This week's Makin' Tracks highlights the making of the new Cody Johnson/Carrie Underwood collaboration 'I'm Gonna Love You.'
It’s a classic love song, steady and true, delivered so crisply by its A-list vocalists that its unconventionality goes almost unnoticed.Songs chart dated Oct. 12 with “I’m Gonna Love You,” blessed by a Randy Travis-like forever-and-ever lyric, applied to a musical foundation that blends several classic styles.
“I’m Gonna Love You” took a long time to make it from creation into the public sphere, owing its earliest seeds of inspiration to the 2016 Dixie Chicks tour. They worked on it until at least 5:30 p.m., building it sequentially with steady-and-true focus. The opening verse explored the dependability of the universe, with its stars, sun and moon. Verse two brought the story into Earth’s atmosphere, with birds, snow and April rain. In its finale, they narrowed the lens even further on the song’s couple, noting that even as the pair grows gray and weathered, its bond will remain firm.
“It brought in another layer of depth to what the message was in the song, and not even necessarily religiously,” Denning says. “Like, when I think of a Bible verse, I think of tradition; I think of the test of time.” “I’m Gonna Love You” was one of the three songs Denning recorded for a demo that helped him secure a recording deal the next year with Mercury Nashville. Early on, he boldly asked if Underwood would join him on a duet version — “They gave me the nicest answer of ‘no’ ever,” he says — and it got pitched separately to her as well.
Producer Trent Willmon cut it in two different keys in March 2023, and Underwood FaceTimed into the studio during the session to listen. She picked the lower key, a choice that would cast her voice in a new way. “ voice has this sultry, Aretha Franklin-type quality to it in this key,” Johnson says. “I thought it was a piece of Carrie that we haven’t seen yet.”
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