[Editor’s Note: To our local (NE Tennessee, SW Virginia) readers. Don’t miss Gabby Barrett at The Appalachian Fair on Thursday Night, Aug. 27. Reserved seating is on sale now. Rememberl your admission to the fair gets you into the grandstand for Gabby’s 8 p.m. show.]
MULTI-PLATINUM Country star Gabby Barrett returns with her stunning new song “In On It,” out now via Warner Records Nashville. Her first new music of 2026, the life-affirming epic offers much-needed reassurance to all those living in uncertainty. Go here to listen to “In On It” now.
Written by Jon Nite, Jimmy Robbins, and Jimi Bell, “In On It” takes a compassionate look at maintaining faith when life fails to make sense. Over the course of the tearful but triumphant track, Barrett shares a series of vignettes centered on people in moments of profound struggle: a farmer overwhelmed by economic hardship, a single mother fighting to keep her family afloat, a sick child contemplating heaven from his hospital bed. In a powerful display of her vocal prowess, Barrett masterfully transforms the song’s hard truths into a deeply felt anthem of hope and perseverance. Whether it’s a dream that feels out of reach, a relationship that ended unexpectedly, or a season that refuses to make sense, ‘In On It’ speaks to the universal tension between wanting answers and learning to trust without them.
Produced by her longtime collaborator Ross Copperman, “In On It” intensifies its emotional force with a potent arrangement of searing guitar tones, hard-driving drums, and sorrowful fiddle melodies (courtesy of multi-award-winning virtuoso Jenee Fleenor). After tenderly narrating the song’s tales of tested faith, Barrett’s voice takes on a gorgeously soaring urgency at the chorus: “Keep betting on a dream even when you can’t win on it / Keep holding on when you’re way out on a limb on it…Lift up your hands and put an ‘Amen’ on it / God’s got a plan even if you ain’t in on it.” Cresting with a cathartic bridge that lifts away all doubt (“Just ’cause you don’t see it, don’t mean you won’t make it through”), “In On It” ultimately delivers an unforgettable reminder that no one is meant to shoulder life’s burdens alone.
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Fresh off singing “America the Beautiful” at the NASCAR San Diego Cup Series last Sunday (6/21), Barrett is getting set to co-headline Music on the Mountain tomorrow night (6/27) in Detroit Lakes, MN. As part of her busy summer touring schedule, she’ll also hit the road with Parker McCollum next month, beginning on July 24 at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. For more info on upcoming tour dates, visit gabbybarrett.com. One of Country music’s defining voices of her generation, Barrett first broke through with “I Hope” — a 9X PLATINUM smash that appeared on her PLATINUM-certified 2020 debut album Goldmine and later landed at No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Hot Country Songs of the 21st Century. Since the arrival of her acclaimed 2024 sophomore album Chapter & Verse, Barrett has continued to showcase her singular voice on powerhouse releases like “The Easy Part” (an unapologetic breakup anthem that premiered last August) and “Ain’t Supposed to Be” (a heart-racing love song released in October). |
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