Valentine’s Day is little more than a month away, and guys who might be trying to figure out an economical gift that’s a little different from the usual box of chocolates or floral bouquet might want to take a look at the new Vince Gill compilation, Love Songs.

Set for release Jan. 26, the disc features 14 songs about romance, including “You And You Alone,” “Let’s Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye,” the Grammy-winning “When Love Finds You” and “Whenever You Come Around,” a song Vince was inspired to write about Amy Grant, who became his wife several years later.

Their tenth anniversary comes up March 10, and the couple is on the cover of the new edition of Good Housekeeping, where Amy suggests he is as a husband what he seems to be in his songs. He’s never in a hurry to get through a conversation or to give a cursory kiss, and the time he takes is a key to the happiness they still find in the marriage.

“I think the quality of our relationship — the romance in it — it’s him,” Amy tells the magazine. “I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man. You can’t make a man be romantic. You can’t make him slow down if he doesn’t want to slow down.”

For his part, Vince still has to keep himself in check in the relationship. He’s “grateful,” he says, that he gets to spend time with Amy, but he’s careful not to take all of her time even 10 years after they said I do.

“We talk several times a day,” he told Good Housekeeping. “I want to. I find myself going, ‘I don’t want to call her too much, or she’ll think I’m nuts.’ But it’s when I feel safest, when I’m talking to her.”

Vince has been writing songs for his next project, he told Guitar International. In the meantime, he makes a guest appearance on the next Mary Chapin Carpenter album, The Age Of Miracles, according to The Tennessean. That project is due April 27.

Folks in Nashville can see him Saturday at the Grand Ole Opry. Among those joining him in the lineup that evening at the Ryman Auditorium: Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris and the Del McCoury Band.

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