This is the track list for their forthcoming album "Bigger" (their first major joint release for about eight years)
1. “Bigger” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
2. “On A Roll” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
3. “Let Me Remind You” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
4. “Mother” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
5. “Still The Same” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
6. “Lean It On Back” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
7. “Babe (featuring Taylor Swift)” | Taylor Swift, Pat Monahan
8. “Bird In A Cage” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
9. “Love Me Like I’m Leaving” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles, Tim Owens
10. “Tuesday’s Broken” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
11. “Not The Only” | Kristian Bush, Jennifer Nettles
Their last album was experimental (One track, "Stuck Like Glue", did well on Country radio, but, for me, that proved a too chirpy novelty song, with a Caribbean influence that I felt didn't really show either musician at their best ). For my part, I prefer Jennifer on soulful ballads, and Kristian on Rock. On the whole, that last album release struck me as generally more in sympathy with the group's origins, on the Atlanta Alternative scene, in a musical sphere dominated by the Indigo Girls - so I would expect most of their new work to continue in broadly the same direction, rather than being closer to Mainstream Country.
The new disc will include "Babe", a song that Taylor Swift co-wrote with Patrick Monahan, of Train (who had also collaborated in other work with Ashley Monroe, and been covered in concert by the Dixie Chicks). They wrote "Babe" about five years ago, in Taylor's "Red" album era - which contained what I consider some of her best work, albeit in a pretty mixed (and, as it proved, transitional) output. "Babe" had not been recorded earlier, so it's taken up as a new release by Sugarland. Taylor herself joined them to sing n the choruses
