{"id":22327,"date":"2020-04-09T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820100"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:22:51","slug":"maddie-tae-the-quarantine-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/maddie-tae-the-quarantine-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie &amp; Tae: The Quarantine Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691744?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n1m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Country duo Maddie &amp; Tae\u2019s Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye were only 18 when they started making their debut album <em>Start Here<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, they\u2019re 24. So they\u2019re a little older, a little wiser, but still every bit the prolific and gifted singer-songwriters they were five years ago when they showed their true colors with their first song, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_MOavH-Eivw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Girl in a Country Song<\/a>.\u201d And that\u2019s what you\u2019ll hear when you listen to their second album <em>The Way It Feels<\/em> \u2014 due out Friday (April 10) \u2014 named after a line in the song \u201cBathroom Floor.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IbGqt4UCmEY?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\/IbGqt4UCmEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>I had a chance to talk with them, quarantine-style and completely socially distant, about a few of the stand-out tracks, the albums they have loved, and what they\u2019ve learned from tourmates Dierks Bentley and Carrie Underwood. <\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: It\u2019s been almost five years since your first album came out. Times are different. You\u2019re different. So is it safe to assume it was different making this album as full-grown women?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maddie &amp; Tae: Yes, because I think there\u2019s a new found confidence. After you do something one time, you kind of get the gist of it by the second time. But this release just means so much to us. Because there was a point in time when we didn\u2019t really have a record label, we didn\u2019t have a record deal. For a minute, we did think, \u201cMaybe we don\u2019t get to release music ever again, maybe it was just a one-time thing for us.\u201d And of course, that\u2019s not what we wanted. We\u2019ve worked our whole lives for this. So you just have to come out on the other side and know that persistence does pay off and sometimes you just gotta trust the journey. So we\u2019re celebrating this album extra hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And the subject matter really changed between the two albums, too. Again because of where you were then and where you are now. In 2015, you had a song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iwp-9tl9zUY&amp;list=OLAK5uy_mzVeOjzpCAz85gLgB7_0NHWid-lP6vTGQ&amp;index=6\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sierra<\/a>\u201d about the quintessential mean girl in high school. Now you\u2019ve got you\u2019ve got a song about finding love and getting married, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y_kIQQKzV4c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Trying on Rings<\/a>.\u201d That kind of pivot alone makes this whole album seem so mature. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It definitely feels more mature. I feel like the blessing during all of that crazy time was that we got to live and kind of grow up. And when you go through something that challenges your emotions, you learn from it, and you can come out on the other side better and stronger and wiser. That is what we did with that time. We really dove into our music and truly as we were growing up, we were just loving ourselves and letting ourselves be where we\u2019re at. A lot of what you hear in the lyrics is the confidence of, \u201cAlright, we\u2019re grown woman now. Let\u2019s talk about how in love we are with our people. Let\u2019s talk about how hard it is sometimes to wake up and be confident. Like, let\u2019s talk about it <em>all<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>I get that, and I hear that. With \u201cDie from a Broken Heart,\u201d you showed a side of you that was very vulnerable. Did the success of that heartbreak ballad surprise you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s this whole stigma that ballads don\u2019t do well, and that\u2019s just totally been proven wrong for us. Being realistic really wins at the end of the day. That\u2019s what people want to hear. As music lovers ourselves, that\u2019s the music that we gravitate towards. It\u2019s really special when you tell your story, and then even more special when you\u2019re getting to speak for so many different people with the same story. Our fans have made it a gold record, and it\u2019s trying to get to the top 20 on radio, so we call it our little song that could.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait. That\u2019s not a No. 1 song? I don\u2019t even understand that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Us too, girl. Us too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xbaoi-lifOM?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\/Xbaoi-lifOM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I think there\u2019s a lot of potential for No. 1s on this whole new album. But first I want to ask about the decision to cut \u201cNew Dog Old Tricks,\u201d written by Laura Veltz, Jesse Frasure and Emily Weisband. It\u2019s the only outside cut on this album or the last album. What was it about this one song that made you feel like it was worthy?<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Dog Old Tricks\u201d had kind of just been popping up in our lives and following us around in so many ways. We\u2019d first heard it about four years ago and we loved it. We thought it was so fun, so sappy and just so great. But at that time it really didn\u2019t fit what we were doing. Then we kind of had to go through life and gain more confidence to really feel like we could own it ourselves. And then we were in a pitch meeting with Universal, and they played it and we were like, \u201cOh my gosh, we remember this song. It is so fun. And it actually fits where we\u2019re at right now.\u201d We thought we could sing this because we\u2019ve been through this. Even though we didn\u2019t write it, it truly felt like something we would say. And if we could\u2019ve written it, we would\u2019ve.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35v7H_AYdoc?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\/35v7H_AYdoc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Another song I want to know all about is your collaboration with Dierks Bentley on \u201cLay Here With Me.\u201d Tell me everything. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We wrote that one with two of our good friends. And we wrote it just for us. But the more we listened to it, the more we thought it\u2019d be cool to have a male character on the song. So we reached out to Dierks to see if he would be interested. He was so kind and he loved the song and he wanted to do it with us. He came in and put a vocal on it and we were so excited. He took time out of making his own record. I think he was actually in the studio that day, and left to come over to (producer) Jimmy Robbin\u2019s studio. That was such a cool moment to be in the same room with Dierks as he\u2019s working his magic on one of our songs. I mean, he was one of the first people to take us out on tour. We\u2019d never even been on a tour until his Sounds of the Summer tour in 2015. He opened his arms to us and was so gracious and taught us so much. It\u2019s a cool way to kind of nod at someone who has been a champion for us since the beginning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNXpVD1soKI?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\/nNXpVD1soKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Songs like that, and really every other song, make me love this new album from start to finish. The radio singles, the deep cuts, and every other track in between. And that\u2019s not always the case for me. When you think about the albums you grew up on, which ones did you love like that?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Dixie Chicks <em>Fly<\/em> record. I was obsessed. And also, I mean for years and years, Lee Ann Womack\u2019s <em>Call Me Crazy<\/em>. Just solid gold. The whole thing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Is that the one with \u201cI Think I Know\u201d? I love that whole album, too. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes! (sings) I think I know what killed Keith Whitley, and I wasn\u2019t just the whiskey. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Last question. Now that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Rs4MTjhcTo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Carrie Underwood tour<\/a> is behind you, what ideas are you stealing from her?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So many. I really loved her VIP experience. She did a really great job of that. She just made it really special, but also so seamless for her and for the fans. The way she had the room set up was so beautiful. We also love that within with her set, she would do the big crazy songs like \u201cChurch Bells\u201d and \u201cTwo Black Cadillacs,\u201d and then she would bring it down with \u201cTemporary Home\u201d and \u201cSee You Again.\u201d Those little acousticy moments of four or five songs she put together were so cool to see. Because that showed her dynamic abilities as an entertainer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Next up for Maddie &amp; Tae is a packed summer and fall on Lady Antebellum\u2019s Ocean 2020 tour. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Way It Feels<\/em> track listing:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere I\u2019m Goin\u2019\u201d (Maddie Marlow, Taylor Dye, Josh Thompson, Jimmy Robbins)<br \/>\u201cBathroom Floor\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Josh Kerr)<br \/>\u201cMy Man\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Dave Barnes, Jordan Reynolds)<br \/>\u201cTourist In This Town\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Barry Dean, Robbins)<br \/>\u201cDrunk Or Lonely\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Deric Ruttan, Forrest Whitehead)<br \/>\u201cOne Heart To Another\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Jonathan Singleton, Ruttan)<br \/>\u201cTrying On Rings\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Laura Veltz, Robbins)<br \/>\u201cWrite A Book\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Veltz, Kerr)<br \/>\u201cWater In His Wine Glass\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Jon Nite)<br \/>\u201cAin\u2019t There Yet\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Dave Barnes, Ben West)<br \/>\u201cLay Here With Me\u201d (feat. Dierks Bentley) (Marlow, Dye, Kerr, Dave Barnes)<br \/>\u201cFriends Don\u2019t\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Nite, Justin Ebach)<br \/>\u201cDie From A Broken Heart\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Singleton, Ruttan)<br \/>\u201cI Don\u2019t Need To Know\u201d (Marlow, Dye, Adam Hambrick)<br \/>\u201cNew Dog Old Tricks\u201d (Veltz, Jesse Frasure, Emily Weisband)<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5QfDokuKOfA?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\/5QfDokuKOfA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820100\/maddie-tae-the-quarantine-conversation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 1m ago Country duo Maddie &amp; Tae\u2019s Maddie Marlow and Taylor Dye were only 18 when they started making their debut album Start Here. Now, they\u2019re 24. So they\u2019re a little older, a little wiser, but still every bit the prolific and gifted singer-songwriters they were five years ago when they showed [&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-22327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 20:05:21","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\/22327","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=22327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}