Carrie Underwood's gospel album 'My Savior' includes songs she used to sing in church

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Carrie Underwood is celebrating the release of her first gospel music album.

On Friday, the seven-time Grammy winner dropped "My Savior" on which she recorded songs she used to sing in church while growing up in Oklahoma. 

Underwood told the Associated Press her faith has always been at the core of her music.

"I'm lucky enough that I feel like I've been making spiritual music along the way in my career," said the three-time Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year. "I love the sassy stuff and I love to get an attitude and get dressed up and do all that stuff. But it’s so nice to be able to sing songs like this."

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Underwood said she used the pandemic to really focus on making this new album. Besides "My Savior," she also recorded her Christmas album "My Gift" in 2020. 

"It’s such a great time to just really slow down and be super intentional about what I’m doing," Underwood said. "It’s not about the bigger, better thing. It’s about the smaller thing, the thing that’s inside of me."

This image released by Capitol Nashville shows "My Savior" by Carrie Underwood, released Friday, March 26. (Joseph Llanes/Capitol Nashville via AP))

Among classic hymns like "How Great Thou Art" and "Amazing Grace," Underwood also sought to bring a fresh sound, such as the acoustic rock-inspired "Nothing But the Blood of Jesus" that features a duet from Bear Rinehart from NEEDTOBREATHE. Gospel icon CeCe Winans joins Underwood on "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" with vocal runs that soar to the heavens.

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Underwood also wanted to record "Softly and Tenderly," a hymn that brought her and the crowd to tears when she sang it at the Country Music Association Awards show in 2017 during the in memoriam segment that also honored victims of the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest festival. The performance was so emotional that even Underwood struggled to finish singing.

"In that moment that I sang that song, I feel like it provided such a peace in the room and it allowed everybody to be emotional and to be stirred inside themselves," Underwood said.

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Underwood will perform the new album during a livestream event from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, on Easter Sunday via her Facebook page. Donations raised during the event will benefit Save the Children.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.