Carrie Underwood
If you've ever been curious about what sold an artist on a hit song, a pair of new albums will pique your curiosity even more.
Like, what did
Carrie Underwood hear when she first fell in love
with
"Jesus, Take the Wheel"? Or when
Rascal
Flatts played the demo for
"Bless
the Broken Road" or when
Lee Ann Womack discovered
"I
Hope You Dance"?
Original Songwriter Demos, due on Warner Bros. Nashville on Oct. 19,
includes
two volumes of such songs before they became hits, performed by the songwriters who wrote them. Executive producer Scott
Hendricks said, "These are the exact recordings the artists heard, fell in love with and consequently made into the hits we
all know today." Other tracks include the demo for
Miranda Lambert's
"The House That Built Me" and songs later recorded
by
Garth Brooks,
Kenny
Chesney,
Martina McBride,
Tim
McGraw and
LeAnn Rimes, among many others.
