{"id":18239,"date":"2019-09-06T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1811555"},"modified":"2019-09-06T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:23:24","slug":"the-highwomen-refuse-to-do-men-suck-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/the-highwomen-refuse-to-do-men-suck-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highwomen Refuse To Do \u201cMen Suck\u201d Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 2m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

There are so many life lessons in the new Esquire<\/em> interview<\/a> with country\u2019s new supergroup the Highwomen. But what I truly loved learning about was how the four women \u2014 Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby \u2014 chose the songs for their debut album. And how they decided what kinds of songs they didn\u2019t<\/em> want to record.<\/p>\n

When the magazine asked what was guiding the song choice, all four women had something to say.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many things like this can go wrong. You don\u2019t have a focal point, or they become too cheesy or earnest, or you don\u2019t know the theme of the record. But top to bottom, our record is very much about women\u2019s stories,\u201d Morris explained. \u201cThere\u2019s not really a whole lot of pining for a lover or unrequited love. It\u2019s all really relatable, whether you\u2019re a man or a woman listening to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to do the \u2019men suck!\u2019 kind of thing,\u201d Hemby added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did say, \u2019We are not going to do sassy music on this.\u2019 And what I gathered from y\u2019all was about wanting to be inclusive. So maybe in our subconscious, or whatever you want to call it, we knew that that was what we were trying to do,\u201d Shires said. (That said, the group did collaborate with Miranda Lambert, the Queen of Country Sass, for one song on the album.)<\/p>\n

And lastly, Carlile shared her perspective on how they arrived at the 12 songs that landed on the self-titled debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what Hemby does so well, I think. She\u2019s never being quiet because she doesn\u2019t have anything to say, she\u2019s gathering who you are and what you want to say and your thoughts and then she\u2019s going to find a way to help you say that. So these phone conversations were like therapy sessions, really,\u201d Carlile said. \u201cWe were just talking about women; women\u2019s stories and women in country music, women in Nashville, girls we knew and the fights that they had. The next thing you know, it\u2019s like, boom, \u201cCrowded Table,\u201d boom, \u201cRedesigning Women.\u201d We were spinning.<\/p>\n

The second best highlight from the story was Morris talking about how, when she was a kid, her summer camp counselor woke up all the campers up with the Dixie Chicks\u2019 \u201cWide Open Spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n

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