Recorded on-location at the Pensacola Beach Songwriters Festival with this Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who two years ago this month won the Josie Music Award for Folk/Americana Single of the Year. Last year she signed with SmashFarm Management and performed in December 2023 as part of an event that featured Ashley McBryde and Thompson Square, among others. In addition to northwest Florida, she has been on the road of late, including eleven shows in South Carolina in August as well as having played in May down at the Key West Songwriters Festival. She released a single early this year and has another new song on the way.
“(I’m) just an artist in general. Because I have so many different influences that come into my music that I find it very hard to find a home. I'm just creating art, that's all.”
“She continued to teach me through middle school and high school and instilled a ton of confidence in me about my voice and my talent and taught me so much, taught me how to sing, how to protect my voice, how to support it.”
“My whole time in Nashville is, the things that have happened to me and the people that I've met since I've been there have really solidified my choice to move.”
“A lot of things have fallen into place and have brought me a lot of clarity in making that decision to pursue something that is really difficult to chase and it's never going to chase you back.”
“As I got older, and I got into high school I always kind of felt like I was separated from my peers in some way. I couldn't really figure out how to connect with a lot of them and I got all of that sort of frustration out, I think, through starting to write songs.”
“She was able to get us a slot opening up for the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. So, because of her, we all got that opportunity to do a tour of Radio City Music Hall and go up on stage and sing there, which was incredible, and we got to do a workshop with two Broadway actresses, and we performed songs for them, and they would critique us.”
“I think that the person that I am now I developed a lot in those four years that I was in school because I was able to get involved in a lot of programs there at Clemson. I played in a cover band for four years and I sang in a jazz ensemble… I did minor in music, so I was able to get involved in the choirs there and sang in an Acapella group and ended up accidentally taking jazz guitar, which influences a lot of what I do now.”
“He taught me a lot about different voicings of chords, which is something that I use a ton now in my songwriting and it kind of just cracked my brain open a little bit.”
“I think (Nashville) is a lot more than that; it's just such a hub for the music industry in general, so many people that are influential in that business, that's where they live now.”
“Everybody remembers how scary it was when they first got (to Nashville), so the majority of the time they try to be really helpful when somebody new comes into town and they're trying to put some writes together and make some friends and get on a writers round here or there.”
“I think there is a lot to be learned sitting with your own thoughts and trying to piece things together. And I would advise anybody that's moving (to Nashville) not to (co-write) because you feel like you have to. That's the beautiful thing about music and art is there's no right way to do it. You got to do it however is most authentic to you and what you're trying to create.”
“Symptomatic Daydream”
“Sweet Fool”