Amy Grant explores 'How Do We Get There From Here' on new duet with Ruby Amanfu

New single, released on anniversary of Nashville’s Covenant school shooting, calls for unity, compassion & collective action

√ Final preview from Grant’s album, ‘The Me That Remains,’ due May 8; listen here / watch music video here

Press release

Ahead of her first album of original songs in over a decade, six-time Grammy Award-winner and 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree Amy Grant has released a new single, “How Do We Get There From Here” featuring and co-written with two-times Song of the Year Grammy Award nominee, recording artist, songwriter and producer Ruby Amanfu. Written in the wake of the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville, and released exactly three years later, the song wrestles with grief, accountability, and the urgent question of how to move forward – not just in the aftermath of tragedy, but within an increasingly divided world.

“Could any of this fighting be worth these children’s lives?” Grant asks in the song’s powerful lyrics, coupled with Amanfu adding, “When the ink dries on our story / What will history reveal / Will we have been part of the problem / Or a part of how we heal?”

What began as a response to one devastating moment has grown into a broader reflection on the challenges of finding common ground in a fractured society – asking how people with differing perspectives can still come together in pursuit of a shared good.

In the wake of the Covenant school shooting, Grant and Amanfu joined a coalition of artists – including Sheryl Crow, Allison Russell and Margo Price – in calling on the Tennessee General Assembly to address gun reform. When those efforts stalled, Grant found herself returning to a central question: How do we move forward together when agreement feels out of reach?

“After six beautiful people, including a longtime friend of mine, were killed in the Covenant school shooting, several artists met with legislators in Nashville,” Grant said. “In the wake of that gridlock, we kept asking ourselves, how can we identify and reach a common goal? How can we move beyond what divides us? Unity is not sameness. Unity is standing together in spite of our differences. Ruby and I hope our song, ‘How Do We Get There From Here,’ can fan the flame of hope to create a safer space for all of us to push beyond our differences for the greater good.”

“Linking arms with Amy Grant to co-write ‘How Do We Get There From Here’ was born out of the knowledge that sometimes-forward motion can feel like walking through mud in boots too big for our feet … but we still have to take a first step, then another, and another after that,” Amanfu added. “Those steps are made easier when we do it together, hand in hand. Our song is a call to come together on an issue that has divided our nation – but an issue that we have to do more about because the truth is that doing little to nothing hasn’t kept us safe. Rather, it’s allowed the distance between us to grow wider, and the consequences of that are something we’re all living with now. Sometimes the hardest thing is sitting down and talking with someone we disagree with. This song asks a simple but really difficult question: What would happen if we chose compassion first? Could it open a door that has been barricaded shut on both sides? Could we take down one brace at a time until the door finally opens?”

WATCH:

Listen to “How Do We Get There From Here” (feat. Ruby Amanfu) here.

“How Do We Get There From Here” (feat. Ruby Amanfu) is the final advance single ahead of Grant’s new album, “The Me That Remains,” due out May 8 via Thirty Tigers. Produced by 10-time CMA Award winner and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Mac McAnally, the album finds Grant leaning fully into her strengths as a songwriter and taking a clear-eyed look at where she stands personally, spiritually and creatively today. 

Across its 10 tracks, the album reflects on healing, connection, endurance and grace, shaped by the life experience of a beloved musician now more than 50 years into a groundbreaking career. Grant previewed the album with early singles “The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm),” a meditation on unity and perspective inspired by the idealism of the Woodstock era; and “The Me That Remains,” the album’s emotional centerpiece, which reflects directly on the profound health challenges Grant has faced in recent years, including open heart surgery and a life-altering bike accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury.

Visually, “The Me That Remains” album artwork reflects the album’s themes of memory and reconstruction. Grant commissioned artist Wayne Brezinka to create the cover as a mixed-media collage assembled from meaningful fragments of her life – including pieces of a quilt she has long treasured, seashells from her collection, her childhood Bible, and an article about her grandfather – layering her history directly into the portrait.

“The older I get, the more aware I am that we all live long enough to see versions of ourselves pass away,” Grant said. “Given time to process decades of a life – one that was both exciting and difficult – I’ve needed to remember and release the younger Amy Grant. There are fewer bells and whistles around this deeper work now, but life’s discoveries and mysteries are even more compelling to me. I’m thankful for each day and curious to find connection and purpose, and how the love that made us all will emerge and express itself in and through me today.”

Now 65, Grant remains a singular figure in American music. She has garnered over 2.2 billion global streams, sold more than 30 million albums, and became the first artist in contemporary Christian music to achieve a Platinum record, reach No. 1 on the pop charts, and perform at the Grammy Awards. A trailblazer whose career has spanned church pews to arena stages, she returns with a record rooted in hard-won perspective, and in the strength of the woman who remains.

“The Me That Remains” will be released May 8 (via Thirty Tigers) on vinyl, CD and across streaming platforms. Additionally, there will be exclusive offerings including orange vinyl for Indie Record Stores, turquoise vinyl for Talk Shop Live, and an exclusive CD with bonus tracks via Amazon. Preorder and save here.

Grant has announced “A New York Evening with Amy Grant” on April 15 at the Greene Space, in partnership with the Grammy Museum and the Americana Music Foundation. The evening will include a conversation on the upcoming album plus an intimate performance. Click here for tickets and more information. Grant has also announced an album release show at the Ryman Auditorium on May 8. For all upcoming tour dates, visit https://www.amygrant.com.