Songfacts®:

• Released on January 6, 2026 - exactly five years after the January 6 United States Capitol attack - "The 6th of January (Yasgur's Farm)" contrasts that turbulent day in Washington, DC with the muddy, peace-and-love optimism of Woodstock, held on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. Rather than being a political polemic, the song poses a universal question: have we all lost our way? Amy Grant asks how we can sit in the unrest of the world without rushing to fix it, and whether the wide-eyed hopefulness of the Woodstock generation was naïve or worth reclaiming.
• Throughout the song, Amy Grant listens to a '60s and '70s playlist. She journeys through a grocery store hearing a Muzak version of John Lennon's "Imagine" and picturing Lennon "spinning in his Strawberry Fields" in disbelief. On the drive home, Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" plays on the radio, and a metaphorical question - "Is it right on red or left on MLK?" - encapsulates the sense of collective disorientation. The chorus's refrain, asking the way to Yasgur's Farm, is both literal and metaphorical: can we get back to that spirit of hope?
• "The 6th of January (Yasgur's Farm)" opens Grant's 10-song album The Me That Remains, her first collection of all-original songs in 13 years: her previous original album, How Mercy Looks from Here, was released in 2013.
  
  "We are all trying to find our way," said Grant. "This song is the beginning of my story of sitting in unrest and growing throughout. It's not just the beginning of the stories of 'me' but how we can become a 'we.'" She added: "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."
• The song was written by Sandy Lawrence (credited as Sandra Emory Lawrence), a Nashville songwriter and friend of Grant's. Lawrence introduced the song to Grant just before she left on a West Coast tour, showing up at her door holding a strumstick - a three-stringed folk instrument.
  
  "My suitcase is in the front hall, and I opened the door, and there was Sandy holding a strumstick," Grant told USA Today. "She wanted to play a song for me and I said, 'I'm leaving for the airport, but let's go to the bedroom, and I can film it on my phone.' I was so intrigued by the strumstick and the song that when I came back (from the tour), I asked her if I could record it."
• The track was produced by Mac McAnally, a multiple CMA Musician of the Year and inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (2007). McAnally is renowned as both a performer and producer, with credits spanning Alabama, Jimmy Buffett, and Ricky Skaggs. He went on to produce Grant's full album, The Me That Remains, co-writing the title track with her.
• The album title comes from a poem Grant wrote while recovering from a traumatic brain injury after a 2022 cycling accident. "The 6th of January (Yasgur's Farm)" sets the tone: a reflection on healing, confusion, and the faint but persistent hope that somewhere, metaphorically speaking, there's still a road sign pointing toward Yasgur's farm.