About This:

"The Gathering of Spirits" is Carrie's first studio recording in two years and certainly is worth the wait--many will say, it is the definitive album of her career. The title track features a beautiful harmony vocal by the renowned Alison Krauss, and the entire album is lush with piano, violin, cello, mandolin and other acoustic instruments. Long-time producer-engineer Mark Williams joined Carrie in co-producing this album, which is perhaps best described in her own words: "This is a quieter, more acoustic album than my past few releases. I seemed to have an outpouring of music in the months after 9/11. These songs are not about that event in particular, but they do reflect what I was thinking about during those months. It's an album about courage and change, about perseverance and bewilderment, tenderness and anger; it's about being shaken to the core and where I stand, what we've lost and what lasts."