Overview
- Amy Grant, in Thursday’s NPR Wild Card interview, recalled Vince Gill urging her to “take the hand you’re dealt” and “live the life that you get.”
- She suffered a traumatic brain injury in a July 2022 Nashville bike crash, was unconscious for about 10 minutes, and was hospitalized for a concussion and other injuries.
- The accident led doctors to find a throat cyst that went into rapid growth and was removed in a five-hour surgery, which forced her to relearn parts of singing.
- Grant says she still deals with short-term memory lapses and balance problems and has described a bout of depression, and her manager postponed a fall tour to let her rebuild stamina.
- After returning to the stage in 2023, she wrote the songs that became The Me That Remains, a May 8 Thirty Tigers release that features Gill and marks her first LP in a decade.