{"id":19366,"date":"2019-10-15T15:55:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813215"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:55:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T21:55:46","slug":"ashley-mcbryde-cmt-breakout-artist-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/ashley-mcbryde-cmt-breakout-artist-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley McBryde: CMT Breakout Artist of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n11m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/ashley-mcbryde\">Ashley McBryde<\/a>\u2019s music is as elemental as fire and water. Her songs are welded together like sculptures made from the junk heap of experience. They stand strong, stark and true. Little wonder, then, that she has already scored Grammy and Emmy nominations with songs from her first album, <em>Girl Goin\u2019 Nowhere<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s also copped CMT\u2019s breakthrough video of the year prize and the Academy of Country Music\u2019s best new female vocalist trophy. Taken together, it\u2019s clear why McBryde has been named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists-of-the-year\">CMT Breakout Artist of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently working on her second album, McBryde acknowledges, \u201cIt\u2019s been a huge year! The last year and a half has been insane. Everything has moved so fast. So many different nominations and different awards and experiencing things we never experienced. And I thought as many good things as can happen to you in a year have already happened \u2014 but then I got word that CMT was going to celebrate what a nice, giant year we\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grGgUcTqkd4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grGgUcTqkd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Although McBryde\u2019s recording credentials are recent and slim, the 36-year-old Arkansan has been working the clubs and honky-tonks for years, a life she recreated in shards in her luminous 2017 debut single, \u201cA Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it was the song \u201cGirl Goin\u2019 Nowhere\u201d that gave her wings. It is a deliciously venomous smackdown of the naysayers who gut punch you at the precise times you most need a pat on the back. So when McBryde was invited to sing it on the charmed circle stage of the Grand Ole Opry, it was such an emotionally fulfilling moment that she wept.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9s830jmiqnw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9s830jmiqnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSince I was a kid I\u2019ve known I wanted to do this,\u201d she says. \u201cOne of the most important things that can happen to you if you want to do this for a living is play the Grand Ole Opry. So when I found out that the Opry had invited us to come play, I cried, of course. You\u2019ve seen the video. We had to redo my makeup five times that day [before I went on]. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo when I finally got to go out and do it, I thought, \u2019I\u2019ve cried enough today. I\u2019ll probably be OK.\u2019 And then in the middle of \u2019Girl Goin\u2019 Nowhere,\u2019 I started to break apart. Part of you wants to resist that, and the other part was like, \u2019If there\u2019s any time to feel how you feel, it should be the first time you play the Grand Ole Opry.\u2019 So I wasn\u2019t ashamed at all to cry that day. That was monumental.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbocKUcuDgU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbocKUcuDgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the outset, McBryde says that she and co-writer Jeremy Bussey knew \u201cGirl Goin\u2019 Nowhere\u201d was something special. \u201cIt was his story and it was my story, and to be able to share that and really get some honesty out there was a nice thing to do. But it\u2019s not just my story and it\u2019s not just his story. What we found out once the song became a single was there\u2019s a photographer we work with a lot who was told she wouldn\u2019t be able to photograph live music [performances] for a living. So it\u2019s her story, too. Or it\u2019s somebody who wanted to work in radio and somebody said that that\u2019s not a \u2019real job.\u2019 It\u2019s funny how that story resonated so personally to other people when it was so personal to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\" id=\"f7190436\">\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;img&quot;}\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:file:http:shared:cmt.com\/news\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.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\/06\/GettyImages-1153963380-1559833618.jpg?quality=0.8&amp;format=jpg&amp;width=1800 1800w\" title=\"2019 CMT Music Awards - Show\" class=\" js-srcset-img shortcode-image portrait p3x4\" alt><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocredit\"> Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Being true to what she knows is a big deal for McBryde, whether it\u2019s projecting \u201cauthenticity,\u201d as some critics call it, or her own description of \u201cgetting some honesty out there.\u201d Her current single, \u201cOne Night Standards,\u201d which is a grittier, low-rent version of \u201cHelp Me Make It Through the Night,\u201d is a case in point. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019ve never had a one-night stand, you\u2019re lying or you\u2019re missing out,\u201d she declares with admirable candor. \u201cIt\u2019s a very common occurrence. Maybe girls shouldn\u2019t be writing about it, but I don\u2019t care if we should be writing about it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:0e4e8678-b2d8-4381-ae22-25ee40d7bc9d\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>She and Nicolette Hayford started writing the song, she explains. But they were not quite satisfied with what they came up with. \u201cThe next time we got together [to write], we were with Shane McAnally, who, of course, is brilliant. He didn\u2019t say there was anything wrong with the song. He said, \u2019Let\u2019s just mess with it for a little while,\u2019 and we did. We were talking about an airport hotel at the time, and I [wondered] why these hotels have only one nightstanders [nightstands] in them. And he said, \u2018Standards\u2019? You said \u2018standards\u2019? I said, \u2018No, I said \u201cstanders.\u201d And he said, \u2019No. You said \u201cstandards.\u201d That\u2019s the way we gotta go.\u2019\u201d And, thus, was a song born.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a long learning curve for McBryde, who once fashioned a tip jar out of a plastic gas can with the words \u2019Gas Money\u2019 written pleadingly on the side. She would later attract the attention of Eric Church, who was so smitten by her songwriting that he invited her on stage to sing for him and his crowd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BXqoGMJUVQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BXqoGMJUVQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>And she\u2019s learned a lot about stage presence from one of her idols, Reba McEntire, who seems always to present herself physically from the best angles, McBryde observes, with shoulders back and chin up. It was especially thrilling for her to learn that CMT is not simply honoring her as Breakout Artist of the Year but Reba as Artist of a Lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I go through a tough time or there\u2019s a little bit of doubt,\u201d she says, \u201cI just shoulders back, chin up and Reba the crap out of it.\u201d To her other achievements, Reba can now count herself as a verb, thanks to Ashley McBryde.<\/p>\n<p>THE STATS<\/p>\n<p>1 album<br \/>4 singles<br \/>ACM new vocalist of the year, CMT Breakthrough Video of the Year<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813215\/ashley-mcbryde-cmt-breakout-artist-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 11m ago Ashley McBryde\u2019s music is as elemental as fire and water. Her songs are welded together like sculptures made from the junk heap of experience. They stand strong, stark and true. Little wonder, then, that she has already scored Grammy and Emmy nominations with songs from her first album, Girl Goin\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 00:57:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}