{"id":1301325,"date":"2018-12-11T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1801587"},"modified":"2018-12-11T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:20:10","slug":"ten-cmt-must-see-indies-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/ten-cmt-must-see-indies-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten CMT Must-See Indies You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:664712?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\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">10h ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>CMT\u2019s Must-See Indies is a video discovery program that highlights rising independent artists, as well as established acts from indie labels. The next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/video-playlists\/x16kfi\/music-videos-cmt-must-see-indies\/mliz9w\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">round<\/a> showcases performances that celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tenille Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:5873d661-ae7a-4207-b626-53cbf3ca0ac2\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Breaking up is hard to do, but heartache and pain are perennial, thematic gifts in country music that keep on giving. And \u201cI Hate This\u201d by rising artist and powerhouse vocalist Tenille Arts is one of those gifts. It\u2019s a soaring ballad that offers a raw and real look inside the sorrow one feels after a relationship ends with a focus on the toxic hate everyone has to rid themselves of following a heartbreak. \u201cI wrote this song with Adam Wheeler,\u201d Arts tells CMT.com. \u201cWe were talking about how you feel during a breakup or a break in a relationship and how you just hate the whole situation and usually want to move past that point in your life. You hate thinking about the fact that you have to stop thinking about that person and stop talking to them, and then you also hate thinking about the possibility of starting a new relationship. I have experienced this exact situation, and I really wanted to get the melody to match the feeling.\u201d The video accentuates the brokenness by filming Arts in a room where her world gets turned upside down. The Canada native performed all her own stunts in the Todd Cassetty-directed piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harper Grae<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:9e613deb-dd52-49a1-b35f-9cd49ec1dc9f\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Grae has deep-rooted wisdom that\u2019s beyond her years because of her grandparents\u2019 raising. Her latest video \u201cMonster\u201d tells the tragic story of her mother, who passed away last year following an addiction battle that lasted most of Grae\u2019s life. \u201cMonster\u201d is from her latest EP <em>Buck Moon Medleys<\/em>, which gets its title from the full July moon. \u201cAfter my mom passed last year,\u201d Grae tells CMT.com, \u201cI never had the opportunity to really get to know her because she struggled with her own demons that kept her away from me growing up. But I always felt super close to her. And it even came down to our birthdays being one day apart. She was born on July 3, and I was born on July 4. So, I\u2019ve just always felt very close to her. The full moon of July is called the Buck Moon. I thought that was a cool way to honor her. Native Americans named every moon after a different thing to help them transition from season to season. I thought it was a cool way to tie in the family into this next piece because this is my raw self navigating through grieving the loss of my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Margo Price<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:bd3764f9-011e-4b39-aa4b-35b3c3615e37\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Price\u2019s \u201cAll American Made\u201d is a profound message of hope that shows the beauty in a unified America. Working with directors Kimberly Stuckwisch and Carlos Lopez Estrada, Price\u2019s goal was to film working-class Americans as they work to overcome life\u2019s struggles and share their successes. The video was shot in eight cities across five states in nine days, highlighting individuals and their stories. One of them is Stuckwisch\u2019s own mother who lost everything when the family home in southern Indiana burnt to the ground. In the end, Price leads the crowd down a road toward a brighter tomorrow. \u201cOne of the things we wanted to show was no matter what side of the fence you\u2019re on, whether you\u2019re on the left or the right, we\u2019re all still people,\u201d Price tells CMT.com. \u201cWe\u2019re all here trying to raise our kids and go to work. We all want the same things, but there are a lot of different ways you can get there.\u201d Price heads to the 61st annual Grammy awards with a nomination for best new artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Prine<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:b3d27a2c-a678-4ac1-9fc0-5b8e197a7a61\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>There is an extensive generation of American kids being raised by their grandparents as a direct result of the country\u2019s opioid crisis. Their story is told in Prine\u2019s heart-wrenching video for \u201cSummer\u2019s End\u201d from his Grammy-nominated album <em>The Tree of Forgiveness<\/em>. It is the music video directorial debut for Oscar-nominated, <em>Heroine<\/em> and <em>Recovery Boys<\/em> documentarians, Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon. It is dedicated to Max Barry, the late son of former Nashville mayor Megan Barry, who is one of Prine\u2019s closest friends. She is forever connected to everyone affected by the opioid crisis ever since her son died of an overdose in 2017. He was 22 and her only child. Prine performed at his memorial in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lucie Silvas<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:8ce46562-8803-49e6-9e76-6ee756d8eed0\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Good luck trying to tie down the fiercely independent heroine in Silvas\u2019 \u201cKite.\u201d She knows no limits and can\u2019t be contained. Silvas channels a Frankenstein alter ego in the Jarrad K-directed art piece. \u201cI had this character that I played with \u2018Letters to Ghosts,\u2019 \u2018Smoke\u2019 and \u2018Villain,\u2019 but this is so much more of a real character of my inner psyche,\u201d Silvas tells CMT.com. \u201c\u2018Kite\u2019 is something I want to creatively explore and use these different angles of dance and performance \u2026 it\u2019s different parts of my personality that I want to bring out that are showing what I\u2019m actually dealing with at this point in my life.\u201d Its chunky backbeat, nonstop attitude and expressive guitar work by husband John Osborne and Derek Wells make \u201cKite\u201d a standout on her latest album <em>E.G.O.<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruston Kelly<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:c6d0ebdb-fee4-45b2-beee-8a02c437fccf\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Kelly is one of those rare artists who is determined make every moment count for the sake of his music. And it shows in a video series for \u201cMockingbird,\u201d \u201cSon of a Highway Daughter,\u201d \u201cBig Brown Bus,\u201d \u201cFaceplant\u201d and \u201cJericho.\u201d Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King directed each art piece as a way to introduce Kelly as the expressive storyteller he is. And yes, that\u2019s him performing all his own figure skating stunts on the ice in \u201cSon of a Highway Daughter.\u201d The reason why it took a long time for his full-length debut, <em>Dying Star<\/em>, to come to fruition is that he had to kick a drug habit that was going to kill him if he didn\u2019t stop. \u201cI kept quitting and then relapsing probably eight times,\u201d Kelly tells CMT.com. \u201cI just couldn\u2019t get a handle on it, and I had to learn a lot about myself first \u2026 I fought a long time to even get a chapter one. Everyone has their demons in the closet. Everyone\u2019s got their thorn. To be transparent about that and to use artwork as a means to remove that thorn and understand yourself better, that\u2019s the statement I wanted to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:f450622d-fb69-4f8c-947a-81d232cf113c\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:0bdb0234-605f-47d8-b174-eb60d30be24a\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:dcdc5af7-01ca-4bcb-a210-7213c9a51982\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:41d9ad29-9f4b-4709-858e-223c377eba82\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 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