Apple Music Introduces Sessions With Carrie Underwood, Tenille Townes

<p>Apple Music is premiering Apple Music Sessions&comma; exclusive live releases featuring some of the world’s most prolific artists and emerging artists&comma; all in Spatial Audio&period; Recorded out of Apple Music’s studios around the world&comma; Apple Music Sessions gives artists the opportunity to reimagine and recreate hits from their catalog&comma; and creative covers of beloved classics&period; These unique performances are also filmed&comma; resulting in a special&comma; bespoke live collection comprised of brand-new Spatial Audio tracks and companion live performance music videos that will all be available exclusively to Apple Music fans worldwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple Music Sessions officially launches today with releases from Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes&comma; recorded out of Apple Music’s new state-of-the-art studios in Nashville&comma; TN&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During her session&comma; Underwood performed her hit &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Ghost Story&comma;” as well as a stripped-back version of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Blown Away&comma;” and a cover of Ozzy Osbourne’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mama&comma; I’m Coming Home&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Being in the studio with Apple Music was such an incredible experience&comma; and I’m excited to share these unique&comma; stripped-down versions of three songs I love with my fans&comma;” Underwood said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We had a lot of fun reimagining these big&comma; visual songs and presenting them in a different way&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have always been an Ozzy Osbourne fan and &OpenCurlyQuote;Mama&comma; I’m Coming Home’ is one of my all-time favorite songs&comma;” Underwood continued&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve always thought it felt a lot like a country song&comma; and I’ve wanted to cover it for a long time&period; This was a really fun opportunity for me to be able to finally make that happen&period; I hope we’ve done Ozzy proud and I hope he likes it&period;” <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Country singer-songwriter Tenille Townes performed her hits &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Same Road Home” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Somebody’s Daughter&comma;” as well as a gritty&comma; soulful cover of Etta James’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;At Last&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It was so cool capturing the spirit of how it feels to play my songs live with my band during the Apple Music Sessions performance&comma;” Townes said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The new space feels like it’s going to become an anchor for our music community in Nashville&comma; and it was an honor to be a part of breaking it in&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I chose &OpenCurlyQuote;Same Road Home’ because I really love the message in the song of us all being more alike as humans than we often realize&comma;” she continued&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&OpenCurlyQuote;Somebody’s Daughter’ is one of those songs that has grown with us as a band for the past couple of years&comma; and it was really fun to showcase our live version of it&period; And &OpenCurlyQuote;At Last’ is a song that sets the bar to me as a writer and a singer&period; I’ve never recorded a version of it before&comma; and I loved getting to include it in my Apple Music Sessions&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple Music Sessions kicks off in Nashville with a host of incredible country artists already lined up&comma; including Ronnie Dunn&comma; Ingrid Andress&comma; and many others&comma; and Apple also plans to expand the series into other genres of music in the future&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;2915" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-2915" style&equals;"width&colon; 482px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;jpq&period;a9a&period;mytemp&period;website&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;07&sol;Apple-Music-Sessions-performance-Carrie-Underwood-Hero&lowbar;photogrid&period;jpg&period;large&lowbar;&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"482" height&equals;"642" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-2915" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-2915" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Carrie Underwood performs&period; &lpar;Photo courtesy of Apple&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;

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