An interview recorded on-location in Alabama at the 4th Lake Martin Songwriters Festival, this guest is a Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who just put out a seven-song release less than three weeks ago. She has been featured by Rolling Stone, NPR, CMT, and more, and her music has gotten over 650 thousand streams on all platforms AND been featured on Spotify and Apple Music playlists. So far this year she had three songs featured in the film, “God’s Country Song” AND had a music video debut on CMT. She has performed at notable venues, including the famous Bluebird Café up in Music City.
“I feel like the music industry itself is kind of like a roller coaster of a ride.”
“It's so easy to compare yourself in Nashville. It's so easy to think about what you don't have, and, you want what you're chasing after instead of just looking at what you have and being grateful, like, God put me here for a reason right now and I should just be grateful for what today holds.”
“I like recording a project all at once. I know at the moment Nashville is very big on – and even L.A. – very big on recording one song, putting that out … but I think it's cool to record all at once and making it a cohesive project, branding-wise, color-wise, but also song-wise and the message of the project in general.”
“I write, like, four days a week, so there's a lot of songs that people don't hear… I love playing shows in town in Nashville because when you play a writer's round you can play songs that no one's heard.”
“I remember after that show I was like, ‘I love this, like, I love performing. It's really fun and I love to sing’.”
“I was just sitting there, and I just had this moment and this feeling, like, ‘This is what I want to do’ and ‘How do I do this?’ After that I asked people, if that's what I want to do, what do I do? And they said move to Nashville.”
“I graduated from college and then moved to Nashville and I lived with a family friend for a few months to figure out where I was gonna live and it was kind of just like starting fresh. I had to figure out, like, what is co-writing? What is actually, like, the structure of a song? … My first few years were kind of like figuring that out.”
“Sometimes I'm writing and I come to a point where I'm like, ‘Okay, I need to go experience more life right now. I need things to write about’.”
“As a songwriter, the more you write, especially if you write every day in Nashville, you hear the song so much that you're tired of hearing them by the time that – because recording is a such a long process – by the time you record and it's been like three or four years or whatever time, since you've written it you've written better songs.”
“(Nashville has) taught me more about myself and who I want to be not only like as an artist but a person.”
“Dandelions”
“Love & Texas”