{"id":16075,"date":"2026-01-10T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16075"},"modified":"2026-01-10T17:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:26:53","slug":"amy-grant-releases-wistful-single-about-jan-6-woodstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16075","title":{"rendered":"Amy Grant releases wistful single about Jan. 6, Woodstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/> By  Jon Brown<span class=\"quiet\">, Christian Post Reporter Thursday, January 08, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Quick Summary<\/h2>\n<p>AI Summary<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul\">\n<li>Amy Grant released a new single reflecting on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and its implications for 1960s ideals.<\/li>\n<li>The song, titled &#8216;The 6th of January (Yasgur&#8217;s Farm),&#8217; questions the loss of direction in society.<\/li>\n<li>Grant emphasizes themes of hope and unrest, drawing criticism for her references to John Lennon&#8217;s &#8216;Imagine.&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"summary-disclosure\">An artificial intelligence-powered tool created this summary based on the source article. The summary has undergone review and verification by an editor.<\/p>\n<p>See <span\/> Summary<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"photo-des\">Amy Grant is a six-time Grammy winning singer who started her career in contemporary Christian music.<\/span> | <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Today<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant released a new single this week that wistfully reflected on whether the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, marked the end of the 1960s idealism supposedly embodied at Woodstock.<\/p>\n<p>In her song &#8220;The 6th of January (Yasgur\u2019s Farm),&#8221; Grant repeatedly asks, &#8220;Where&#8217;s the road to Yasgur&#8217;s farm?&#8221; in reference to the farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel, New York, where the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was held on Aug. 15-18, 1969. The event, which was marked by rampant drug use, nudity and &#8220;free love,&#8221; was considered a pivotal moment in the counterculture of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My new music is out now go and play it on Spotify fans <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pC0bSIjjwc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/pC0bSIjjwc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amy Grant (@AmyGrant371049) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmyGrant371049\/status\/2009239106732351689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 8, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that wide-eyed hope \/ Were we so naive?&#8221; Grant asks in the song, which was introduced to her by Sandy Lawrence, the mother-in-law of Jenny Gill, who is part of Grant&#8217;s family with husband Vince Gill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look ahead and realize we&#8217;ve lost our way,&#8221; says another lyric.<\/p>\n<p>The song also mentions Marvin Gaye, laments the loss of the ideals in John Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Imagine&#8221; and claims the spirit of Woodstock has been &#8220;scattered all to hell and Harper&#8217;s Ferry,&#8221; an apparent reference to the West Virginia town where abolitionist John Brown seized a federal arsenal and attempted to incite a slave insurrection in 1859, inflaming simmering tensions on the eve of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe there is hope to come together and find the way forward through the unrest. I believe in that hope. I hope this song brings you some too,&#8221; Grant tweeted Thursday in promotion of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Grant, who has sold more than 30 million albums and earned six Grammy Awards, recently told USA Today\u00a0that she sees &#8220;unrest&#8221; as one of the major themes of the song.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think sitting with unrest is where we ask important questions. What can I do differently? It can be unrest about anything,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;I can&#8217;t help but see life through the lens of someone born in 1960, and when I see my children and their children, everything is vying for everyone\u2019s attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unrest is the invitation to say, &#8216;What do I have control over, and what choices can I make in the world we live in?&#8217; We have so much power and influence in our own lives,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The politically charged nature of Grant&#8217;s new single and its positive spin on John Lennon&#8217;s anti-Christian worldview drew criticism from some on social media, who suggested it betrays a liberal streak at odds with Grant&#8217;s core audience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amy Grant, who is pro-LGBTQ and hosted a lesbian wedding at her home, is brooding over January 6th \u2014 longing for the days of godless Woodstock and John Lennon&#8217;s &#8216;Imagine&#8217; in the lyrics of her new song. This is who is considered the queen of contemporary Christian music,&#8221; one popular Christian X user wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who believes that Woodstock or John Lennon&#8217;s &#8216;Imagine&#8217; are things to celebrate has, as she sang, truly lost their way,&#8221; said Howell Scott, senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Carlsbad, New Mexico. &#8220;Amy Grant is a prime example of someone following her own way, which, sadly, always leads to destruction. Only Jesus&#8217; Way leads to life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Columnist John William Sherrod said he found Grant&#8217;s new single musically good, but &#8220;hilariously cringe&#8221; lyrically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what Amy Grant&#8217;s full political history is, but while her audience is overwhelmingly conservative Evangelical Boomers and Gen X, she herself has been pretty obviously left of center for a while,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few years ago she hosted a same-sex &#8216;wedding&#8217; for her niece. In her new single she speaks wistfully (and positively) about the lyrics to John Lennon&#8217;s &#8216;Imagine,&#8217; which is a song that is demonically pro-Marxist and anti-Christian. &#8216;Imagine there\u2019s no heaven, it\u2019s easy if you try.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sherrod said Grant&#8217;s single &#8220;pines for an era of hippies and a time when all of politics wore a veneer of &#8216;respectability&#8217; that she doesn&#8217;t understand was always a mask. January 6th is blamed for shattering that political myth for her, and she desperately wants to return to a pre-Trump era where you can bankrupt the country and send thousands of American soldiers to their deaths in the Middle East sands as long as you don&#8217;t compose mean tweets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Grant prompted rebuke from Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham in 2023 when she defended hosting her niece&#8217;s same-sex wedding at her farm in Franklin, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never chase any of those rabbits down the rabbit hole,&#8221; Grant said at the time in response to criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my family, I love those brides. They&#8217;re wonderful, our family is better, and you should be able to be who you are with your family, and be loved by them,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. 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