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Ashley, welcome to Birmingham.
Thank you, first time to Birmingham.
Yeah, first time.
So last time we saw you was C2C, well the day after C2C I think, at the
borderline.
You're kind of exploring the UK this week a little bit, going on tour,
playing some new places, so how much are you looking forward to exploring a bit
more of the UK?
I'm loving it, I've never really ridden trains before, which
sounds so silly being in this part of the world, we just don't have trains in
Tennessee, and I've loved it, being able to see more of the countryside while
we're going from place to place, and I had a day off the other day and I
should have done more, but I was so jet-lagged that I slept till like
two o'clock in the afternoon, it's starting to even out just a little bit.
Well talk to us a little bit about that C2C trip, because I know you'd never been
out the country before, before that C2C trip.
Yeah, my first experience out of the
country, and [G] I knew that the fans here were going to be amazing, but I didn't
realise how, I want to say rabid, but like how starving they seem to be for,
they're just crazy about it, they're crazy about not just country music, but
any [N] kind of Americana singer-songwriter, anything that's the art of writing a
song and the art of performing it.
I saw you on BBC Breakfast the other day, and you were saying
that by the second day of C2C you had like 200 photos or something.
Yeah, at
first it was just here and there, you know the first day was, you know, would
you [G] take a photo with me, and then the next day, do you fancy a photo, was the
number one sentence I heard all day, and I'll say yes every [Eb] time.
Well we get this
kind of reaction from a lot of artists that play at C2C, and it's like, are the
crowds just not the same at home, do they not embrace it the same, or what is it?
I think we take a lot for granted, because there's just so much [G] music back at home, and
[Em] it's done on such a huge scale all [G] the time, you kind of become immune to it a
little bit, not that we don't appreciate it, we do, but I think we can take it for
granted a lot.
And you're on tour with Luke this week, Mr Combs.
Yes, back with Luke.
You've been on the road with Luke in the States, so what's it even like to share the
stage with him?
I know he was just messing around.
Yeah, that's pretty normal, he's a great dude, he really took good care of us, we were out, it was our first time to be out [Bb] for 30, 40 days without going home, so he was really gentle, and his whole crew has [N] been really gentle with us, teaching us, you know, like about truck stop, laundromats, and things like that, and then as far as the venues and the shows, they're just such great dudes, it doesn't matter what we need, they're ready to help us.
That's awesome, and you've been doing some headlined acts as well on the Girl Going Nowhere tour, and I saw you did a sold-out show in Nashville last week.
We did, we sold out the marathon.
We had sold out of 500 caps, and then moved it up to the marathon, and I wasn't sure we would sell it out, but we did.
It was really incredible.
To play a show at home is different, and a Nashville crowd doesn't usually sell out a venue, because we have so much of it to go to all week, every week, so it was awesome.
Are you finding that the fans have kind of picked out certain favorites from the album on the road?
Are there certain songs that go down really well?
Yeah, and it wasn't necessarily the ones that I thought it would be.
Southern Babylon, people are screaming it from the audience, and I'm like, really?
I didn't think that would be a favorite.
That and I'm living next to Leroy.
Yeah, [Ab] that's amazing.
And which of the focus was, they're on the live shows when you're recording the album, because I mean, songs like El Dorado, [B] I feel like they're made for these kind of big shows.
We had kind of developed less of an album, but more like a set list, and then we just [G] rehearsed that set list for three days, and then went in and played the show down, played about half the show down, and did it two or three times, and then the next night we came in and played the other half of the show down two or three times, so it really is geared towards a live show.
Yeah, and you played at Red Rocks not too long ago as well.
Yeah, bucket [A] list.
Yeah, well, we went to visit Red Rocks in the summer, and we were just overwhelmed by the place, so to play there.
The size of the, just the rocks.
Yeah, it's [D] amazing.
And the scenery is just insane.
Everything is up a flight of stairs, and [G]
it was on my bucket list to even go there, and my bass player said it was on his bucket list too, but he wasn't going to go there until we played there.
Right.
So there we were on that stage, and Little Big Town was awesome for having us out.
Yeah, and you also played at the ACM Honors not too long ago at the Ryman, so tell us a little bit about that, because you did a little tribute, didn't you?
Yeah, and so, you know, you had the ACMs, you had the ACM Honors, and I'm like, I don't, I'm so green at a lot of the awards stuff, I was like, I don't know what these things are.
They're like, it's an awards show, and John Party was a host and Lauren Alaina, and they said you're going to get, you get to honor Maitreya Seberg with Lauren Alaina [Db] and Dina Carter, and I'm a huge Maitreya Seberg fan.
[G] So I thought, you know, it's going to be great to be able to honor her and present her with an award, and then I got to meet her and hug her neck, and that resulted in she and I get to write together in November.
Wasn't Maitreya Seberg one of the first shows you ever went to in Nashville?
Yes, yeah, it was at the Hall of Fame lounge there in Nashville, and a friend of mine drove up from Memphis, and we went to watch Maitreya Seberg just her and a guitar, and I don't want to sound like an insult, it's not, but I'm kind of awkward just inherently, and she talked about that.
She's like, you know, we're [G] songwriters, we're kind of strange people, it's okay to be strange, it's okay to be strange into a microphone if you want to.
[Abm] She's just, I don't know, she's a big hero.
[Db] That's lovely when you put these people on a kind of pedestal, and then you meet them and it's everything you expect them to be.
But tell us a little bit about the news you had from Garth Brooks not too long ago, because this is really, really exciting.
It is exciting.
Huge exposure for Girl Going Nowhere.
Yeah, when he first texted me, I didn't believe it was him.
[A] And so I got to talk to him on the phone, and of course it was him, and we just kind of chit-chatted about two songs, Bible in a [Eb] 44 and Girl Going Nowhere.
[N] And in the middle of the night, it was probably 2am, and I got a phone call, or a text message, it was a video from way up in the nosebleeds at the Tacoma show, and it was Garth [B] doing Guy Going Nowhere.
And we've kept in touch here and there over the whole process, and he let us know that he was going to release it on the [Bb] live record.
Wow.
And I heard you mention that Girl Going Nowhere's going to radio, am I right?
It's going to go to radio.
So what was the thinking behind [Gbm] that, and why do you think it was a great fit for the next single?
We had chosen Radioland as the second single, and it didn't do what we wanted that song [G] to do.
And there was just so much going on on the chart at the time, and it's such a weird world, and I try not to understand it.
And we thought, you know what, we should just, instead of trying to shove this song up a chart, we should just go with this song that gets the most response every night.
And we're just going to let it do what it's going to do.
[Db] And like Dahlonega, it may grow legs and run around, and we're just going to let it be organic.
Well, fingers crossed it gets to where it deserves to be.
Thank you.
It's one of the best songs of the last four or five years, easily for me.
So what's on the horizon for the rest of the year now in terms [G] of new music?
Are you working towards a new project and writing with people?
Yeah, well we started picking out the stuff for the second record the day after we finished the first record, which is awesome.
Because there were [G] so many songs that deserved to be on the first record that didn't make it.
And of course, like children, you love all your children, you want them all to have an equal opportunity.
So we do have a pile of about probably 25 songs.
We need 50 to go through.
So I get time in 2019 to take time off and try to clear your brain.
I had no idea this was a thing, road brain, where you can't even form sentences correctly sometimes, much less try to create music.
So I get to take time off.
It's the thing I'm most excited [A] about.
Yeah, and you've got some writing sessions set up, haven't you?
Oh yeah.
Jen Wayne from Runaway June.
Jennifer Wayne, Travis Meadows, Matresa Berg, Laura Belz, who wrote I Could Use A Love Song.
I got to honour she and Maren doing that song at a publishing award ceremony too.
[Abm] So that's how Laura and I hooked up and man, she's a fantastic writer.
Well, we look forward to hearing [Ab] some new music at some point in the future.
I can't wait to create it.
But before we finish, I've got to ask you, is there any plans to come back to C2C at some point?
[G] You know, I think they're announcing that next week.
Right.
And so when [C] they do, it's a good chance.
[G] It's a good chance you're going to see [Bb] my name and the whole band gets to come.
That would be awesome.
Well, Ashley, thank you for joining us.
Of course.
And we'll catch up with you next time.
Hopefully at C2C.
Of course, absolutely.
And maybe not in a tiny room.
Yeah, that'd be [N] nice.
Thank you, first time to Birmingham.
Yeah, first time.
So last time we saw you was C2C, well the day after C2C I think, at the
borderline.
You're kind of exploring the UK this week a little bit, going on tour,
playing some new places, so how much are you looking forward to exploring a bit
more of the UK?
I'm loving it, I've never really ridden trains before, which
sounds so silly being in this part of the world, we just don't have trains in
Tennessee, and I've loved it, being able to see more of the countryside while
we're going from place to place, and I had a day off the other day and I
should have done more, but I was so jet-lagged that I slept till like
two o'clock in the afternoon, it's starting to even out just a little bit.
Well talk to us a little bit about that C2C trip, because I know you'd never been
out the country before, before that C2C trip.
Yeah, my first experience out of the
country, and [G] I knew that the fans here were going to be amazing, but I didn't
realise how, I want to say rabid, but like how starving they seem to be for,
they're just crazy about it, they're crazy about not just country music, but
any [N] kind of Americana singer-songwriter, anything that's the art of writing a
song and the art of performing it.
I saw you on BBC Breakfast the other day, and you were saying
that by the second day of C2C you had like 200 photos or something.
Yeah, at
first it was just here and there, you know the first day was, you know, would
you [G] take a photo with me, and then the next day, do you fancy a photo, was the
number one sentence I heard all day, and I'll say yes every [Eb] time.
Well we get this
kind of reaction from a lot of artists that play at C2C, and it's like, are the
crowds just not the same at home, do they not embrace it the same, or what is it?
I think we take a lot for granted, because there's just so much [G] music back at home, and
[Em] it's done on such a huge scale all [G] the time, you kind of become immune to it a
little bit, not that we don't appreciate it, we do, but I think we can take it for
granted a lot.
And you're on tour with Luke this week, Mr Combs.
Yes, back with Luke.
You've been on the road with Luke in the States, so what's it even like to share the
stage with him?
I know he was just messing around.
Yeah, that's pretty normal, he's a great dude, he really took good care of us, we were out, it was our first time to be out [Bb] for 30, 40 days without going home, so he was really gentle, and his whole crew has [N] been really gentle with us, teaching us, you know, like about truck stop, laundromats, and things like that, and then as far as the venues and the shows, they're just such great dudes, it doesn't matter what we need, they're ready to help us.
That's awesome, and you've been doing some headlined acts as well on the Girl Going Nowhere tour, and I saw you did a sold-out show in Nashville last week.
We did, we sold out the marathon.
We had sold out of 500 caps, and then moved it up to the marathon, and I wasn't sure we would sell it out, but we did.
It was really incredible.
To play a show at home is different, and a Nashville crowd doesn't usually sell out a venue, because we have so much of it to go to all week, every week, so it was awesome.
Are you finding that the fans have kind of picked out certain favorites from the album on the road?
Are there certain songs that go down really well?
Yeah, and it wasn't necessarily the ones that I thought it would be.
Southern Babylon, people are screaming it from the audience, and I'm like, really?
I didn't think that would be a favorite.
That and I'm living next to Leroy.
Yeah, [Ab] that's amazing.
And which of the focus was, they're on the live shows when you're recording the album, because I mean, songs like El Dorado, [B] I feel like they're made for these kind of big shows.
We had kind of developed less of an album, but more like a set list, and then we just [G] rehearsed that set list for three days, and then went in and played the show down, played about half the show down, and did it two or three times, and then the next night we came in and played the other half of the show down two or three times, so it really is geared towards a live show.
Yeah, and you played at Red Rocks not too long ago as well.
Yeah, bucket [A] list.
Yeah, well, we went to visit Red Rocks in the summer, and we were just overwhelmed by the place, so to play there.
The size of the, just the rocks.
Yeah, it's [D] amazing.
And the scenery is just insane.
Everything is up a flight of stairs, and [G]
it was on my bucket list to even go there, and my bass player said it was on his bucket list too, but he wasn't going to go there until we played there.
Right.
So there we were on that stage, and Little Big Town was awesome for having us out.
Yeah, and you also played at the ACM Honors not too long ago at the Ryman, so tell us a little bit about that, because you did a little tribute, didn't you?
Yeah, and so, you know, you had the ACMs, you had the ACM Honors, and I'm like, I don't, I'm so green at a lot of the awards stuff, I was like, I don't know what these things are.
They're like, it's an awards show, and John Party was a host and Lauren Alaina, and they said you're going to get, you get to honor Maitreya Seberg with Lauren Alaina [Db] and Dina Carter, and I'm a huge Maitreya Seberg fan.
[G] So I thought, you know, it's going to be great to be able to honor her and present her with an award, and then I got to meet her and hug her neck, and that resulted in she and I get to write together in November.
Wasn't Maitreya Seberg one of the first shows you ever went to in Nashville?
Yes, yeah, it was at the Hall of Fame lounge there in Nashville, and a friend of mine drove up from Memphis, and we went to watch Maitreya Seberg just her and a guitar, and I don't want to sound like an insult, it's not, but I'm kind of awkward just inherently, and she talked about that.
She's like, you know, we're [G] songwriters, we're kind of strange people, it's okay to be strange, it's okay to be strange into a microphone if you want to.
[Abm] She's just, I don't know, she's a big hero.
[Db] That's lovely when you put these people on a kind of pedestal, and then you meet them and it's everything you expect them to be.
But tell us a little bit about the news you had from Garth Brooks not too long ago, because this is really, really exciting.
It is exciting.
Huge exposure for Girl Going Nowhere.
Yeah, when he first texted me, I didn't believe it was him.
[A] And so I got to talk to him on the phone, and of course it was him, and we just kind of chit-chatted about two songs, Bible in a [Eb] 44 and Girl Going Nowhere.
[N] And in the middle of the night, it was probably 2am, and I got a phone call, or a text message, it was a video from way up in the nosebleeds at the Tacoma show, and it was Garth [B] doing Guy Going Nowhere.
And we've kept in touch here and there over the whole process, and he let us know that he was going to release it on the [Bb] live record.
Wow.
And I heard you mention that Girl Going Nowhere's going to radio, am I right?
It's going to go to radio.
So what was the thinking behind [Gbm] that, and why do you think it was a great fit for the next single?
We had chosen Radioland as the second single, and it didn't do what we wanted that song [G] to do.
And there was just so much going on on the chart at the time, and it's such a weird world, and I try not to understand it.
And we thought, you know what, we should just, instead of trying to shove this song up a chart, we should just go with this song that gets the most response every night.
And we're just going to let it do what it's going to do.
[Db] And like Dahlonega, it may grow legs and run around, and we're just going to let it be organic.
Well, fingers crossed it gets to where it deserves to be.
Thank you.
It's one of the best songs of the last four or five years, easily for me.
So what's on the horizon for the rest of the year now in terms [G] of new music?
Are you working towards a new project and writing with people?
Yeah, well we started picking out the stuff for the second record the day after we finished the first record, which is awesome.
Because there were [G] so many songs that deserved to be on the first record that didn't make it.
And of course, like children, you love all your children, you want them all to have an equal opportunity.
So we do have a pile of about probably 25 songs.
We need 50 to go through.
So I get time in 2019 to take time off and try to clear your brain.
I had no idea this was a thing, road brain, where you can't even form sentences correctly sometimes, much less try to create music.
So I get to take time off.
It's the thing I'm most excited [A] about.
Yeah, and you've got some writing sessions set up, haven't you?
Oh yeah.
Jen Wayne from Runaway June.
Jennifer Wayne, Travis Meadows, Matresa Berg, Laura Belz, who wrote I Could Use A Love Song.
I got to honour she and Maren doing that song at a publishing award ceremony too.
[Abm] So that's how Laura and I hooked up and man, she's a fantastic writer.
Well, we look forward to hearing [Ab] some new music at some point in the future.
I can't wait to create it.
But before we finish, I've got to ask you, is there any plans to come back to C2C at some point?
[G] You know, I think they're announcing that next week.
Right.
And so when [C] they do, it's a good chance.
[G] It's a good chance you're going to see [Bb] my name and the whole band gets to come.
That would be awesome.
Well, Ashley, thank you for joining us.
Of course.
And we'll catch up with you next time.
Hopefully at C2C.
Of course, absolutely.
And maybe not in a tiny room.
Yeah, that'd be [N] nice.
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Ashley, welcome to Birmingham.
Thank you, first time to Birmingham.
Yeah, first time.
So last time we saw you was C2C, well the day after C2C I think, at the
borderline.
You're kind of exploring the UK this week a little bit, going on tour,
playing some new places, so how much are you looking forward to exploring a bit
more of the UK?
I'm loving it, I've never really ridden trains before, which
sounds so silly being in this part of the world, we just don't have trains in
Tennessee, and I've loved it, being able to see more of the countryside while
we're going from place to place, and I had a day off the other day and I
should have done more, but I was so jet-lagged that I slept till like
two o'clock in the afternoon, it's starting to even out just a little bit.
Well talk to us a little bit about that C2C trip, because I know you'd never been
out the country before, before that C2C trip.
Yeah, my first experience out of the
country, and [G] I knew that the fans here were going to be amazing, but I didn't
realise how, I want to say rabid, but like how starving they seem to be for,
they're just crazy about it, they're crazy about not just country music, but
any [N] kind of Americana singer-songwriter, anything that's the art of writing a
song and the art of performing it.
I saw you on BBC Breakfast the other day, and you were saying
that by the second day of C2C you had like 200 photos or something.
Yeah, at
first it was just here and there, you know the first day was, you know, would
you [G] take a photo with me, and then the next day, do you fancy a photo, was the
number one sentence I heard all day, and I'll say yes every [Eb] time.
Well we get this
kind of reaction from a lot of artists that play at C2C, and it's like, are the
crowds just not the same at home, do they not embrace it the same, or what is it?
I think we take a lot for granted, because there's just so much [G] music back at home, and
[Em] it's done on such a huge scale all [G] the time, you kind of become immune to it a
little bit, not that we don't appreciate it, we do, but I think we can take it for
granted a lot.
And you're on tour with Luke this week, Mr Combs.
Yes, back with Luke.
You've been on the road with Luke in the States, so what's it even like to share the
stage with him?
I know he was just messing around.
Yeah, that's pretty normal, he's a great dude, he really took good care of us, we were out, it was our first time to be out [Bb] for 30, 40 days without going home, so he was really gentle, and his whole crew has [N] been really gentle with us, teaching us, you know, like about truck stop, laundromats, and things like that, and then as far as the venues and the shows, they're just such great dudes, it doesn't matter what we need, they're ready to help us.
That's awesome, and you've been doing some headlined acts as well on the Girl Going Nowhere tour, and I saw you did a sold-out show in Nashville last week.
We did, we sold out the marathon.
We had sold out of 500 caps, and then moved it up to the marathon, and I wasn't sure we would sell it out, but we did.
It was really incredible.
To play a show at home is different, and a Nashville crowd doesn't usually sell out a venue, because we have so much of it to go to all week, every week, so it was awesome.
Are you finding that the fans have kind of picked out certain favorites from the album on the road?
Are there certain songs that go down really well?
Yeah, and it wasn't necessarily the ones that I thought it would be.
Southern Babylon, people are screaming it from the audience, and I'm like, really?
I didn't think that would be a favorite.
That and I'm living next to Leroy.
Yeah, [Ab] that's amazing.
And which of the focus was, they're on the live shows when you're recording the album, because I mean, songs like El Dorado, [B] I feel like they're made for these kind of big shows.
We had kind of developed less of an album, but more like a set list, and then we just [G] rehearsed that set list for three days, and then went in and played the show down, played about half the show down, and did it two or three times, and then the next night we came in and played the other half of the show down two or three times, so it really is geared towards a live show.
Yeah, and you played at Red Rocks not too long ago as well.
Yeah, bucket [A] list.
Yeah, well, we went to visit Red Rocks in the summer, and we were just overwhelmed by the place, so to play there.
The size of the, just the rocks.
Yeah, it's [D] amazing.
And the scenery is just insane.
Everything is up a flight of stairs, and [G]
it was on my bucket list to even go there, and my bass player said it was on his bucket list too, but he wasn't going to go there until we played there.
Right.
So there we were on that stage, and Little Big Town was awesome for having us out.
Yeah, and you also played at the ACM Honors not too long ago at the Ryman, so tell us a little bit about that, because you did a little tribute, didn't you?
Yeah, and so, you know, you had the ACMs, you had the ACM Honors, and I'm like, I don't, I'm so green at a lot of the awards stuff, I was like, I don't know what these things are.
They're like, it's an awards show, and John Party was a host and Lauren Alaina, and they said you're going to get, you get to honor Maitreya Seberg with Lauren Alaina [Db] and Dina Carter, and I'm a huge Maitreya Seberg fan.
[G] So I thought, you know, it's going to be great to be able to honor her and present her with an award, and then I got to meet her and hug her neck, and that resulted in she and I get to write together in November.
Wasn't Maitreya Seberg one of the first shows you ever went to in Nashville?
Yes, yeah, it was at the Hall of Fame lounge there in Nashville, and a friend of mine drove up from Memphis, and we went to watch Maitreya Seberg just her and a guitar, and I don't want to sound like an insult, it's not, but I'm kind of awkward just inherently, and she talked about that.
She's like, you know, we're [G] songwriters, we're kind of strange people, it's okay to be strange, it's okay to be strange into a microphone if you want to.
[Abm] She's just, I don't know, she's a big hero.
[Db] That's lovely when you put these people on a kind of pedestal, and then you meet them and it's everything you expect them to be.
But tell us a little bit about the news you had from Garth Brooks not too long ago, because this is really, really exciting.
It is exciting.
Huge exposure for Girl Going Nowhere.
Yeah, when he first texted me, I didn't believe it was him.
[A] And so I got to talk to him on the phone, and of course it was him, and we just kind of chit-chatted about two songs, Bible in a [Eb] 44 and Girl Going Nowhere.
[N] And in the middle of the night, it was probably 2am, and I got a phone call, or a text message, it was a video from way up in the nosebleeds at the Tacoma show, and it was Garth [B] doing Guy Going Nowhere.
And we've kept in touch here and there over the whole process, and he let us know that he was going to release it on the [Bb] live record.
Wow.
And I heard you mention that Girl Going Nowhere's going to radio, am I right?
It's going to go to radio.
So what was the thinking behind [Gbm] that, and why do you think it was a great fit for the next single?
We had chosen Radioland as the second single, and it didn't do what we wanted that song [G] to do.
And there was just so much going on on the chart at the time, and it's such a weird world, and I try not to understand it.
And we thought, you know what, we should just, instead of trying to shove this song up a chart, we should just go with this song that gets the most response every night.
And we're just going to let it do what it's going to do.
[Db] And like Dahlonega, it may grow legs and run around, and we're just going to let it be organic.
Well, fingers crossed it gets to where it deserves to be.
Thank you.
It's one of the best songs of the last four or five years, easily for me.
So what's on the horizon for the rest of the year now in terms [G] of new music?
Are you working towards a new project and writing with people?
Yeah, well we started picking out the stuff for the second record the day after we finished the first record, which is awesome.
Because there were [G] so many songs that deserved to be on the first record that didn't make it.
And of course, like children, you love all your children, you want them all to have an equal opportunity.
So we do have a pile of about probably 25 songs.
We need 50 to go through.
So I get time in 2019 to take time off and try to clear your brain.
I had no idea this was a thing, road brain, where you can't even form sentences correctly sometimes, much less try to create music.
So I get to take time off.
It's the thing I'm most excited [A] about.
Yeah, and you've got some writing sessions set up, haven't you?
Oh yeah.
Jen Wayne from Runaway June.
Jennifer Wayne, Travis Meadows, Matresa Berg, Laura Belz, who wrote I Could Use A Love Song.
I got to honour she and Maren doing that song at a publishing award ceremony too.
[Abm] So that's how Laura and I hooked up and man, she's a fantastic writer.
Well, we look forward to hearing [Ab] some new music at some point in the future.
I can't wait to create it.
But before we finish, I've got to ask you, is there any plans to come back to C2C at some point?
[G] You know, I think they're announcing that next week.
Right.
And so when [C] they do, it's a good chance.
[G] It's a good chance you're going to see [Bb] my name and the whole band gets to come.
That would be awesome.
Well, Ashley, thank you for joining us.
Of course.
And we'll catch up with you next time.
Hopefully at C2C.
Of course, absolutely.
And maybe not in a tiny room.
Yeah, that'd be [N] nice. _
Thank you, first time to Birmingham.
Yeah, first time.
So last time we saw you was C2C, well the day after C2C I think, at the
borderline.
You're kind of exploring the UK this week a little bit, going on tour,
playing some new places, so how much are you looking forward to exploring a bit
more of the UK?
I'm loving it, I've never really ridden trains before, which
sounds so silly being in this part of the world, we just don't have trains in
Tennessee, and I've loved it, being able to see more of the countryside while
we're going from place to place, and I had a day off the other day and I
should have done more, but I was so jet-lagged that I slept till like
two o'clock in the afternoon, it's starting to even out just a little bit.
Well talk to us a little bit about that C2C trip, because I know you'd never been
out the country before, before that C2C trip.
Yeah, my first experience out of the
country, and [G] I knew that the fans here were going to be amazing, but I didn't
realise how, I want to say rabid, but like how starving they seem to be for,
they're just crazy about it, they're crazy about not just country music, but
any [N] kind of Americana singer-songwriter, anything that's the art of writing a
song and the art of performing it.
I saw you on BBC Breakfast the other day, and you were saying
that by the second day of C2C you had like 200 photos or something.
Yeah, at
first it was just here and there, you know the first day was, you know, would
you [G] take a photo with me, and then the next day, do you fancy a photo, was the
number one sentence I heard all day, and I'll say yes every [Eb] time.
Well we get this
kind of reaction from a lot of artists that play at C2C, and it's like, are the
crowds just not the same at home, do they not embrace it the same, or what is it?
I think we take a lot for granted, because there's just so much [G] music back at home, and
[Em] it's done on such a huge scale all [G] the time, you kind of become immune to it a
little bit, not that we don't appreciate it, we do, but I think we can take it for
granted a lot.
And you're on tour with Luke this week, Mr Combs.
Yes, back with Luke.
You've been on the road with Luke in the States, so what's it even like to share the
stage with him?
I know he was just messing around.
Yeah, that's pretty normal, he's a great dude, he really took good care of us, we were out, it was our first time to be out [Bb] for 30, 40 days without going home, so he was really gentle, and his whole crew has [N] been really gentle with us, teaching us, you know, like about truck stop, laundromats, and things like that, and then as far as the venues and the shows, they're just such great dudes, it doesn't matter what we need, they're ready to help us.
That's awesome, and you've been doing some headlined acts as well on the Girl Going Nowhere tour, and I saw you did a sold-out show in Nashville last week.
We did, we sold out the marathon.
We had sold out of 500 caps, and then moved it up to the marathon, and I wasn't sure we would sell it out, but we did.
It was really incredible.
To play a show at home is different, and a Nashville crowd doesn't usually sell out a venue, because we have so much of it to go to all week, every week, so it was awesome.
Are you finding that the fans have kind of picked out certain favorites from the album on the road?
Are there certain songs that go down really well?
Yeah, and it wasn't necessarily the ones that I thought it would be.
Southern Babylon, people are screaming it from the audience, and I'm like, really?
I didn't think that would be a favorite.
That and I'm living next to Leroy.
Yeah, [Ab] that's amazing.
And which of the focus was, they're on the live shows when you're recording the album, because I mean, songs like El Dorado, [B] I feel like they're made for these kind of big shows.
We had kind of developed less of an album, but more like a set list, and then we just [G] rehearsed that set list for three days, and then went in and played the show down, played about half the show down, and did it two or three times, and then the next night we came in and played the other half of the show down two or three times, so it really is geared towards a live show.
Yeah, and you played at Red Rocks not too long ago as well.
Yeah, bucket [A] list.
Yeah, well, we went to visit Red Rocks in the summer, and we were just overwhelmed by the place, so to play there.
The size of the, just the rocks.
Yeah, it's [D] amazing.
And the scenery is just insane.
Everything is up a flight of stairs, and [G]
it was on my bucket list to even go there, and my bass player said it was on his bucket list too, but he wasn't going to go there until we played there.
Right.
So there we were on that stage, and Little Big Town was awesome for having us out.
Yeah, and you also played at the ACM Honors not too long ago at the Ryman, so tell us a little bit about that, because you did a little tribute, didn't you?
Yeah, and so, you know, you had the ACMs, you had the ACM Honors, and I'm like, I don't, I'm so green at a lot of the awards stuff, I was like, I don't know what these things are.
They're like, it's an awards show, and John Party was a host and Lauren Alaina, and they said you're going to get, you get to honor Maitreya Seberg with Lauren Alaina [Db] and Dina Carter, and I'm a huge Maitreya Seberg fan.
[G] So I thought, you know, it's going to be great to be able to honor her and present her with an award, and then I got to meet her and hug her neck, and that resulted in she and I get to write together in November.
Wasn't Maitreya Seberg one of the first shows you ever went to in Nashville?
Yes, yeah, it was at the Hall of Fame lounge there in Nashville, and a friend of mine drove up from Memphis, and we went to watch Maitreya Seberg just her and a guitar, and I don't want to sound like an insult, it's not, but I'm kind of awkward just inherently, and she talked about that.
She's like, you know, we're [G] songwriters, we're kind of strange people, it's okay to be strange, it's okay to be strange into a microphone if you want to.
[Abm] She's just, I don't know, she's a big hero.
[Db] That's lovely when you put these people on a kind of pedestal, and then you meet them and it's everything you expect them to be.
But tell us a little bit about the news you had from Garth Brooks not too long ago, because this is really, really exciting.
It is exciting.
Huge exposure for Girl Going Nowhere.
Yeah, when he first texted me, I didn't believe it was him.
[A] And so I got to talk to him on the phone, and of course it was him, and we just kind of chit-chatted about two songs, Bible in a [Eb] 44 and Girl Going Nowhere.
[N] And in the middle of the night, it was probably 2am, and I got a phone call, or a text message, it was a video from way up in the nosebleeds at the Tacoma show, and it was Garth [B] doing Guy Going Nowhere.
And we've kept in touch here and there over the whole process, and he let us know that he was going to release it on the [Bb] live record.
Wow.
And I heard you mention that Girl Going Nowhere's going to radio, am I right?
It's going to go to radio.
So what was the thinking behind [Gbm] that, and why do you think it was a great fit for the next single?
We had chosen Radioland as the second single, and it didn't do what we wanted that song [G] to do.
And there was just so much going on on the chart at the time, and it's such a weird world, and I try not to understand it.
And we thought, you know what, we should just, instead of trying to shove this song up a chart, we should just go with this song that gets the most response every night.
And we're just going to let it do what it's going to do.
[Db] And like Dahlonega, it may grow legs and run around, and we're just going to let it be organic.
Well, fingers crossed it gets to where it deserves to be.
Thank you.
It's one of the best songs of the last four or five years, easily for me.
So what's on the horizon for the rest of the year now in terms [G] of new music?
Are you working towards a new project and writing with people?
Yeah, well we started picking out the stuff for the second record the day after we finished the first record, which is awesome.
Because there were [G] so many songs that deserved to be on the first record that didn't make it.
And of course, like children, you love all your children, you want them all to have an equal opportunity.
So we do have a pile of about probably 25 songs.
We need 50 to go through.
So I get time in 2019 to take time off and try to clear your brain.
I had no idea this was a thing, road brain, where you can't even form sentences correctly sometimes, much less try to create music.
So I get to take time off.
It's the thing I'm most excited [A] about.
Yeah, and you've got some writing sessions set up, haven't you?
Oh yeah.
Jen Wayne from Runaway June.
Jennifer Wayne, Travis Meadows, Matresa Berg, Laura Belz, who wrote I Could Use A Love Song.
I got to honour she and Maren doing that song at a publishing award ceremony too.
[Abm] So that's how Laura and I hooked up and man, she's a fantastic writer.
Well, we look forward to hearing [Ab] some new music at some point in the future.
I can't wait to create it.
But before we finish, I've got to ask you, is there any plans to come back to C2C at some point?
[G] You know, I think they're announcing that next week.
Right.
And so when [C] they do, it's a good chance.
[G] It's a good chance you're going to see [Bb] my name and the whole band gets to come.
That would be awesome.
Well, Ashley, thank you for joining us.
Of course.
And we'll catch up with you next time.
Hopefully at C2C.
Of course, absolutely.
And maybe not in a tiny room.
Yeah, that'd be [N] nice. _