{"id":16602,"date":"2019-07-11T13:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808927"},"modified":"2019-07-11T13:41:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T19:41:30","slug":"exclusive-clare-bowen-exemplifies-true-grit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/exclusive-clare-bowen-exemplifies-true-grit\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Clare Bowen Exemplifies True Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">29m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/146DT8ShGHY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/146DT8ShGHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/clare-bowen\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Clare Bowen<\/a> can\u2019t help but crack up laughing while recalling her first Nashville performance because what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/zac-brown-band\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Zac Brown Band<\/a> did for her at the time is the stuff of dreams.<\/p>\n<p>It was during CMA Fest 2012, and Bowen had only been in town a few days to start her new job playing Scarlett O\u2019Connor on the popular drama, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NashvilleCMT\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville<\/a><\/em>. ZBB was headlining an after-party at the Hard Rock Caf\u00e9 on Lower Broadway downtown. Since they shared the same management, she was asked if she\u2019d like to join the band onstage.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one problem: the only song she was confident singing lead on was Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cJohnny B. Goode.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was so funny,\u201d Bowen tells CMT.com. \u201cThe band asked, \u2019Do you know a country song to sing?\u2019 And I said, \u2019Well it\u2019s gotta be something upbeat, and I don\u2019t know too many of those. But do you know \u2019Johnny B. Goode?\u2019 And the whole band laughed their heads off in the nicest way. They were like, \u2019Yeah, we know \u2019Johnny B. Goode.\u2019 And they swung into it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brown and Bowen at Nashville\u2019s 2013 Southern Ground Food &amp; Music Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"e8e311f4\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-182350981-1562873576.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"2013 Southern Ground Food &amp; Music Festival - Nashville, TN\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Beth Gwinn\/Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI was looking at the microphone that was making my voice so loud, and I\u2019m thinking, \u2019I didn\u2019t know I could make that noise,\u2019 and all of a sudden I got lost in it. The band was incredible. The whole Hard Rock Cafe was packed and dancing. I thought, \u2019Dang. I just got people to swing dance.\u2019 It\u2019s like my pathetic superpower. I can make people swing at the drop of the hat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowen has established herself as one of the most consistent entertainers to come out of the series. Right after the production on <em>Nashville<\/em> wrapped, she headlined her first tour as a solo act in Germany. Throughout the series, she was a regular on the <em>Nashville<\/em> package tours that worked the UK and trekked North America annually. She was also a support act for a Sugarland tour and Zac Brown Band\u2019s Southern Ground music festivals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"88249811\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/GettyImages-173707186-1562873652.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\">Chris Hollo\/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since Bowen spent most of her Nashville life playing someone else, it\u2019s time followers get to know the artist she is, and the result is her 11-song eponymous debut produced by Josh Kauffman. Her vocal performance throughout is high and lonesome, exhibiting the angelic tones of a burgeoning Alison Krauss. \u201cThinking Out Loud\u201d hit-maker, Amy Wadge; \u201cHumble and Kind\u201d songwriter, Lori McKenna; Zac Brown Band hit-maker, Wyatt Durrette; Taylor Swift hit-maker, Nathan Chapman; and guitarist, Buddy Miller, were some of her collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took five-and-a-half years to write because it was done between filming, touring and everything that came with the show <em>Nashville<\/em>,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve gotten so much lovely outside encouragement from people. When I came to town, I got to basically learn how to be in a recording studio with people like T Bone Burnett and Buddy [Miller], which was a massive privilege because I got to meet a lot of people through them, and that was huge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I met my husband, Brandon [Robert Young], one of the first things he did for me when we first met; because I became friends with him before we started courting; he said, \u2019I\u2019ll introduce you to some of the best people in Nashville.\u2019 That\u2019s how I met Justin Halpern, who co-wrote \u2019Warrior,\u2019 which has become somewhat of an iconic track on the album for people across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowen says \u201cWarrior\u201d is the album\u2019s cornerstone since it started as a tribute to the pediatric patients she connected with in the hospital during her childhood battle with nephroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer that starts in the kidneys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came up in the hospital where most of them didn\u2019t get to grow up,\u201d Bowen says. \u201cI was very lucky that I made it out because my treatment was so severe in depths. That\u2019s the kind of ward I was in: it was the last hope ward, which is why I have such an affinity for St. Jude [Children\u2019s Research Hospital]. I realized through writing the album that I had never really written a song about those people who I was on the ward with, and who were my family. I watched people suffer things and see things that no person should ever have to see happen with their child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we wrote, I started to realize that \u2019Warrior\u2019 pertains to everybody,\u201d she adds. \u201cWe\u2019re all human. Everybody has scars, whether it\u2019s in your mind, your heart, your body, or your soul. I wanted people to know that whatever your scars are, sometimes scars are not things that we can see with our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"1c598e13\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"><noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.85&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=481 481w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=660 660w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=768 768w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=980 980w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1200 1200w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1500 1500w, http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/12\/Clare-Bowen_NashvilleRAH-045_Christie-Goodwin-1512414466.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"Clare Bowen_NashvilleRAH 045_Christie Goodwin\" class=\"js-srcset-img shortcode-image\" alt><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bowen adds there was no way to foresee <em>Nashville<\/em>\u2019s impact on her life when she first auditioned for Scarlett. \u201cI knew that Nashville was a really special place, but I didn\u2019t know exactly how special it was and then how special it would become for me. This is where I found my home. It\u2019s where I found the love of my life. It\u2019s where I\u2019ve gotten to tell the first part of my story in song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was sort of a funny moment when I first got here because when I came to America, I sold everything I owned. I bought a one-way ticket to the US on a wing and a prayer knowing that I had to give it everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they showed the <em>Nashville<\/em> trailer at the then LP Field, I was standing there onstage, I said hello to Kenny Rogers and his wife, who were on the sidestage, and I was like, \u2019What have I gotten myself into?\u2019 The trailer was playing the background, and my head is 20-feet-high, which is ridiculous, and the whole place was packed, and all the people were screaming for us. And I\u2019m thinking, \u2019None of these people know that I have like $18 in my bank account. Do they?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bowen is on tour through August. She returns to the Grand Ole Opry July 12.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1808927\/exclusive-clare-bowen-exemplifies-true-grit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 29m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] Clare Bowen can\u2019t help but crack up laughing while recalling her first Nashville performance because what Zac Brown Band did for her at the time is the stuff of dreams. 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