Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, video director, and record label owner whose newest album was just released early last month. Previous successes include breaking into Billboard’s Top 40 with her debut release, and then hitting Number 1 on the Billboard Blues chart with her sophomore album. She even had one of her song’s featured in Pixar’s feature film “Cars 3.” All throughout this and next month she is on a tour that will see her do 14 shows throughout eight states. She has over 372 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, where her top five songs have a combined total of more than 40 million streams. And, she has a combined total of more than 55 million video views on her official YouTube channel.
“Sometimes I am so connected to the people that are close to me in my life (that) I’ll end up writing a song about what they’re going through.”
“I kind of generalize things so that somebody doesn’t feel too picked on or too called out in something. Most people, I think, that I’ve written songs about probably don’t know that the songs are about them.”
“Every writer is different; every producer is different when you bring something to them, and what they feel like their time invested into a song should be.”
“When I first started putting out music professionally, I was kind of blending genres together. No one could quite put their finger on what genre I was; a lot of influences in the blues.”
“Dirty Shine… kind of means being who you are, authentically you, and shining while you do it. So, a little dirty around the edges but letting your unique self kind of shine through.”
“…after becoming an independent artist, so, it’s kind of just like this new freedom that I have as far as, I can put out whatever I want now. I have so much freedom to keep putting out music a lot more frequently than I ever have before.”
“I think the hardest part in your career is really the sophomore album, because I feel like – especially if you had a successful first album – there’s a LOT of people, a lot of opinions out there, a lot of pressure, just on what you should do next. I think that’s a very hard point for an artist.”
“A song has to be great for me to even take it in and produce it with a producer. So, I have a certain bar set for everything, that, like, it has to be amazing to me, I have to really believe in the music that I’m creating.”
“I’m a hustler, I’m not afraid to get my hands dirty, I used to sell my CDs in parking lots and play guitar on street corners with my guitar case open, booked shows anywhere I could.”
“I’m pretty real… I think when you’re on a label for so much time you’re so judged to kind of be kind of elusive.”
“It has its ups and downs. I mean, it’s a fight to do what I’m doing. It’s not always a walk in the park.”
“I love being a mother and I love music and neither one of those things will change how much I love the other thing. Like, I have a fire in me for creating music and being on stage and that feels amazing. And I also love being a mom.”
“I’ve been wearing a fedora for a very long time. When I was a kid, I started wearing it because I would get really nervous on stage and it kind of became my cape, like a superhero, to try to kind of, like, be stronger than I felt and be more like the blues artists that I grew up listening to.”
“Any artist throughout history that has longevity has ups and downs. That’s just how it goes. So, you gotta be really careful, I think, that you’re focused on the right things and not the things you can’t control.”
“Forget About Us”
“On One”