Jennifer Nettles Interview: Sugarland Star Talks Reimagined Classics for 'Always Like New' Album
At the height of the pandemic last year and amid a time our favorite artists bared their heart’s pain through music, country singer and songwriter Jennifer Nettles released her tender, tear-jerking single for her rendition of “Tomorrow,” the beloved show tune from Annie. Fast forward a year later, and the Grammy-award-winning musician and artist extraordinaire is back with her album Always Like New, where she fuses country and Broadway music for a record that speaks truest to her heart. With a background in musical theatre, the fourth studio album from Nettles might seem like a homecoming with tracks from some of Broadway’s best, including classics to contemporary.
In an exclusive with PopCulture.com's Tania Hussain, Nettles about her record in light of the news, New York’s famed Broadway is finally reopening this fall, the 46-year-old Georgia native reveals how the album was a dream in the making and one she always wanted to make, but never got the chance. “It’s been a long time coming artistically and vocally and musically, no pun intended,” Nettles laughed. “But the timing, specifically, then after it was recorded, for now, is not lost on me. Again, the symbolism of Broadway reopening, the world softly reopening in a way that we can go out and celebrate the things that we love again and I hope this record is included in that.”
