Recorded on-location in Nashville with a singer, songwriter, guitar player who just released a duet of “O Holy Night” with Jay Allen. She had also released two singles earlier in 2023 and her Spotify Wrapped numbers for this year show well over 900 thousand streams of her music on that platform alone. Just announced is that she will be part of country superstar Lee Brice’s tour in February and March. Early 2024 will also mark the release of a duet with another A-lister that she reveals during this interview. She has earned numerous accolades including being named Artist to Watch by People Country Magazine, New Artist to Watch 2023 by Holler Magazine, and Nashville Music Guide’s Artists to Watch 2023, among numerous others.
“I just have this way of finding my way into (writing) rooms that I’m not sure how I got there.”
“As a songwriter, in this town, everyone is so creative and brings in their own narratives and their own stories, and it just isn’t very often for me that I’m sitting and writing a song – with co-writers or by myself – that is just strictly my narrative and my life and what I’m going through at the time.”
“Some things you don’t want to romanticize, ya’ know, some things are just hard, and some things, just, you don’t want to have to go through.”
“I think if you decide to be a songwriter and you decide to be a songwriter who cares about what they’re saying, I don’t think you get to compartmentalize your life.”
“I think being a solo opener on a solo acoustic tour where you have this audience that is fully engaged in what you are doing, I think (opening for Lee Brice) will be one of our largest opportunities to really capitalize on an audience and show them who Allie is.”
“I think just naturally as humans you feel how you feel, so I don’t really know how to encourage somebody to not be nervous or to not be anxious because I think that that means that you care. I think that’s beautiful. I don’t think you should lose that.”
“Don’t sell yourself short on the small crowds and don’t freak out about the big crowds, and just enjoy yourself. This is a very cool ride. Every single part of it.”
“I don’t remember a time in life when I didn’t want to do this, and that music wasn’t my world and my intent and my sole focus.”
“Jelly Roll has really made his presence this year in the commercial world of country music, at least… I wrote this song hoping that Jelly would want to be a part of it. So, Jelly’s not a writer on this. I would love him to be. We’ve kind of offered him some space in the track to add to it, if he would like to, for him to do a real, real Jelly, like, lyric feature. But he’s already claimed the second verse, which is my favorite verse also… I’ve really enjoyed the process of recording with him.”
“Growing up in Oklahoma and writing by myself all the time and then you move to (Nashville) and it’s like, there are so many other narratives than just mine to add to these beautiful songs that we’re writing.”
“We just talk about it, we figure it out, and it’s always different. There’s really no method to the madness, aside from just madness. There’s always madness.”
“I think silence is the loudest thing on this planet.”
“While We’re Still Friends” (featuring Lee Brice)
“O Holy Night” (duet with Jay Allen)