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• Lauren Daigle channels her grandmother's voice in this song, singing about the loss of her husband of 60 years. "They were inseparable," Daigle said during a set at Nashville's famed The Bluebird Cafe. "They met going to Europe and came back on the Queen Elizabeth."
• Daigle co-wrote "You're All I'll Take With Me" with Grant Pittman, Daniel Sauls and her producer Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Fiona Apple, Carrie Underwood). "Lyrically, you guys were so kind because I had lost my grandfather," she told her co-writers. "I remember getting in the room and one of y'all said, 'What about loss?'... I just remember that being a sobering thought, but also the anchor point."
• "You're All I'll Take With Me" is the closing track of Lauren Daigle's self-titled fourth album. Elizondo pushed the singer both vocally and creatively while working on her record. In fact, she didn't realize she was singing certain parts of this song when she heard it played back for the first time.
  
  "I said to him, 'Oh my gosh, that girl sounds so good. Who did you get to come and do that stuff?' And he's like, 'Lauren, that is you,'" Daigle recalled with a laugh. "That is a testament to how far out of myself this guy got me in the writing in the creation process. He brought me to places that my voice has always longed to go to, and I just didn't know how to get there. And he was the vehicle for that. Sometimes you have to get out of your own way in the process of making things and he shepherded me through that experience."
• Mike Elizondo also contributed handclaps and played the synthesizer and bass. The other musicians are:
  
  Emmanuel Echem: trumpet
  Desmond Ng: trombone
  Evan Cobb: saxophone
  Philip Towns: Hammond B3 organ, clavinet, piano. claps
  Nate Smith: drums, percussion, claps
  Max Townsley: electric guitar, claps, background vocals
• Lauren Daigle is the singer's first album released through Atlantic Records and her first mainstream pop record. The decision to self-title the album nods to the progress she's made. "It's because it took those records to find my voice," Daigle said. "The voice that I can stand on in front of people and say, 'This is what I love! I love this sound.'"
  
  Daigle added that she was pumped up, drawing inspiration from the live studio musicians. "It's old-school, but it's the place I come so alive," she said.