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Brandi Carlile & Maren Morris

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Maren Morris & Brandi Carlile Talk Empowering Women In Music & Collaborating Together

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The two GRAMMY-winning musicians discuss their experiences at the 2019 GRAMMYs and the importance of women being more supportive of each other in music
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Mar 8, 2019 - 4:26 pm

Today, GRAMMY winners Maren Morris and Brandi Carlile dove deep during an hour-long conversation on Apple Music's Beats 1 "Visionary Women" series. Their inspirational discussion included Morris sharing her lingering awe over Carlile's stunning performance of "The Joke" at the 61st GRAMMY Awards, sharing in their love of Janelle Monáe and encouraging more collaboration and support among women in music.

They also talked about their duet on Morris' latest album, GIRL, and on their new project Highwomen, a female-led country supergroup aimed at creating the gender equality and positive change they hope to see in music.

Will be talking visionary women with my friend @MarenMorris plus playing songs we wish we wrote on @Beats1 @AppleMusic tonight at 11pm LA/2am NY/6am LDN.
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— Brandi Carlile (@brandicarlile) March 8, 2019

The pair talked in depth about collaboration; on their work together, in their work with other artists and in the larger scope of the industry. Carlile touched on what she sees as a "really quiet movement of women" in the country and Americana space that finally joining together as they realize they can't—and don't need to—keep competing with each other.

"There's a wave of this unity coming, and it's coming from the women that are your age, actually, they're kind of leading the way on it. I see it coming, I see it happening and I find it really exciting. And I notice you have the spirit of collaboration in you," Carlile said to Morris. "You're not worried to stand next to somebody that looks different than you, or is more famous than you, or less famous than you…You don't see other women as competition and I've always had that same tendency."

Morris released her sophomore album GIRL today, which includes two featured artists, one of whom is Carlile, on the soulful girl power track, "Common." She shares how she was so touched when, after returning to Nashville from a songwriting session for the album in L.A., she came home to a vinyl copy of Carlile's By The Way I Forgive You on her doorstep.

They also spoke about their latest project together, dubbed Highwomen, where the pair plus country singer/songwriter Amanda Shires, who Carlile explains first inspired the project, will work with a rotating crew of fellow powerhouse country-leaning artists.

Carlile described the story behind the project, explaining how a conversation with Shires about activism gave her a brilliant idea. She thought; "Maybe we should start a musical movement, like a Trojan horse of love, where we get inside the mechanism and fix it from inside."

Highwomen will include women in country and folk, and, as Carlile put it, "our men, our adjacent feminists," with songs in the vein of "really classic country." She added:

"It's turning into a movement in Nashville to very kindly, but insistently, say, 'Women need to be included.' Women need to experience representation in country and Western music and Americana and that starts in Nashville. It starts with us."

Morris' and Carlile's conversation aired this morning on Beats 1 as the second episode for their month long "Visionary Women" series to celebrate women in music and is available to stream on demand for Apple Music subscribers.

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Trisha Yearwood

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The inspirational track is the lead single off of her forthcoming album, her first one of new material since 2007's 'Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love'
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Jun 6, 2019 - 4:23 pm

The Twitterverse has been abuzz with positivity and #EveryGirl posts, following the release of GRAMMY winner Trisha Yearwood's empowering new song today, "Every Girl In This Town." It is the lead single from her untitled LP, due out this Fall.

this just made my day! I am loving all of the #EveryGirl tweets! https://t.co/zDe7DcWFYB

— Trisha Yearwood (@trishayearwood) June 6, 2019

"You got this baby," the country star sings on the girl power track, her first original music in 12 years, since 2007's GRAMMY-nominated Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love. She continues, "Stretchin' for stars on our tip toe hearts / Tryin' to get our big dreams off the ground / Like every girl in this town."

"It's an emotional song, because the lyrics remind me of that little girl who believed anything and everything was possible. It's something we all share in common, and I love being reminded it's OK to just be me," Yearwood said.

The song was released with a lyric video featuring childhood photos of the vocal powerhouse, along with fan's photos submitted via social media, creating a yearbook of sorts of fellow bada** women.

During the CMT Music Awards last night, Yearwood shared a major girl power moment as she, along with Lauren Alaina, Carly Pearce, Martina McBride, RaeLynn and Deana Carter, joined Brandi Carlile and Tanya Tucker on stage during their moving performance of "Delta Dawn." Country icon Tucker earned her first GRAMMY nod at the 15th GRAMMY Awards for the 1972 song. Yearwood earned her first nomination at the 34th GRAMMY Awards, for her breakout hit, 1991's "She's in Love With the Boy."

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Kacey Musgraves

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13 New Songs To Add To Your Holiday Playlist From Kacey Musgraves, Jacquees, The Flaming Lips & More

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Based on the sheer amount of new holiday music released this year, apparently we all really need a big dose of festive cheer—Los Lobos, Macklemore, blink-182 and more are also here to help
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Dec 24, 2019 - 8:30 am

Before we enter into the next decade, we have to get through the holidays. Whether you're one of the many people responsible for streaming Mariah Carey's 1994 classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" to the top of the charts this month or you've trying your best to avoid the sound of jingle bells at all costs, the holiday season can create a whirlwind of emotions.

But one thing's clear: we can all use a big dose of festive cheer. Thanks to a rich, diverse selection of new holiday songs and albums from Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift, Jacquees, The Flaming Lips, Los Lobos, Macklemore and many others, it's the perfect time to get cozy and pump up the sounds of peace and joy.

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"Glittery," Kacey Musgraves ft. Troye Sivan

If Mariah Carey is the reigning queen of Christmas music, Kacey Musgraves is definitely the princess. Back in 2016, the GRAMMY-winning alt-country star released A Very Kacey Christmas, featuring both original and classic tracks and toured with it. This year, she added brand-new shimmer to the album with an Amazon Prime special, "The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Show."

The show was filled with special guests, including Aussie pop star Troye Sivan, who joined her to sing "Glittery," a new, original holiday song about a lover that makes you feel like a beautiful snow globe. The special also spawned a live album, meaning you can tune into this track and the rest of the fun moments anytime. Musgraves is truly a better-dressed, modern Santa.

"Christmas Tree Farm," Taylor Swift

The Swifties had a great year, as GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift released her currently GRAMMY-nominated seventh studio album, Lover. As if the LP and the singles and videos that led up to it weren't enough, the pop star gave her fans another gift just in time for the holidays, a new song called "Christmas Tree Farm."

Her lyrics are filled with nostalgia for the farm she grew up on and the simpler times of childhood, as they dance over the classic, bright holiday song melodies. The music video even features cute footage from the Swift family's home videos.

"It's Christmas Time," Macklemore Ft. Dan Caplen 

Like Swift, GRAMMY-winning rapper Macklemore is also feeling a similar childhood nostalgia on his new track, "It's Christmas Time," featuring rising U.K. soul singer Dan Caplen. The cheerful song is paired with a cute, festive music video, in which the kids drink eggnog out of one of the Seattle artist's golden gramophones (which he won three of with Ryan Lewis back at the 56th GRAMMY Awards).

"Every year around Christmas time I think to myself 'Just do it Ben. Make the song. You can be the new Mariah Carey.' Well, this year I finally am," Macklemore joked on Twitter.

Watch: Mariah Carey Releases A New Video For "All I Want For Christmas Is You"

"7 O'Clock News / Silent Night," Phoebe Bridgers Ft. Fiona Apple and Matt Berninger

Tuning into the news in 2019 can be surreal and overwhelming. Apparently this was not so different in 1966, when GRAMMY-winning folk heroes Simon And Garfunkel released "7 O'Clock News / Silent Night," featuring a recording of the current news over their singing of the Christmas classic.

While technically not an original song like the rest on this list, Phoebe Bridgers, Fiona Apple and The National's Matt Beringer update the heart-wrenching song for our current reality, offering 100 percent of its proceeds to Planned Parenthood. Berninger plays the newscaster in this version, reading headlines about gun violence and anti-abortion legislation. The important, haunting song is part on the compilation album co-created by Berninger, 7-Inches for Planned Parenthood, which, of course, benefits the nonprofit organization.

"Miss You This Christmas," Letters to Cleo

"The days get short, the nights are really cold. / This year Christmas ain't the same / I'm not used to stringing lights alone, I miss you this Christmas," Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo sings on "Miss You This Christmas," from their new EP, OK Christmas. It is one of the two original songs on the Boston alt-rockers guitar-slicked holiday album, which also features two fun covers.

"Hanukkah in '96," Alex Frankel

In addition to all the new Christmas-themed music that dropped this season, Hanukkah+, a fun, star-studded compilation album, brought—finally!—a whole new batch of Hanukkah-themed bops. Frankel, a "Hebrew school dropout" and half of New York electro duo Holy Ghost!, contributes the synth-y, nostalgic "Hanukkah in '96." He says the fun new song is "the greatest Jewish song ever written (in a major key)."

Read: Holy Ghost! On What "Do This" Is Really About & Why They Feel So Good About 'Work'

"Sing It Now, Sing It Somehow," The Flaming Lips

Also a new track featured on Hanukkah+, The Flaming Lips' "Sing It Now, Sing It Somehow," is gorgeous, haunting and ecstatic, all at once. The producer of the album, GRAMMY-winning music supervisor Randall Poster said, "Seeing the Flaming Lips is like going to temple—if they had unicorns and body glitter as sacraments. So, I thought their spiritual connection would be relevant to celebration, contemplation and the spirit of the holiday." Amen.

"Christmas and You," Los Lobos

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GRAMMY-winning Los Angeles rock greats Los Lobos recently released their first holiday album, Llegó Navidad, four decades into their illustrious musical career. Along with reimaginings of under-sung holiday classics "Feliz Navidad," "Dónde Está Santa Claus," "It's Christmas Time In Texas" and more, the album also offers a heartfelt original song, "Christmas and You."

As NPR's Michael Martin explained, "It is a classic Los Lobos operation—a lovingly curated collection of songs from across North, Central and South America with, of course, an original song that makes you want to cry."  

"Alabaster," Andrew Bird

Like Los Lobos, current GRAMMY nominee Andrew Bird has dropped his first holiday album several decades into his career (his first album came out in 1996). The indie folk-rock violinist's new EP, Hark!, follows his aptly-titled, GRAMMY nominated LP, My Finest Work Yet. The six-track surprise project is very much an Andrew Bird Christmas album, filled with his trademark whistling, melancholic lyrics and a mellow, lo-fi "White Christmas" cover. One of the original tracks, "Alabaster," feels both like a church hymn and a local pub's winter closing song, in the best way possible.

Of the project, the "Olympians" singer said, "A lot of folks have a hard time with the holidays but they serve a purpose to us as a people—to create comfort, warmth and atmosphere within the darkness and the cold that can crush one's spirit. There are a couple originals in here that address this idea of light and warmth in the darkness as well as some classics that have some nostalgic resonance with me. Hark! What sounds come flowing alabaster?"

Watch: Andrew Bird Covers Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" For ReImagined

"Christmas Party," Jacquees

The self-appointed "King Of R&B" Jacquees serves up a sexy dose of holiday spirit with his latest project and sophomore studio album, Christmas In Decatur. The nine-track LP of original holiday music, labeled as "HOTTTTT" by Hot New Hip Hop, arrived just one month after King Of R&B. The new album, whose title is a nod to his Georgia hometown, opens with the bubbling "Christmas Party," and also includes the amazingly NSFW "Like Santa Claus," ending on a celebratory high note with "Happy Holidays."

"Tell your people Happy Holidays (Happy Holidays). / We're so blessed to see these better days. / Oh, what a year it's been / All the up's and down's … / It's a New Year, baby, so glad that we made it out / all drinks on me, uh (all drinks on me)," Jacquees soulfully sings on the last track.

"Jolly Liver," Beach Slang

"I want beer!" James Alex of Philly rock outfit Beach Slang repeatedly growls over the chorus of their new rock 'n roll bah-humbug track, "Jolly Liver." Alex, who penned the song, closes it out with the amazing lines: "A-well-a-well-a, ho, ho, ho / and a-all that junk. / There ain't no halo hangin' 'round this dump. / I meant to be a saint. I ended up a drunk."

The new, rocking holiday-inspired song, released earlier this month, came along with the news that the band's next album, The Deadbeat Bang of Heartbreak City, is due out Jan. 10.

"Not Another Christmas Song," blink-182

Apparently not one to follow their own advice, pop-punk group blink-182 follows 2001's "Won't Be Home For Christmas" with 2019's "Not Another Christmas Song." The new Christmas song has Mark Hoppus singing, "I'm burned out like lights on a tree. / Old songs, can't listen to these. / Fake a smile but all I can see is empty boxes and trees. / Another year not a coffin / Growing up or whatever you call it."

"Christmas Techno Dance," Klaus Blatter

This year, Santa was generous, as there are actually more new holiday songs than we can include on this list. We'll go out with the bizarre, hilarious holiday club track, "Christmas Techno Dance" by German comedic dance outfit act Klaus Blatter. It's paired with an equally wacky music video, for which the YouTube description explains, "The Christmas Techno Dance video is basically a summarized updating of the Bible with all the boring elements of the story removed… If you wish to enter the kingdom of god all you are for needing is this video and single of Klaus Blatter. The story is told!"

From the Recording Academy family to you and yours, please have a safe, joyful, music-filled holiday!

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Charley Pride

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Charley Pride Honored With GRAMMY Museum Mississippi's Inaugural Crossroads Of American Music Award

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The living legend performed at the annual gala event, which benefited the GRAMMMY Museum Mississippi's music education programs
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Nov 4, 2019 - 1:53 pm

On Friday, Nov. 1, GRAMMY-winning country legend Charley Pride was honored by the GRAMMY Museum Mississippi with their first-ever Crossroads of American Music Award. The new award was established by the museum's Board of Directors to honor "an artist who has made significant musical contributions influenced by the creativity born in the cradle of American music."

The living legend was there in person to accept the award and performed at the annual gala event, which benefited the GRAMMMY Museum Mississippi's music education programs.

@GRAMMYMuseumMS & the Red Carpet Guild have been working on our annual Gala. This year we have the pleasure of presenting the Crossroads of American Music Award to the 3-time GRAMMY Award winning blues legend Charley Pride! Read more.. https://t.co/cMIlGA0pKK

— GRAMMY Museum MS (@GRAMMYMuseumMS) September 20, 2019

The 85-year-old Mississippi-born, Texas-based country music icon's hits have spanned the decades, all the way back to the mid-'60s, and include "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone," "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" and "All I Have To Offer You Is Me," from 1970, 1971 and 1986, respectively.

According to the museum, which opened in Cleveland, Miss., in 2016 as the first GRAMMY Museum outside of the flagship Downtown Los Angeles location, Pride has earned over 36 No. 1 country singles and 52 Top 10 country hits. Yee-haw indeed!

In addition to his impressive number of hits, he has earned 13 GRAMMY nominations over his illustrious career and three GRAMMY Awards to-date. His golden gramophones were won at the 14th GRAMMY Awards for songs from his 1971 gospel album Did You Think To Pray, including Best Sacred Performance for its title track, and at the 15th GRAMMY Awards for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male for Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs.

Charley Pride Wins Best Country Vocal Performance, Male

In 2017, the country great's indelible impact on music was honored with the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award. Additionally, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1993 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.

Pride's most recent album was 2017's Music in My Heart.

For more information on exhibits, events and music education programs at the GRAMMY Museum in Mississippi, Los Angeles and New Jersey, please visit their respective websites.

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Maren Morris, Natalie Hemby & Amanda Shires Of The Highwomen Are "Redesigning Women" | Newport Folk 2019

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"We don't want more; we want the same opportunity," Morris told the Recording Academy of the supergroup's message at Newport Folk Festival
Nate Hertweck
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Jul 28, 2019 - 2:28 pm

The Highwomen stole the show on opening night of Newport Folk Festival 2019. The new supergroup composed of Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires have been storming the country world with a powerful and poignant message, and they're having fun doing it.

The Highwomen On Their Inclusive Message

"Redesigning Women" arrived as an anthem for the modern female—but the single serves to unite, not divide, which was very clear as the group closed out their Newport set with the song. Their second single, "Crowded Table," a siren song for inclusivity, also dropped just ahead of their Newport debut.

We caught up with three-quarters of The Highwomen backstage at Newport Folk to talk about their debut album, due out Sept. 6., about the lack of representation of women in country radio, why they call Carlile the group’s “wide receiver” and more.

Let's start with Newport and the debut last night. How did it feel to finally present this project live? What's special about this festival in particular?

Morris: I mean, it felt amazing. We felt like when we walked on stage that all these people that came to see us were already on our side. It went by too quick. That was my only complaint.

Hemby: Yeah. It went by really fast. I was kind of relieved it was over, but kind of sad that it was over. But it was very electric. It was like everybody was waiting for us and it was just, I felt I was really nervous. This is my first time to Newport and being on stage with the girls. We had been rehearsing and it was kind of emotional because it was all coming to fruition, you know?

Shires: It seemed electric. You know, we walk out there and we're ready to play, they want to hear us. Then we're also at Newport. I've been coming here a long time and I haven't felt a audience as charged as what I felt on that stage last night. I'm not saying I was here when Dylan did his thing, but I'm sure that was almost as electric as what we did.

Highwomen go electric.

Shires: Yeah.

You closed the set with "Redesigning Women," a song that makes a bold statement, but it's also a lot of fun. Was the video as fun to make as it looked?

Morris: Yeah. It was the hottest day in Nashville and we were wearing firemen gear.

Hemby: Which is so heavy.

Morris: Then we built a fire. So we were melting by the end of it. But it was so fun. Tanya Tucker and Wynonna Judd came out in support. Yeah, it was probably just the easiest video I've ever done.

Hemby: Yeah. Elizabeth Olmsted did it and she was incredible.

Shires: I think the song though... Natalie, wrote it and as far as I can tell, it's about owning what it is to be a woman.

Hemby: Yes.

Shires: And I think making that video and then including all our friends, you know, up and coming and the legends. I think that has a lot to say for the unity of the project.

Hemby: Well, I mean you touched on it perfectly. It's basically, I didn't want to sound preachy writing the song. I wanted it to just be real and be kind of funny. It is the life we lead, we are doing as women now more than ever. We're running businesses and taking care of families and it's a different time we live in and it's just sort of like the hilarity of it all.

Morris: There were dudes singing "Redesigning Women" in the crowd last night. It was awesome.

Shires: I love the evolved ones.

Hemby: Yeah.

Morris: It's for everybody.

Yeah, everybody was singing last night. Also, the second single came out this week, "Crowded Table." Can you talk about where that song came from?

Hemby: Well I wrote that one, again... I actually wrote these two songs before I actually even joined the band, so I feel like it was sort of my rite of passage to get in the band. I wrote that with Lori McKenna and we sat down at my piano and I told her about what they were looking for for the Highwomen project. I had this title that I wanted to write for a long time called "Crowded Table."

We sat down at a piano and we wrote it literally in 30 minutes and then I took it to Brandi and I was like, is this something that works? And she changed it. Just like a few lines on it and it was just perfect. We just wanted to write a song about women getting pitted against each other. We wanted to write a song about like, "Hey, I've got you." It's not just women, actually. I think men too. Like, I want a big house that has lots of friends and family. Just something sort of heartwarming, you know?

Morris: This motto of the band, it fits so perfectly with that song because I think the message we're trying to get across is like, you can sit with us. This is a very inclusive project.

Shires: We're singing in unison so people can sing along.

Amanda, I read this project came out of noticing a lack of representation at women in radio and country radio specifically. Can you talk about a little bit what you found and how that turned into this project?

Shires: It was something I had noticed before, but I really don't operate in that genre. When the idea really started was after my daughter was born and I was thinking, what if Mercy grows up and decides she wants to be a country artist? Like, what can I do and how can I in any way try and change it or at least make it easier? That's sort of the whole thing for me. And then, you know, as ideas do, they grow and they become something much larger than you ever could even imagine. I feel very lucky that these people wanted to do this with me.

And how have you seen this project already have an impact on the conversation about gender equality so far with these first two singles?

Hemby: Well, I think we just want to shine a light on all different types of artists. It's exactly what Maren said in her video. 

Morris: We don't want more than anyone else. We want the same as everyone else.

Hemby: Exactly. I think that's the key to it all. In the Top 50 charts of country music, there's not very many women on it. 

Shires: Apparently Maren's number one. Watch out. Fire.

Hemby: She is currently number one. This girl right here. I don't know yet what happened.

Morris: But it is cool. To be at Newport and do the Highwomen debut the same week that "GIRL" went number one. It just feels like, I don't know, I'm pretty superstitious, but sometimes the stars just align and it's just timing.

Hemby: But it didn't use to be an issue of having women on country radio. We used to have Tricia [Yearwood], Shania [Twain], Faith [Hill], all of the them.

Morris: Dixie Chicks.

Hemby: Dixie Chicks. Through the years it's just, it's been so much less inclusive and that's kind of our point. It's not, we don't want more. We want the same opportunities.

Well, what you're doing is incredible. Maybe because she's not here, we can talk about Brandi. What does she bring to the group?

Morris: We have dubbed her the wide receiver.

Hemby: She's the wide receiver. If you have a ball and you want to do something, Brandi will take that ball all the way. She was like, I'm going to catch the ball and we're going to score a touchdown and we're going to win the Superbowl.

Shires: And then she'll run back down and get it again.

Morris: Yeah. She's definitely a doer. Like, she has an idea and she manifests it.

Shires: I think her work ethic matches the power of her voice.

Hemby: Absolutely.

Morris: Unparalleled vocalist.

Shires: The amount of work she can do, the amount of, you know, air she can take.

Hemby: Yes. That powerful voice. That's how she works too. And she's also, she is a very big supporter.

Shires: All we do is hold onto the reins.

Morris: She's really supportive. In our show last night, I was like, Brandi has amazing stage banter. I'm kind of glad I can sit back. She had the crowd in the palm of her hand when she was speaking.

Hemby: She is definitely made for this, for sure.

The album comes out Sept. 6. How in the world did you record this with four very busy schedules?

Hemby: Well, you work. Dave Cobb produced our record and she's worked with Dave several times.

Shires: Yeah, I have worked with Dave a lot. But when I first had the idea for this before it became even this, I told Dave about it and then I told him that I wanted him to produce it. Then he was like, you gotta go meet Brandi. And I met Brandi and then everything started coming together. I mean, we have the songs, we have awesome bands, we have awesome suits.

Morris: I recorded for two days. Well three, I guess with cocktails. What was the life span of the studio time? It was probably-

Shires: It was two weeks. We did a lot of stuff the first week and came back and did it the second week.

Hemby: Yeah, and we tracked a lot of the vocals-

Morris: We were writing in the studio also. Like, on "My Name Can't Be Mama," they wanted me to help write my verse and so it was very collaborative and creative. I love the way Dave operates. He's really into live tracking. So you've got humans around you making music and you can look at each other and you're all on each other's wavelength. I loved recording that way.

Molly Tuttle On 'When You're Ready,' Her Modern Nashville Bluegrass Classic | Newport Folk 2019

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