Reba McEntire has been making records for over 40 years, and it’s hard to believe that her album she’ll release next month, Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope, is the very first gospel album she’s ever recorded.  It’s something she’s thought about for a while and she says, “Two friends of mine, one of my managers from the past, Bill Carter, kept talking to me about doing a gospel album.  And then Tony Brown, who was one of my producers, kept, in conjunction with Bill, saying, ‘Reba, you’ve gotta do a gospel album.’  And I said, ‘Well, alright.’  And so it was their encouragement and me having so many songs that I had kind of hoarded on my computer that I’d been wanting to record for a while, that was my encouragement and my inspiration to do a gospel album.”

Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope will be a two-disc collection that will be released on February 3rd, featuring ten traditional hymns of faith on one CD, and 10 contemporary Christian songs of hope on the second disc, including a song co-written by Dave Barnes, Lucie Silvas and Jeremy Spillman called “Hallelujah Amen.”

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Reba – inspiration for gospel album  :27

“Well, two friends of mine, one of my managers from the past, Bill Carter, kept talking to me about doing a gospel album.  And then Tony Brown, who was one of my producers, kept, in conjunction with Bill, saying, ‘Reba, you’ve gotta do a gospel album.’  And I said, ‘Well, alright.’  And so it was their encouragement and me having so many songs that I had kind of hoarded on my computer that I’d been wanting to record for a while, that was my encouragement and my inspiration to do a gospel album.”