful husband. The 14-track collection follows her 2020 platinum debut Goldmine featuring “I Hope,” “The Good Ones,” and “Footprints On The Moon.”

Chapter & Verse, an album three years in the making, tells the story of Barrett's current chapter in life as a Christian, a mother, a wife, a songwriter, and an artist, along with "all the little verses that happen in between, according to a recent Instagram post.

Barrett continued, "So I'm going to take a little bit of maternity leave for the baby, but then I'll be popping up in spaces, and then we're going to do a tour later in the year. Next year, probably like the end of summer into fall we're going to bang it out and be able to jam with everybody."

Now, she has a house full of kids, and the singer-songwriter says she wouldn't trade it for the world. While Barrett continues to make plans for 2024 and share her new album with the world, she says the kids do not steal the joy from any of that.

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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.