A singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a single in July and is about to put out another new song. Plus, she has an EP that will be coming out at the start of 2023. She even has a Christmas song coming out as well. On Spotify she has an impressive eleven-and-a-half thousand monthly listeners. She has been building her music career between Nashville and Texas, including moving back and forth between the two, as she talks about here. Music is in her family, as her father is a GRAMMY-nominated hit songwriter.
“Music is kind of a therapeutic thing for me. It helps me get feelings or emotions out. And so sometimes when I write something, I feel like once I write it and once I get it out, I don’t harbor ill will towards anything.”
“I do believe that some of the best songs in the world come from honest places.”
“What I’ve been told, at least, is that if you release a single at a time, it keeps people’s attention a little bit longer because if you’re releasing a new song maybe every month or every other month then those seven songs have turned into seven months of being able to release music rather than just one time.”
“The year that I was born (her dad) got his first cut and I believe it was on Terri Clark for ‘This Ole Heart’.”
“I feel blessed that I did choose to do music. Honestly, my dad didn’t really push me to do music ‘cause he knew how hard the business was.”
(in college) “I found myself, rather than studying or rather than doing homework or whatever, I wanted to write songs and I was spending so much time playing music. I’d been playing music and writing songs since I was a little bitty kid. I started writing songs when I was about nine (years old).”
“I had some meetings with some different companies like Universal and BMG and different places and I was in the process of figuring out if I wanted to be a published songwriter, if I wanted a publishing deal, if I was trying to go for that or trying to go for a record deal. And I think I learned that that’s not really the route that I necessarily wanted to take.”
“I think people are always chasing the dream and they’re chasing the possibility of what could happen if they do get a number one song.”
“What I love about doing music in Texas is that I get to be completely in control over the kind of music that I’m putting out, the band that I put together, what venues I play, when I don’t play, when I do play, and I think that’s really all that I have wanted out of music.”
“I had American Idol reach out to me a couple years ago and they wanted me to be on the show… I did the audition, and they were, ‘You’re going to Hollywood’ all this stuff. Well, I then started having one of the producers calling me all the time leading up to doing this and the first time she called me she said, ‘I need to talk to you. We think that you’re putting a fake accent on your voice when you sing, and we need you to just be more country’.”
“I sent the (American Idol) contract to my lawyer and he was like, ‘This is a terrible contract. You’re gonna totally get screwed over. And then, them wanting you to change who you are as an artist, you don’t do that’.”
“I can tinker on a piano and on a ukulele but for the most part I always write everything on the guitar.”
“You’re Gonna Be Your Mama”
“Dive Bar Superstar”