Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, Kelsea Ballerini, and Little Big Town Returning For Newly Added Dates With Tanya Tucker Joining on Select Dates
Very Special Guest Martina McBride Will Also Be Returning For All Upcoming Tour Dates
Tickets for The Judds: The Final Tour Are On-Sale Now
Country music icon, Wynonna Judd, recently announced that The Judds: The Final Tour, produced by Sandbox Live and Live Nation, will be continuing on in 2023 thanks to the overwhelming love and support of fans. The explosive 11-date first run of the arena tour saw generations of Judds fans singing along to the duo's most enduring and beloved hits. Wynonna has once again enlisted the talents of some of Nashville's brightest stars - joining her for the 2023 run include Ashley McBryde, Brandi Carlile, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, and Tanya Tucker. Also, returning as a very special guest on all upcoming tour dates, is country music powerhouse, Martina McBride.
"What I can think of to say is that I am looking so forward to being out on the road again, and that I am absolutely thrilled to have my friends joining me for this next tour,” says Wynonna. “I’m so grateful to the fans that they want more and I’m anxious to be with everybody again."
Tickets for The Judds: The Final Tour are available now at TheJudds.com.
The Judds: The Final Tour 2023 Dates:
January 26, 2023 Hershey, PA Giant Center *Ashley McBryde
January 28, 2023 Bridgeport, CT Total Mortgage Arena *Ashley McBryde
January 29, 2023 Worcester, MA DCU Arena *Ashley McBryde
February 2, 2023 Tulsa, OK BOK Center *Kelsea Ballerini
February 3, 2023 Kansas City, MO T-Mobile Center *Kelsea Ballerini
February 4, 2023 St. Louis, MO Chaifetz Arena *Kelsea Ballerini
February 9, 2023 Omaha, NE CHI Health Center Omaha *Little Big Town
February 10, 2023 Moline, IL Vibrant Arena at THE MARK *Little Big Town
February 11, 2023 Dayton, OH
Wright State University Nutter Center *Little Big Town
Nods for Best Country Album and Best Country Duo/Group Performance Mark Her Fifth and Sixth GRAMMY Nominations
With Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, Arkansas Native Receives Third Consecutive Nomination for Best Country Album
Grand Ole Opry Induction Set for December 10
“Artists laboring in isolation devising complex ways to present precise little songs of innocence and experience...Welcome to Lindeville.”
– NPR
Set to become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry next month and praised by the Los Angeles Times as “one of Nashville’s most emotionally incisive songwriters with a voice that can channel pain as vividly as defiance,” Ashley McBryde continues adding triumphs to her milestone year as she earns her fifth and sixth GRAMMY nominations with Best Country Duo/Group Performance for her chart-topping duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” with Carly Pearce and her third nomination for Best Country Album for her critically acclaimed project Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, which marked her third major label studio release via Warner Music Nashville.
“I’m so proud to be able to share these nominations with so many friends and collaborators – for a duet we wrote and took to No. 1 with Carly and the entire cast of Lindeville, where we gave ourselves the opportunity to change the approach and make decisions based solely on serving the songs,” shares McBryde. “I’ve always said that recognition from the Recording Academy and joining the Grand Ole Opry are the two best things that could ever happen to you as an artist, so here I stand just in awe of this moment. It’s such an honor to be right here right now. And especially in such good company.”
Cited by NPR as “a mischievous, and mightily pleasing, departure from the prescribed progression of a mainstream country career,” Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville was produced by John Osborne and features performances from Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark, Aaron Raitiere, Pillbox Patti, Caylee Hammack and Benjy Davis, as AP observes, “McBryde and crew created detail-rich storylines with a John Prine level of empathy and compassion.”
“The very existence of an album like Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville is enough to restore your faith in Nashville, however far afield it might have wandered,” Variety boasts, making it “Country music’s most ambitious and oddball album in recent memory,” emphasizes Esquire.
Celebrated by Rolling Stone as “one of Nashville’s most exciting new exports, an ace songwriter who is also an ace singer and performer,” McBryde “has made abundantly clear over the course of her short but fruitful career, she is principally interested in peeling back the layers and speaking the truth,” asserts Vulture.
Summed up by Stereogum, “There’s a whole lot of beautiful writerly vision at work on Lindeville, but it wouldn’t matter if the songs weren’t great. Guess what? The songs are great… A lot of people put a lot of work into this record, and they made something that resonates on a deep, emotional level. Give it up for them.”
“When it comes out,” McBryde shared with Esquire, “I hope everybody laughs a little bit and I hope everybody says ‘What the f*ck?’ a little bit. Sometimes you look and realize, this town is such a mess, everybody here is a disaster. And in the same breath, in that same three minutes, everybody’s okay. And I love those times. Sometimes I wish I could make that stand still a little bit longer—we’re all a disaster, and it’s beautiful. And that’s true whether it’s a small town or a big city.”
Last week, McBryde was joined by Clark, Hammack, Patti and Osborne on the CMA stage for a rousing rendition of “When Will I Be Loved” after winning Musical Event of the Year for her No. 1 duet with Pearce “Never Wanted To Be That Girl.” Watch the “When Will I Be Loved” performance HERE.
In 2023, McBryde invites you to the revered Ryman Auditorium to experience Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville Live, featuring the cast of collaborators and special guests performing songs from her critically acclaimed album, February 15 and 16. Tickets are available at AshleyMcBryde.com.
Paying homage to the radio programs of yesteryear, McBryde confirms Stereogum’s observation of the ringleader: “Here’s someone who loves and respects the age-old storytelling traditions of country music and who wants to find strange new ways to honor those traditions.”
Tickets for the Two-Night Special Event Feb. 15-16 On Sale This Friday, Oct. 14 at AshleyMcBryde.com
“Where a Small Town Meets a Big Country Music Cast” – Variety
Following an invitation to become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry, Ashley McBryde invites you to the revered Ryman Auditorium to experience Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, featuring the cast of collaborators and special guests performing songs from her critically acclaimed album, February 15 and 16. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, Oct. 14 at AshleyMcBryde.com.
“In a perfect world, it needs to be a live show,” McBryde shared with AP upon album’s release. “In my heart, it would be at the Ryman, done in the style of a community theater, kind of Prairie Home Companion it. To deliver those performances in that way I think would be really beautiful and a lot of fun.”
Paying homage to the radio programs of yesteryear, McBryde confirms Stereogum’s observation of the ringleader: “Here’s someone who loves and respects the age-old storytelling traditions of country music and who wants to find strange new ways to honor those traditions.”
Developing Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville for the stage won’t require too much stretching, as Variety notes, “It sounds like the beginnings of a solid country music musical,” while Saving Country Music asserts, “You could consider Lindeville just as much like a stage production as you could a studio album, with the cast of characters unfolding before you as the songs transpire.”
Cited by NPR as a “glorious detour into downhome character studies,” the Arkansas-native and her collaborators leaned all the way in on Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, garnering applause from critics upon its debut.
Produced by John Osborne, Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville includes performances from McBryde, Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark, Aaron Raitiere, Pillbox Patti, Caylee Hammack and Benjy Davis, with NPR calling it “a mischievous, and mightily pleasing, departure from the prescribed progression of a mainstream country career,” while AP praises, “McBryde and crew created detail-rich storylines with a John Prine level of empathy and compassion.”
“The very existence of an album like Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville is enough to restore your faith in Nashville, however far afield it might have wandered,” Variety boasts, making it “Country music’s most ambitious and oddball album in recent memory,” emphasizes Esquire.
Celebrated by Rolling Stone as “one of Nashville’s most exciting new exports, an ace songwriter who is also an ace singer and performer,” McBryde “has made abundantly clear over the course of her short but fruitful career, she is principally interested in peeling back the layers and speaking the truth,” boasts Vulture.
Summed up by Stereogum, “There’s a whole lot of beautiful writerly vision at work on Lindeville, but it wouldn’t matter if the songs weren’t great. Guess what? The songs are great… A lot of people put a lot of work into this record, and they made something that resonates on a deep, emotional level. Give it up for them.”
“When it comes out,” McBryde shared with Esquire, “I hope everybody laughs a little bit and I hope everybody says ‘What the f*ck?’ a little bit. Sometimes you look and realize, this town is such a mess, everybody here is a disaster. And in the same breath, in that same three minutes, everybody’s okay. And I love those times. Sometimes I wish I could make that stand still a little bit longer—we’re all a disaster, and it’s beautiful. And that’s true whether it’s a small town or a big city.”
While performing at the Grand Ole Opry a little over a year ago, current five-time CMA nominee and two-time winner Ashley McBryde shared with the audience, “I dream about joining the Opry and what that day will be like — Will I cry the entire time? Will I be seated? Who will ask me? I dream about that more than I dream about my wedding.” No longer dreaming about the special day, the Arkansas native has officially been invited to be the newest member of the revered Country institution by Garth Brooks on CBS Mornings.
“It would be the great joy and the great honor of my life,” McBryde answered through joyful tears. “There’s the GRAMMYs and there’s being a member of the Grand Ole Opry – they are the two greatest things that can happen to you as an entertainer. I’ve always said I will earn it, and this is a pretty surreal moment.”
McBryde Returns to Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, Oct. 5
Visits CBS Mornings on Thursday, Oct. 6
Ashley McBryde and her collaborators officially welcome you to Lindeville. With its honest, specific and morally complicated portrayal of the many characters that can personify small town life, Lindeville will feel like a place that many have visited before. Praised by The New York Times as “a fluorescent carnival of pedal steel and thumping guitar that proves McBryde can be a skilled curator, as well as a performer,” Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville is available now via Warner Music Nashville.
Produced by John Osborne, Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville includes performances from McBryde, Brothers Osborne, Brandy Clark, Aaron Raitiere, Pillbox Patti, Caylee Hammack and Benjy Davis, delivering a distilled version of everything that listeners have come to appreciate from the Arkansas native: raw, honest, specific portraits of small-town America, and the many characters that you may encounter in any one of them.
Written during a weeklong exercise in a rural cabin outside Nashville, McBryde set out with a group of her favorite collaborators to work up a project they had no intention of ever recording or releasing. Those individuals included McBryde, Raitiere, Hayford, Clark, Davis and Connie Harrington, each drawing from their own upbringings to give Lindeville an every-town realism blended with familiar characters, moral ambiguity and a healthy enough dose of gallows humor to make this town feel like your town.
With swelling strings prefacing what Arkansas Democrat-Gazette calls “a ribald tale of neighbors,” opening track “Brenda Put Your Bra On” threads the needle, acquainting listeners with its first cast of characters.
“I’d like to think that when you first get to town, you think to yourself, ‘What a cute little neighborhood,’” outlines McBryde. “And then the next thing you see is dishes flying across Main Street. And you’re like, ‘Okay! Good morning, Lindeville!’And that’s when we find out that Tina’s friends are witnessing her catching Marvin cheating.
“So ‘Bonfire at Tina’s’ is about all of those women in that town going, ‘Look, we all hate each other, and we can go back to talking shit about each other, but right now, one of us is hurting, and that gives us permission to drink too much, smoke and set shit on fire,” McBryde imparts.
“I secretly hope that multiple people get together to burn the things that have been holding them back (in a super safe way),” admits McBryde. “But I hope that it becomes an anthem and an outlet, not just for women, but for anybody who’s like, ‘You know what? I’m so tired of struggling with my weight.’ And they go burn their scale. Yes. Do that!”
“An album like Lindeville,” notes Stereogum, “is a writing exercise, and you can look at a work like that from an academic lens if you want. But when those writing exercises really work, they can move you…A lot of people put a lot of work into this record, and they made something that resonates on a deep, emotional level. Give it up for them.”
“This might turn out to be one of the most unique, interesting, and important albums released by a major country music label in years,” sums up Saving Country Music.
Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville Tracklist
All songs written by Ashley McBryde, Aaron Raitiere, Connie Harrington, Brandy Clark, Benjy Davis and Nicolette Hayford unless noted otherwise.
1.) "Brenda Put Your Bra On" - Featuring Caylee Hammack & Pillbox Patti 2.) "Jesus Jenny"- Featuring Aaron Raitiere (Aaron Raitiere and Jon Decious) 3.) "Dandelion Diner" 4.) "The Girl In The Picture" - Featuring Pillbox Patti 5.) "If These Dogs Could Talk"- Featuring Brandy Clark 6.) "Play Ball" - Featuring Brothers Osborne 7.) "Ronnie’s Pawn Shop" 8.) "The Missed Connection Section of the Lindeville Gazette" - Featuring Brandy Clark & Aaron Raitiere 9.) "Gospel Night At The Strip Club" - Featuring Benjy Davis 10) "Forkem Family Funeral Home" 11.) "When Will I Be Loved" - Featuring Brandy Clark, Caylee Hammack & Pillbox Patti (Phil Everly) 12.) "Bonfire At Tina’s" - Featuring Caylee Hammack, Brandy Clark & Pillbox Patti 13.) "Lindeville"
Tickets On Sale This Friday, Oct. 29 at 10am Local Time
The Trybe Pre-Sale Begins Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 10am Local Time
Arkansas-Native Earns Three 2021 Nominations from
The Country Music Association
With multiple sold-out shows during the 2021 run of her This Town Talks Tour, including a milestone three-night headlining debut residency at Ryman Auditorium, Ashley McBryde announces 18 additional dates across the U.S. for 2022, with Ashland Craft as support. Tickets will go on sale this Friday, Oct. 29 at 10am local time, following the Trybe pre-sale beginning tomorrow, Oct. 26 at 10am local time. Tickets can be purchased at AshleyMcBryde.com.
The Arkansas-native continues soaring to new heights with three 2021 nominations from the Country Music Association (CMA): Female Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year and Song of the Year for her critically acclaimed, RIAA Platinum-certified track “One Night Standards,” from her Warner Music Nashville follow-up Never Will.
Already garnering critical acclaim while climbing the charts at Country Radio, McBryde will join forces with Carly Pearce to perform their duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” at the CMA Awards on Nov. 10.
“Never Wanted To Be That Girl” has been dubbed by Rolling Stone as a “spiritual descendant of Reba McEntire and Linda Davis’ classic ‘Does He Love You’” that “ditches the campy melodrama for a bracing jolt of regret and clarity,” while MusicRow sums it up with a similar sentiment: “In a word, sensational…For the love of country music, play this.”
This Town Talks Tour Dates
November 12 The Eastern~+ Atlanta, Ga. November 13 Tivoli Theatre~+ Chattanooga, Tenn. November 14 The Fillmore Charlotte~+ Charlotte, N.C. December 8 The Vic~+ Chicago, Ill. December 10 The Fillmore~+ Minneapolis, Minn. December 11 Mississippi Moon Bar~+ Dubuque, Iowa December 12 Egyptian Room at Old National Centre~+ Indianapolis, Ind. January 6 Brown Theatre~+ Louisville, Ky. January 7 Roxian Theatre~+ Pittsburgh, Pa. January 8 The National~+ Richmond, Va. January 13 20 Monroe Live~^ Grand Rapids, Mich. January 14 The Fillmore~^ Detroit, Mich. January 15 Agora Theater~^ Cleveland, Ohio January 27 The NorVa^ Norfolk, Va. January 28 The Carolina Theatre^ Durham, N.C. January 29 Charleston Music Hall^ Charleston, S.C. February 10 The Bluestone^ Columbus, Ohio February 11 Tennessee Theatre^ Knoxville, Tenn. February 12 Iron City^ Birmingham, Ala. February 17 The Moon Tallahassee, Fla. February 18 The Senate^ Columbia, S.C. February 19 Paramount Arts Center^ Ashland, Ky. February 24 Hoyt Sherman Place^ Des Moines, Iowa February 25 The Pabst Theater^ Milwaukee, Wis. February 26 The Clyde Theater^ Fort Wayne, Ind. March 24 Uptown Theater^ Kansas City, Mo. March 25 Surf Ballroom^ Clear Lake, Iowa March 26 Boondocks^ Springfield, Ill. April 7 JJ’s Live^ Fayetteville, Ark. April 8 Orpheum Theatre^ Wichita, Kan. April 9 The Admiral^ Omaha, Neb.
~Previously announced and on sale now +Priscilla Block as support ^Ashland Craft as support
Few can keep up with Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde in the songwriting and wide-open vocal department; especially as the woman whose “Next Girl” was the only Country song cited by TIME as a “Song of the Summer” is mining her own tumult and deep, soul-shaking disappointment, while the “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” continues to prove naysayers wrong with her latest project, Never Will, as it became the only Country album nominated for Country Album of the Year by the ACM, CMA and Recording Academy in the same award season. Now, with the two powerful songstresses combining forces, the ravaged Country tradition of the hard truth cheating song is reignited with brand-new single “Never Wanted To Be That Girl.”
Written by Pearce, McBryde and co-producer Shane McAnally, the clarity bomb is sung from the perspective of two women – the single girl thanking the guy who helped change her flat tire and the wife at home – discovering the man they’re involved with has someone else. The shattering truth in a text – for McBryde – and the reality of where he’s been when he gets home – for Pearce – finds the two women reeling as they consider their own blind spots in a painfully sobering moment.
“Nobody ever thinks it will happen to them,” Pearce explains. “You never see it coming, but there’s always an explanation. You know, who’d ever want to think that way about someone they love. Why would you? And so, that’s where this song started: the things you don’t see, because you’d never look.
“Ashley is such a great drop-into-the-moment writer, she was able to bring that reality bomb truth to what we were doing,” continues Pearce. “She’s fearless, and she understands human nature in a way that let us both really write to the hurt of realizing we’ve been lied to by someone we’re intimate with.”
“Carly isn’t afraid to face the less potable subjects,” McBryde offers. “As a writer she’s willing to get in there and get very honest. Writing this song together with Shane strengthened our friendship and taught us more about one another and ourselves. Seriously, nobody wants to be the other woman. And when you find you are … damn. It’s such a gut punch.”
The third track from 29: WRITTEN IN STONE, which expands Pearce’s original seven-song 29 recording to 15 songs, “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” arrives at Country radio today via Big Machine Records and Warner Music Nashville. The high-drama, real woman duet is available to listen to now: https://CarlyPearce.lnk.to/NWTBTGPR.
In a chaotic year, Pearce has found strength in her music, whether it’s the songs she’s written, being inducted as the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry or touring as direct support on Lady A’s current tour. With PEOPLE proclaiming “with the title song as its heart-wrenching centerpiece... It may well stand as the most pathos-infused divorce song since Tammy Wynette's ‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E.’” Entertainment Weekly offering “the kind of ugly truths you can only find in a broken relationship,” Billboard opining “see-sawing between despair and hope, swagger and sorrow -- fearlessly mining her own life,” and TIME raving “an epic tale of heartbreak at the hands of a 21st-century Lothario,” 29: WRITTEN IN STONE raises the stakes.
As the Kentucky strong vocalist has said, “The more my life unraveled, the more the songs lifted me up. As the smoke cleared, some unbelievable things have happened – and more songs came pouring out. To be able to make 29: Written in Stone, to sing with Ashley or Patty Loveless, those are dreams you don’t dare to dream.”
For McBryde, her critically acclaimed career continues its ascent, most recently with three consecutive nights of sold out shows at Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium as part of her headlining This Town Talks Tour, where she was presented with a plaque commemorating the Platinum-certification of her most recent single, “One Night Standards.” Her 2018 major label debut GIRL GOING NOWHERE charmed the New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post and more, all en route to landing a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, her first of four nominations to date and an honor that was repeated with follow-up album NEVER WILL, released in early 2020. The music itself is stadium-ready rock-and-roll with a bluegrass wink or two and country music’s storytelling heart––and McBryde, no longer new, is the music’s ordained and highly capable standard bearer.
29: WRITTEN IN STONE releases worldwide on Friday (9/17) via Big Machine Records. Fans can pre-order HERE.
McBryde Embarks on Her This Town Talks Tour with Over 35 Stops Across the U.S.
Ashley McBryde has never been afraid to embrace what makes her stand out, as Rolling Stone observes that “going her own way is what McBryde does best,” while Pollstar says the “country songstress did it the old-fashioned way: grinding out dates, writing songs about women being counted out for not fitting the mold.” Those truths have gained the ACM and CMA award winner with a fun-loving, loyal fanbase, who made it clear they’re ready for McBryde to return to the road.
McBryde makes her headlining debut at the historic Ryman Auditorium with two back-to-back dates selling out on Aug. 26 and Aug. 27, prompting the four-time GRAMMY nominee to add a third night at the Mother Church of country music. Tickets for the Saturday, Aug. 28 show will go on sale Friday, July 9 at 10 a.m. CT at ryman.com.
“There’s nothing better than performing at the Ryman except headlining, and there’s nothing better than headlining the Mother Church and selling it out…twice!” shares McBryde. “We’re so grateful to our fans who always show up for us so enthusiastically. We can’t thank you enough for giving us the opportunity to play one of the most sacred places in the world three nights in a row. “They say good things come in threes, so we’ll be ready to shake it up even more on Saturday night!” McBryde concludes.
McBryde’s weekend at the Ryman will include unique events for members of her fan club, the Trybe. On Thursday, Aug. 26, Ashley's footwear partner Ariat will host an exclusive event at their 5th + Broadway store. On Saturday, Aug. 28, Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa will host a can’t miss pre-game celebration. Access to these special fan club events will be extremely limited and determined by random lottery drawings. Only premium Trybe members are eligible to win access to these events. For more information, click HERE.
Lainey Wilson will join McBryde on Thursday, Aug. 26, with support from Caylee Hammack on Friday, Aug. 27 while Caitlyn Smith will open the show on Saturday, Aug. 28.
Undeterred by the obstacles women in country music face, McBryde released her critically-acclaimed sophomore album Never Will in April 2020, with Variety praising that the Arkansas-native “has come up with an 11-song collection finely honed enough to beckon the question: Does modern mainstream country deserve writing this good? Maybe not, but it’s getting it anyway, even if it’s not in the form of top 10 hits,” while Paste declares, “If radio execs and DJs have any sense at all, they’ll play Ashley McBryde until we’re beggin’ them to stop. Few are as deserving of mainstream genre stardom as her, and Never Will is all the proof we need.”
McBryde embarks on her This Town Talks Tour this summer, boasting a run of 36 cities across the U.S. into 2022, wrapping on Jan.15, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio with the support of Morgan Wade, Priscilla Block, Adam Hambrick and Ray Fulcher. Tickets are on sale now at AshleyMcBryde.com.
Fans can expect to hear songs from Never Will, the only album to be nominated by the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association and The Recording Academy (same cycle), including RIAA Platinum-Certified “One Night Standards,” “Martha Divine,” which NPR shares is her “rowdiest jam to date” and that “when she plays it live, this thing will shake ceilings,” and title track “Never Will” among the hard-hitting “American Scandal” and seminal track “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” from her groundbreaking debut album.
McBryde’s "Never Will: Live From A Distance" EP, featuring songs from the celebrated album, is available everywhere now.
This Town Talks Tour
July 16, 2021 - Gold Nugget Grand Event Center - Lake Charles, La.
July 17, 2021 - Floore’s Country Store - Helotes, Texas#
Tickets on Sale Everywhere This Friday, May 21 at 10 a.m. Local Time
Features McBryde’s First Headlining Shows at the Historic Ryman Auditorium
in Nashville, Tenn. Aug. 26-27
NPR celebrates Ashley McBryde as an artist that “has found an audience by relentlessly touring, being so relatable to country fans of all kinds…she sings these songs that are classic, but they’re also rock ‘n’ roll…and they touch the heart of the heartland,” while Pollstar declares the four-time GRAMMY nominee “did it the old-fashioned way: grinding out dates, writing songs about women being counted out for not fitting the mold.”
Now, the ACM and CMA Award winner readies her joyous return to the road and her self-made fanbase with the announcement of her This Town Talks Tour, kicking off June 12 in Roanoke, Va. before heading out to an additional 36 cities across the U.S. into 2022, wrapping on Jan.15, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio with the support of Morgan Wade, Priscilla Block, Adam Hambrick and Ray Fulcher.
“AAAAAND we’re back,” exclaims McBryde. “I’ve been waiting so long to be able to say that. We’ve missed you all so much, there aren’t even words to do it justice. These songs were written and recorded to be sang together. Now, let’s be together and make some damn music!”
After releasing her critically acclaimed sophomore album Never Will in April of last year, to say McBryde and Deadhorse (her band) are eager is an understatement. “There’s a hunger, an angst and a real calling that we’ve all been feeling.”
It will be the first time Never Will, the only album to be nominated by the Academy of Country Music, Country Music Association and The Recording Academy (same cycle) has been performed live since its release. Fans can expect McBryde’s set-list to include the RIAA Gold-Certified “One Night Standards,” current single “Martha Divine,” which NPR shares is her “rowdiest jam to date” and that “when she plays it live, this thing will shake ceilings,” and title track “Never Will” among the hard-hitting “American Scandal” and seminal track “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” from her groundbreaking debut album.
Pre-sale tickets for McBryde’s fan-club The Trybe begins tomorrow, Tuesday May 18, at 10 a.m. local time, while the Spotify pre-sale will begin Wednesday, May 19 at 12 p.m. local time. General on sale will begin Friday, May 21 at 10 a.m. local time. For tickets and additional information, visit AshleyMcBryde.com.
The Arkansas-native is also prepping for her first headlining shows at the historic Ryman Auditorium, with back-to-back nights at the Mother Church of Country Music supported by Lainey Wilson on Thursday, Aug. 26 and Caylee Hammack on Friday, Aug. 27.
“There’s so much ground to cover musically, a little rust to kick-off and a whole lot of love ahead,” McBryde concludes.
Voted by a consortium of leading national music critics, Never Will received the title of Best Album from Nashville Scene’s 21st Annual Country Music Critics’ Poll, and also earned a spot in the top 20 of Rolling Stone’s all-genre “Best Albums of 2020” dubbing, the record as “this year’s most adventurous mainstream country album” while landing at No. 1 on Rolling Stone’s “Best Country and Americana Albums of 2020,” proclaiming it “re-creates the trick McBryde pulled off on her stellar debut: proving that honest-to-goodness country songs can have commercial appeal.”
Earlier this year, McBryde announced the Never Will: Live From A Distance EP, with live versions of “First Thing I Reach For,” “Martha Divine,” “Shut Up Sheila” and “Voodoo Doll” available now, and the full release to be delivered on May 28.
This Town Talks Tour Dates:
* With Morgan Wade
^ With Adam Hambrick
+ With Priscilla Block
~ With Ray Fulcher
# Support to be announced
June 12, 2021 - Dr. Pepper Park at the Bridges - Roanoke, VA *
July 16, 2021 - Gold Nugget Grand Event Center - Lake Charles, LA
July 17, 2021 - Floore’s Country Store - Helotes, TX #
Special Live Performances from the Arkansas-Native’s GRAMMY-Nominated
"Never Will" Arrives Friday, May 28 - Pre-Save Available Now
"First Thing I Reach For"(Live) - Available Everywhere Now
With touring still on hold, ACM and CMA Award winner Ashley McBryde gives fans a taste of what her GRAMMY-nominated album sounds like live with her upcoming six-song EP Never Will: Live From A Distance available to pre-save now and arriving Friday, May 28. EP opener “First Thing I Reach For – Live,” which Rolling Stone boasts, “conjures the Telecaster wisdom of Merle Haggard,” is available everywhere now. Fans can join McBryde’s fan club, The Trybe, to be the first to hear the new songs and get exclusive opportunities.
“We released Never Will on April 3 last year, so we went straight from rehearsals for a tour to not seeing each other in person for months,” reflects McBryde. “Getting together to rehearse and record these live versions safely was our way of giving the fans a taste of what they would have seen had the world not changed so much. Man did it feel good to strap on the guitar and see my guys and just play, but we cannot wait to do it again with our incredible fans in person soon.”
The four-time GRAMMY nominee continues to garner critical acclaim for Never Will, earning the title of Best Album from January’s Nashville Scene’s 21st Annual Country Music Critics’ Poll, voted by a consortium of leading national music critics, along with achievements in four additional categories: Best Single for “One Night Standards” at No. 3 and “Martha Divine” at No. 26; Best Female Vocalist at No. 2; Best Songwriter at No. 6; and Artist of the Year at No. 4.
“In an election year that misread the flyover, where people are both lonely and broke, it’s a gift to have someone who writes so well about money and desire as well as Ashley McBryde does,” Steacy Easton shared with Nashville Scene, while Jim Macnie remarks, “From throwing Grandma’s ashes off the roof to responding to treachery with a murderous glee, McBryde has upped her artistic confidence, and the music soars in kind.”
“McBryde honed her skill in the rock ’n’ roll bars of Memphis and is as much a rocker as Stapleton and Isbell. But she’s also a master of such traditional country music tropes as the pun song (“The First Thing I Reach For” and No. 3 Best Single “One Night Standards”) and the barroom sing-along catch phrase (“Never Will” and “Shut Up Sheila”),” praised Geoffrey Himes of Nashville Scene.
McBryde kicked off 2021 with multiple television appearances, including a debut performance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” with current single “Martha Divine,” applauded by Stereogum as “an arena-sized take on the song” and declaring McBryde as a “country singer whose grimy, gritty, desperate, literary songs fly in the face of Nashville-industry orthodoxy,” followed by a special performance of title track “Never Will” on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on January 20. Watch McBryde and her band perform “Martha Divine” HERE and “Never Will” HERE.
“Martha Divine” follows “One Night Standards,” which emerged as McBryde’s first Top 10 hit while going RIAA-Certified Gold in both the United States and Canada, landing on NPR’s “25 Best Songs of 2019” and Rolling Stone’s “25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019,” along with The New York Times’ “Best Songs of 2020,” the only country song in the top 15.
"Never Will: Live From A Distance" Track List
1.) First Thing I Reach For (Ashley McBryde, Randall Clay, Mick Holland)
2.) Shut Up Sheila (Nicolette Hayford, Charles Chisholm)
3.) Velvet Red (Ashley McBryde, Patrick Savage, Daniel Smalley)
Debut single “One Night Standards” from Ashley McBryde’s critically acclaimed Never Will achieves RIAA-Certified Gold status in both the United States and Canada as the hit song tops the Canadian Country Airplay Chart, marking a new career milestone for the 2019 ACM New Female Artist, CMA New Artist of the Year and 3x GRAMMY nominee.
“It’s really special to have this song reach an audience this size,” says McBryde, whose singles prior to the lead from Never Will had peaked Top 25 at Country radio. “I grew up listening to albums in addition to flipping through the country radio dial, so some of the biggest songs that influenced my career weren’t the ones you heard on the radio,” McBryde pauses. “But that discovery – when the deejay said ‘and that was Mary Chapin Carpenter,’ or ‘that was Terri Clark,’ man, it would send me down a rabbit hole. If you can walk that line, introduce millions of new fans to your music and at the same time give them something to go deeper with on your records, then I think you’re right where you need to be. And right now, I’m very thankful to be here.”
Released last year, “One Night Standards,” currently Top 12 and climbing in the U.S., made its way into NPR’s Best Songs of 2019 and Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019, with The New York Times praising, “McBryde sings and writes with a high degree of emotional acuity, and this song … is cleareyed, unsentimental and a cold jolt of tragical realism,” and Wall Street Journal noting, “With songs like ‘One Night Standards,’ she’s surely bound to stick around—rocking as often as she pleases.”
Never Will, released April 3 via Warner Music Nashville as the follow-up to her GRAMMY-nominated debut, has continued to garner critical acclaim, earning a title early on in 2020 as one of the best albums of the year to-date by Rolling Stone, SPIN, Variety, Billboard, Paste, Stereogum and American Songwriter.
On Monday, Aug. 31, McBryde will appear on GRAMMY Museum’s Programs at Home Series speaking with moderator Scott Goldman, followed by a performance, available at GrammyMuseum.org/Museum-At-Home at 1 p.m. CT.
Last month, McBryde appeared on “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” performing three tracks from Never Will, including “One Night Standards,” “Sparrow” and album opener “Hang In There Girl” from Ryman Auditorium.
July also saw McBryde add to her growing list of accolades, named the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) Nashville’s Artist-Writer of the Year, along with “One Night Standards” as AIMP Nashville’s Publisher’s Pick.
GRAMMY-nominated artist and songwriter Ashley McBryde debuted her new music video for current single “One Night Standards,” the first of a three-part storyline that will be released over the upcoming weeks. The video made its debut on YouTube this week, along with two digital billboard counterparts in Times Square in New York City and in Los Angeles at The Staples Center.
“My manager John Peets and I had this idea to listen to the record and see what stories appeared…what threads of ideas were consistent in the songs we had gathered and what characters stood out,” McBryde shares. “Low and behold, one night on the bus Chris Harris (acoustic guitar, mandolin, harmonies) and I were having a few beverages after a show. I got out my sketch pad and we wrote down each song from the record and each character. It looked like a crazy road map. It looked like a child had drawn it.
“But there it was,” McBryde continues. “A way to connect every song and every video. I showed it to Peets, and we put it in (director) Reid Long’s hands. And the rest is history.”
Directed by Long and shot in Nashville at the Drake Hotel, “One Night Standards” is the first of three videos in the series as she prepares her highly-anticipated sophomore album for Warner Music Nashville.
“One Night Standards” has already made its way into NPR’s Best Songs of 2019, stating, “Gender equity isn't merely about celebrating strengths; it's also about allowing for the human frailties that don't discriminate by sex. So let's raise a glass to the low women, like the no-strings-attached narrator in McBryde’s lone 2019 song ‘One Night Standards,’” and described in Rolling Stone’s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019 as “vividly honest,” and “in stark contrast to so many of the fantastical puppy-love songs that get played on the radio or further the genre’s squeaky-clean image.”
Upon its release, The New York Times praised, “McBryde sings and writes with a high degree of emotional acuity, and this song … is clear-eyed, unsentimental and a cold jolt of tragical realism.”
The CMA New Artist of the Year, ACM New Female Artist of the Year and CMT Breakout Artist of the Year was also nominated for two GRAMMY awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for her breakout hit “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” (the title track from the album that previously received a nomination at the 2019 GRAMMY awards for Best Country Album).
McBryde will embark on her second headlining tour, 2020’s One Night Standards Tour, on Jan. 30 in Birmingham, Ala. with over a dozen dates until April 23 in Helotes, Texas. For more information and tour dates, visit ashleymcbryde.com.
CMA’s New Artist of the Year Ashley McBryde earned two coveted GRAMMY® nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for her breakout smash, “Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” written by McBryde together with Jeremy Bussey.
“‘Girl Goin’ Nowhere’ is the song that keeps on giving,” McBryde reflects. “I was blown away by our first GRAMMY Nomination for Country Album of the Year last year. And now ‘Girl Goin’ Nowhere’ gets two nominations?! Can’t keep her down. That’s the message Jeremy Bussey and I let off the leash. She’s a fighter. I’m so honored and proud to see this song stay alive.”
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere” recounts the story of an algebra teacher McBryde had in high school who told the Arkansas native that her dream of becoming a songwriter in Nashville was stupid and that she better have a good backup plan. The powerful ballad showcases McBryde’s storytelling abilities, and as NPR noted, “It's a song that can be counted on to hush even the rowdiest club crowd.” Last year, the title track from McBryde’s major label debut album, Girl Going Nowhere, earned a place on The Fader’s Best 100 Songs of 2018 as well as NPR’s Best Songs of 2018.
Girl Going Nowhere was released in March 2018 via Atlantic Records/Warner Music Nashville. The Jay Joyce-produced album garnered the talented singer/songwriter her first GRAMMY® nomination for Best Country Album and was the only debut album nominated in the category. After notching spots on several “Best Albums of 2018” lists, McBryde also laid claim to the only debut country album on The New York Times, Paste, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, UPROXX and Variety’s year-end wrap ups and was the sole country album on Slate’s “Best Albums” list.
Having paid her dues in dive bars, McBryde spent 11 years in Nashville writing songs and playing for anyone who would listen. With the release of Girl Going Nowhere, McBryde proves she’s got what it takes. Put simply by NPR, “Ashley McBryde established herself as country music’s most charismatic, naturalistic new voice.”
The awards will be presented Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 during a live television broadcast of the 62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards on CBS.
Best-Selling Duo Will Debut Reignited Collaborations Live On the Academy Of Country Music Awards with Luke Combs and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with Midland
Brooks & Dunn Will Also Once Again Act As Guests Advisors On "The Voice" This Week
The best-selling duo of all time, Brooks & Dunn’s eagerly-awaited collaboration project REBOOT is available today. To celebrate the release, the duo's street week is stacked with a string of national TV appearances. Fans will be able to tune in to the live debut of tracks taken from REBOOT when the duo performs in Las Vegas with Luke Combs on Academy of Country Music Awards for a high-energy version of “Brand New Man” on Sunday (4/7) at 7pm CT on CBS. They will then head to New York City with Midland for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a special performance of “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” on Tuesday (4/9) at 11:35pm CT on NBC. The duo will also continue their roles as guest advisors to Blake Shelton on The Voice this week, offering their expertise to contestants on April 8, 9 on NBC at 8p ET/PT.
Leading up to the release of REBOOT, Brooks & Dunn, who were just announced as the next inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame, have garnered praise for the project’s appreciation for today's country music as well as the duo’s legacy of an “incredible run of hits” (Rolling Stone). Associated Press highlighted the collection declaring it "shows the timelessness of the duo’s catalog of more than 20 No. 1 country hits, which has continued to influence a new generation of country singers,” as CMT remarks “REBOOT remembers and respects the music we grew up with.”
REBOOT - Track List: 1. Brand New Man (with Luke Combs) 2. Ain't Nothing 'Bout You (with Brett Young) 3. My Next Broken Heart (with Jon Pardi) 4. Neon Moon (with Kacey Musgraves)* 5. Lost and Found (with Tyler Booth) 6. Hard Workin' Man (with Brothers Osborne) 7. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (with Ashley McBryde) 8. My Maria (with Thomas Rhett) 9. Red Dirt Road (with Cody Johnson) 10. Boot Scootin' Boogie (with Midland) 11. Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing (with LANCO) 12. Believe (with Kane Brown)
Produced by Dann Huff *Produced by Dann Huff and Kacey Musgraves
With 20 No. One hits stretching back to 1991, two Grammy awards, dozens of ACM and CMA honors and a discography counting more album sales than any country duo in history – regardless of genre – Brooks & Dunn’s influence on today’s country has never been in question. Hits like “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” “Only in America,” and “Believe” have propelled the duo to more than 30 million albums sold, with the New York Times heralding “together they helped drive the power-country era of the early-to-mid 1990s and continued to benefit from the sea change in the genre they helped initiate right through their most recent albums.” Their original “Merle Haggard meets The Rolling Stones” vibe made them progressive stars in their own right. In 2014, the duo announced their reunion along with long-time friend, Reba McEntire, for a residency called “Together in Vegas” at The Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, which received rave reviews and continues to be extended including more shows throughout this year.
Exclusive Premiere of the Music Video for “American Scandal” Debuts today, Friday, Jan. 19, on Billboard.com
“Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” Continues To Receive Critical Praise from New York Times, NPR, Los Angeles Times and Variety
Artists often cite the people who inspired and believed in them when no one else did on their path to success. Ashley McBryde’s motivation came from a different front, an Arkansas algebra teacher who told her she would never achieve her dreams.
So, it is particularly satisfying that the woman dubbed an “Arkansas red-clay badass” by Rolling Stone is ready to release an album titled Girl Going Nowhere on March 30. It’s a collection reflective of her authentic, take-no-prisoners honesty and willingness to not just look at life, but live it, and reflect that experience in her music. Billboard.com premiered the music video for “American Scandal,” which is also available at all digital retail and streaming services today. The premise of the music video is a “Day in Little Rock” with McBryde visiting family, getting a tattoo, and jamming with friends.
Produced and mixed by award-winner Jay Joyce, Girl Going Nowhere showcases an artistic vision that will prove her to be one of the genre's keenest working storytellers, bringing unwavering honesty back into a pop-preoccupied genre.
The album pulls tales from every corner of her life – a happenstance love on "A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega," a neighbor with a heavy past on "Livin' Next to LeRoy," and the autobiographical “Girl Goin' Nowhere," which McBryde wrote the morning that Guy Clark passed away.
"I'm not a pretty crier, and I got to my write with Jeremy Bussey that morning, red and blotchy," she said. "So, he said, 'for Guy, maybe we should write a good song, one you’d want to play at the Opry someday.' So, I told the story of when I was back in Algebra class, and we were going around the room saying what we wanted to do when we grew up. When it got to me, I said, 'I'm going to move to Nashville and write songs, and they're going to be on the radio.' The teacher looked at me and said, ‘That won’t happen and you better have a good backup plan.' It didn't put the fire out, it just added to it."
That fire's been described as a combination of Bonnie Raitt, Lzzy Hale, and Loretta Lynn. McBryde isn’t afraid to tell the truth, get raw and real and use the spirits of country, folk, and rock when it serves her greater purpose. And McBryde indeed played "Girl Goin' Nowhere" at her Opry debut, and still performs it on stage to crowds that now sing along.
That rock-fueled fury and candor burns through every lyric, riff, and song. And it is lyrics that hit the heart and gut like "here's to the breakups that didn't break us," that scored her opening slots with Chris Stapleton, Eric Church, and Miranda Lambert.
She is gaining a lot of attention notching powerful reviews and mentions on several year-end, best-of and most-anticipated lists including New York Times, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Variety, across multiple genres.
Notable music critic Ann Powers of NPR described McBryde as having “one of those voices that might belong to your sister or your best friend – if your sister or your best friend could belt like Loretta Lynn and croon like Reba McEntire.” She summed up her talent by saying McBryde was “Country music’s most exciting new country voice.”
She was the most added new artist and most added female with her debut Warner Bros./ Warner Music Nashville single “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega.” The track hit No. 1 on SirusXM’s The Highway Top 30 in 2017 and she played select dates on the sought-after Sirius XM Presents: The Highway Finds Tour including stops in Washington, D.C., New York, and Nashville and will join Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert in 2018.
McBryde will make her television debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday (1/23) on NBC.
Girl Going Nowhere is available for pre-order here.
Track Listing for Girl Going Nowhere:
“Girl Goin’ Nowhere”
“Radioland”
“American Scandal”
“Southern Babylon”
“The Jacket”
“Livin’ Next to Leroy”
“A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega”
“Andy” (I Can’t Live Without You)
“El Dorado”
“Tired of Being Happy”
“Home Sweet Highway”
Check out Ashley McBryde at the following dates
2/01 Toledo, OH Seagate Convention Centre*
2/02 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium*
2/03 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium*
2/08 Troy, OH Hobart Arena*
2/09 Grand Rapids, MI DeltaPlex*
2/10 Johnstown, PA Cambria Couny Memorial Arena*
2/15 De Quincy, LA Shreveport Municipal Auditorium
2/16 Oklahoma City, OK The Criterion*
2/17 Wilson, AR The Grange at Wilson Gardens*
2/23 Youngstown, OH Covelli Centre*
2/24 Verona, NY Turning Stone Resort & Casino*
3/01 Salem, VA Salem Civic Center*
3/02 Savannah, GA Grayson Stadium*
3/08 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Melkweg Amsterdam
3/09 London, United Kingdom C2C London
3/10 London, United Kingdom C2C London
3/11 London, United Kingdom C2C London
3/15 Des Moines, IA Wells Fargo Arena**
3/16 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center**
3/17 Kansas City, MO Spirit Center**
3/23 Fort Myers, FL The Ranch Concert Hall & Saloon
3/24 Kissimmee, FL Runaway Country Music Fest
4/04 San Jose, CA City National Civic*
4/05 Irvine, CA Bren Events Center*
4/06 San Diego, CA The Observatory North Park*
4/11 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex*
4/17 Portland, OR Roseland Theater*
4/19 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo*
4/20 Garden City, ID Revolution Concert House*
4/21 Spokane, WA The Knitting Factory*
4/23 Vancouver, Canada Commodore Ballroom*
4/25 Calgary, Canada MacEwan Hall*
4/26 Edmonton, Canada The Ranch Roadhouse*
4/29 Indio, CA Stagecoach Festival
6/09 Hunter, NY Taste of Country Music Festival
6/20 Oshkosh, WI Country USA
6/21 Brainerd, MN Lakes Jam
6/23 Cadott, WI Country Fest
7/15 Rhinelander, WI Hodag Country Festival
7/20 Twin Lakes, WI Country Thunder- Twin Lakes
*Denotes dates on Luke Combs' Don’t Tempt Me With a Good Time Tour
**Denotes dates on Miranda Lambert’s Livin’ Like Hippies World Tour
Must Watch 2018 + Year End 2017 Lists Praise Warner Nashville Newcomer: New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Variety, Rolling Stone, CMT, Music Row Magazine, Pandora, and Amazon Among Early Believers
Arkansas Native Makes National TV Debut
on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on January 23
Coming into 2018, one name continues to pop up in cross-genre respected publications from NPR to The New York Times to The Los Angeles Times: Ashley McBryde.
One of only two female Country music artists to make The New York Times’ “54 Best Songs of 2017” with critic Jon Caramanica observing her current single, “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” is “a hearty, expertly written country song about hope after hopelessness,” McBryde was the most added new artist and most added female artist with her debut Warner Bros. / Warner Music Nashville single. The track, which hit No. 1 on SirusXM’s The Highway Top 30 earlier this year, describes finding a much-needed musical pick-me-up in an unexpected place.
Named one of Variety’s Ones to Watch in 2018, McBryde is set to make her national TV debut on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on January 23. Tune in at 12:35 p.m. ET/ 11:35 p.m. CT to see her perform her widely lauded single “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega.”
Co-written with Nicolette Hayford and Jesse Rice, the single and McBryde’s delivery has earned praise from some of the most influential outlets in the country, outlets that routinely cover the full spectrum of musical genres including the Los Angeles Times that says “it's evident that the Arkansas-bred singer and songwriter throws her lot in with the school of gusty country artists that includes Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves and Brandy Clark, among others.”
The New York Times exclaimed, "The country singer Ashley McBryde has a clean, powerful and slightly creamy voice, and it’s crucial to delivering this song with a mature kind of calm. But what makes ‘A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega’ transcend is songwriting, songwriting, songwriting... it’s intelligently constructed and casually delivered, full of rich imagery... potent singalong moments… and words throbbing with outright lustrous feeling.”
Notable music critic Ann Powers of NPR described McBryde as having “one of those voices that might belong to your sister or your best friend – if your sister or your best friend could belt like Loretta Lynn and croon like Reba McEntire.” Making the “The 100 Best Songs of 2017,” Powers notes McBryde is “2017's most exciting new country voice.”
“It felt like Ashley McBryde came out of nowhere with ‘A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,’ a stripped-down master class in how to be informed by traditional country songwriting and style while keeping the perspective fully rooted in the modern world. Anchored by McBryde's rock-solid belt that rasps as easily as it warbles, it's about seeing the light when everything else feels dark, particularly with the help of one special song,” claimed Rolling Stone.
McBryde “has the big voice and ’70s country-rock arrangements so beloved of country radio. But McBryde’s blue-collar storytelling and straightforward singing set her apart from the polished production and airbrushed fantasies of such acts… which shared the chart with her,” wrote The Washington Post.
The Post’s Geoffrey Himes continued, “McBryde is trying to hit that sweet spot on the left edge of country music where one can be gritty and still have hits. Eric Church and Chris Stapleton have done that, and McBryde has opened shows for both of them. Maybe she can follow in their footsteps. When she sings about her influences on the single ‘Radioland,’ she name-drops Townes Van Zandt as well as Johnny Cash. And when she remembers all the people who told her she was a ‘Girl Goin’ Nowhere,’ she directs their attention to all the people cheering from every chair in the club.”
No stranger to the stage, McBryde has toured with some of the biggest names in country music, including Chris Stapleton and Eric Church. In conjunction with the success of “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” the singer/songwriter played select dates on the Sirius XM Presents: The Highway Finds Tour including stops in Washington, D.C., New York, and Nashville and will join Luke Combs in 2018 on tour.
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