By revisiting an early triumph, Taylor Swift has reunited a Grammy-winning duo. To celebrate the lead up to Swift’s career-spanning “The Eras Tour,” the music megastar digitally released four tracks at midnight last night. Those tunes include a remake of “Safe & Sound,” her double-platinum Grammy-winning “The Hunger Games” soundtrack collaboration with pop-folk hit-makers The Civil Wars, which featured singer/songwriters John Paul White and Joy Williams.

On the 2023 redux, White and Williams are credited individually instead of as The Civil Wars. Reportedly, White, a longtime Muscle Shoals area resident, and Williams recorded their new parts separately. You can listen to the re-recorded version of “Safe & Sound” below.

Back in the early 2010s when the original “Safe & Sound” was cut, Swift was still a country-focused sensation and not yet the world-dominating pop mastermind she evolved into with her 2014 mega-selling “1989″ album. The dramatic “Safe & Sound” became a top 30 pop hit. Being in “The Hunger Games,” the Jennifer Lawrence-starring box-office dominating adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ young adult books, elevated the already ascendant Swift’s profile.

In a 2019 interview, AL.com asked White what was like cowriting with Swift back then. “I was instantly struck,” White said, “by how focused and driven and meticulous she was. She didn’t micromanage the song, but she just had a really good sense of what the song needed, not only to make us happy but to connect with people who were fans of that movie franchise, because it was for ‘The Hunger Games.’ The first movie hadn’t come out yet, but we had the books and were fans. It surprises me in no way the heights that she’s achieved, because she’s a very driven, strong, intelligent person that I could see running through any wall that was put in front of her.

The Civil Wars first broke big with their Grammy winning 2011 debut album “Barton Hollow,” which dripped with Southern gothic imagery and emotional lyrics and vocals. Three years later the group broke up. The cracks were showing well before then. A run of fall 2012 shows was cancelled “”due to internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition.”

The Civil Wars’ signature song, “Poison & Wine,” has been streamed more than 140 million times on Spotify. The duo released their last album, self-titled “The Civil Wars,” in 2013.

Since The Civil Wards broke up White launched a critically acclaimed solo career and cofounded Shoals-based label Single Lock Records. On April 6, White will perform with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $25 and up plus fees via alysstephens.org.

In 2016, Williams made her acting debut in Cameron Crowe’s Showtime TV series “Roadies,” has released solo albums and collaborated with the likes of The National frontman Matt Berninger, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams (no relation) and late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell.

The “Safe & Sound” remake is the latest in Swift’s “Taylor’s Version” releases. The other three tracks in the new drop include remakes of her 2010 song “If This Was A Movie” and 2012′ “Eye’s Open” and the previously unreleased “All Of The Girls You Loved Before,” said to be an outtake from Swift’s 2019 album “Lover.”

Swift’s “The Eras Tour” kicks off March 17 at Glendale, Arizona’s State Farm Stadium. Her Southeastern tour dates include April 28-30 at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium and May 5-7 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. Complete list of tour dates at taylorswift.com.

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