A trio who released a twelve-song album at the end of August, with one of the songs featuring a recent NHTE guest. They had also released a ten-song album exactly two years earlier. This episode was recorded at the 37th Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival in Alabama where they did multiple shows. Plus, they’d also have performances coming up in Tennessee and Texas and had recently performed in South Carolina, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana and more. They were named Mississippi’s Songwriters of the Year and this year were inducted into CMT’s Next Women of Country Class of 2021. The three vocalists are Danica Hart - known for her work on the GRAMMY-nominated "Spyboy" album - along with her sister Devynn Hart and their cousin Trea Swindle.
(Danica) "As a lot of songwriters know, sometimes when it gets translated down and by the time you add the music and the writers and the production and the, after everything gets added to it, sometimes you lose a little bit in where the moment was when you first wrote it."
(Trea) "In 2021 everyone's like, 'No one puts out albums, everyone releases singles. Like, what're you doing?' But we wanted, like, just a cohesive body of work that you can literally sit down, press Play, and by the time you get to track number twelve you feel like you know us."
(Devynn) "Not that we don't care, of course we always take advice from people who've been in the industry and stuff like that. But we're like, if it's in our heart and we really feel it, it's like regardless of what people tell us, we're going to do it."
(Devynn) "Trusting your gut is key in this business, I think. That's probably been one of the biggest lessons I've learned."
(Trea) "It seems like every time we do the thing that would've quote unquote been (career) suicide, it kind of just gave us a whole new life."
(Trea) "Disrupting the status quo is kind of like our m.o. now. It's just what we do, and it works!"
(Danica) "(Our booking agent) calls us... and he said... 'I sent it to Billy (Gibbons)' and he said, 'He said it's one of the freshest things that he's heard in a decade.' (Billy) listened to some more music and he told (the booking agent), 'Look, whatever these girls need, let me know. I want to help them out'. And Billy flew from L.A. to Nashville to come be a part of our music video."
(Danica) "I think that that's one of the writing styles that makes us so unique, is that whatever comes out of the heart and comes on the paper is what we give to the people."
(Devynn) "When I joined the band three years ago, it was rough, because there was this thing, it's like, me, one of my biggest problems was I didn't know how to separate personal from business. And I think when you work with your family or friends you have to be able to distinguish between the two."
(Danica) "Everything is sacrifice until you get to the big leagues. It doesn't pay off until it pays off hugely."
(Trea) "In 2019 we headlined the New Orleans Festival in Innsbruck, Austria. And in 21 years they'd never had a female group -- any kind of female -- to headline the festival and they've never had a country act to headline the festival."
"You Can Have Him Jolene"
"The Girls are Back in Town"