Bart Millard tells Billboard how Vince Gill came to guest on album

THE FRONTMAN with popular band MercyMe, Bart Millard spoke to Billboard magazine about his new album 'Hymned Again'. As well as such songs as "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms", "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" and "I Saw The Light", there is one new tune, "Jesus Cares For Me" which Millard co-wrote with Thad Cockrell. Millard originally intended to do the song as a duet with Cockrell but when country star Vince Gill came in to sing harmony on the track, things changed. Millard told Billboard, "Vince loved it and I was sitting there thinking that Vince's voice would kill on this song. So I called Thad and said, 'Here's the deal: do you want to be singing on my record or would you like a song that you wrote to have Vince Gill singing on it?' And he said, 'Are you kidding me? I want Vince to sing on the song!'"