Amy Grant talks about new recording project

WITH HER yuletide album 'The Christmas Collection' set for release, Amy Grant spoke recently about her subsequent recording plans. She told Billboard, "I've got a dozen songs that I'm ready to record and I hope to be back in the studio and get at least a few of them recorded before I do [a Christmas] tour. There's a song I wrote about Vince and there's a song that a friend and I wrote when she found her birth mom. 'Shovel In Hand' I wrote on the airplane flying out to the [Academy Of Country Music Awards] in Las Vegas. I was meeting Vince, but I had come from the cemetery watching my son and his friends bury one of their classmates. It's always songs inspired by people in my life."