Recorded on-location in Alabama at the 4th Lake Martin Songwriters Festival, this Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player has a new single coming out soon. She has written for and had major label cuts with other artists, and in 2020 signed her first publishing deal. At the end of this month she will open for Terri Clark at the Ryman Auditorium and in September and October she will open for Ian Munsick in Colorado, New Mexico, and Idaho. She has even performed at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville.
“When you do move to town, and you break into the songwriting community you start writing a lot of songs. You write Monday through Friday and sometimes that's with people that you are familiar with and you've kind of established a creative relationship already and sometimes it's people that you have never met. You have no idea who they are, and you walk into a room and you say, ‘Hey, nice to meet you,’ and then it's like, ‘Okay, tell me about what you're going through. What's your latest, you know, traumatic event that happened’.”
“Ultimately the goal is to go in every single day and come out with a great song. That doesn't happen always. It actually doesn't happen, at least for me, the majority of the time.”
“It takes a lot of decent songs to get a good song and it takes a lot of good songs to get a great song.”
“Somebody told me when I moved to town, ‘You better make sure you love it, because it's not going to love you back’.”
“I grew up on a big horse ranch and I still feel like a bad day of writing songs is better than a good day of cleaning stalls.”
“Art is also subjective, so what is a good song to you or to me might not be the most successful.”
“Once I picked up that guitar and started learning, I could not put it down. So, we were in Texas, I was playing all the time.”
“In a freak accident got bucked off and broke my elbow and that was very nerve-wracking to me at the time because I had my first full band gig the next day and was like, ‘How am I gonna do this,’ but went to the ER and got a cast and got some pain meds and went to band rehearsal and played the gig the next day.”
“When I am my best it's when I flip that coin over and that looks like peace and a little bit of resilience and never give up and ultimately the hope that the good guy still wins in the end.”
“It's one thing to hear what Nashville thinks about something; it's another thing to hear what the rest of the world thinks about something, and I value that so much.”
“Drunk Thoughts”