A singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist who just put out a new single last month after having also released a new song in May, plus she has a new EP coming soon. She is a regular performer at the famed Bluebird Café in Nashville and has shared the stage with the late Charlie Daniels, opened for The Chicks, and performed on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. One of her songs on Spotify alone has been streamed more than two-and-a-half million times and her new music video has approximately eleven thousand views on YouTube in its first month. She has written hundreds of songs in her career, including doing so for other artists as well.
“To be totally honest I think so much of whether a song hits or not is just luck and random.”
“I was on a label at the time and so my label pushed it to a (Spotify playlist) curator, and they really liked it and I just got lucky that somebody somewhere in high places liked it.”
“I sing all my background vocals, so, I love to create background vocal arrangements. I was a choir kid growing up and that’s really where I thrive. And then I usually play most of my string arrangements, so, violin and viola, and then keyboard pads. I play, most of the time, all my keyboard parts, piano parts, and, very occasionally, will I play a guitar part.”
“I grew up a part of the Carter family… I’m also a cousin of June Carter Cash and when I was young, I was lucky enough to know her and Johnny Cash and I got to even play violin for them when I was, like, ten years old.”
“I started my career as Anne Buckle, which is my given name, and a few years in morphed into the stage named Wildwood, which was a way to honor my family and their song ‘The Wildwood Flower’.”
“My goals as a songwriter have also shifted and I just want to again find the most authentic voice and create art that is real.”
“I knew that I wanted to study abroad in France. So, I did that, and I spent six months in Paris when I was 20.”
“The real diplomacy, the real human connection, happens through art.”
“I love traveling and to this day I try to get to a new country every year. I went back to France this summer for three weeks just to work on my language. And it’s just a huge passion of mine and all that stuff fuels the creative ideas as well.”
“I always just try to serve the song as best I can.”
“I do a lot of teaching in Nashville, especially with the Country Music Hall of Fame doing songwriting sessions with school groups.”
(pandemic) “In a time when a lot of people felt isolated and lonely, I was actually more connected than ever.”
“If you want to have a shot at having a song with an artist, you have to write with them. It’s not always the case, but especially for up-and-coming writers… you’re probably not going to get your song heard by anybody or plugged by anybody in 2022.”
“Songwriting has always been and still is therapy for me. It’s how I process. It’s journaling.”
“Collateral”
“Break Me”