{"id":1309465,"date":"2019-04-26T17:47:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805850"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:47:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T23:47:43","slug":"erin-enderlins-video-trilogy-tells-the-whole-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/erin-enderlins-video-trilogy-tells-the-whole-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Enderlin\u2019s Video Trilogy Tells the Whole Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:672619?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\">25m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBroken\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:e3fe6998-cd67-41ed-8110-0531558772db\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cTill It\u2019s Gone\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:24f240f9-7513-4ff6-9f94-6b175cee37b4\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u201cTonight I Don\u2019t Give a Damn\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:24f240f9-7513-4ff6-9f94-6b175cee37b4\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Those three tracks all make an appearance on singer-songwriter Erin Enderlin\u2019s brand new EP <em>Chapter One: Tonight I Don\u2019t Give a Damn<\/em>, and with the videos, she hopes that listeners will get a feel for all the ways one woman can fall in and out of love.<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with CMT.com, Enderlin revealed a little bit more about herself, her music and the thinking behind the story told in these three songs.<br \/><strong><br \/>CMT.com: There are so many people who have gone through what the main character has gone through in this trilogy, and everyone has their own way of dealing with suffering. Who came up with the storyline of a woman facing hers with reckless abandonment and a highway cowboy whose kisses taste like smoke?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enderlin: I think it was just where the songs took me. I like to capture moments in time. At this moment, the character is kind of reverting back to the only things she\u2019s known. She\u2019s going through such a tough process, and while she\u2019s starting to make decisions that will take her to a better place, she\u2019s also reaching for familiar crutches to numb the pain. But this is just a moment in time, by no means the end of her story.<br \/><strong><br \/>Since you wrote \u201cBroken\u201d by yourself, can you tell us what inspired this song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel a lot of responsibility singing this song. It\u2019s not my story. I was lucky enough to work doing some peer counseling in high school and college, and this is a story inspired by so many of the young women\u2019s stories that I heard.<br \/><strong><br \/>And on \u201cTill It\u2019s Gone,\u201d who came up with the lyric about burning up all her chances with a book of motel matches?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Damn, that line is pretty great! I think that was actually a combination effort. I wrote that song with Jim \u201cMoose\u201d Brown and the incomparable Jon Randall.<br \/><strong><br \/>Lastly, \u201cTonight I Don\u2019t Give a Damn\u201d sets a scene from the first line on, which makes sense because your storytelling has always been theatrical. Was that your intention on this song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved the deceptively simple approach to writing. Just enough images and direction for the listener to make it their own, and really see it in their mind. I like thinking about songs like tiny movies, the way you can use words to set the scene.<br \/><strong><br \/>Reba McEntire just recorded your song \u201cThe Bar\u2019s Getting Lower\u201d for her <em>Stronger Than the Truth<\/em> album. What does that do for your confidence as a songwriter, knowing that living legends depend on you for solid country songwriting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really a huge honor to have that caliber of artist, that I look up to, connect with something I\u2019ve written so strongly that they choose to record it. I\u2019ve been really lucky to have such a great heritage of country writers to study, and even have the opportunity to write with many of them and learn from watching them work. Folks like Larry Cordle, Kim Richey, Melba Montgomery, Matraca Berg, Leslie Satcher, Bill Anderson, Randy Scruggs, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, and so many more taking the time to write and share their talents with me has had an immeasurable impact on how I write songs.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Enderlin will be the next three EPs \u2014 <em>Chapter Two<\/em> this June, and <em>Chapter Three<\/em> and <em>Chapter Four<\/em> before the end of the year \u2014 and a long list of tour dates throughout the spring and summer.<\/p>\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<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1805850\/erin-enderlins-video-trilogy-tells-the-whole-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 25m ago \u201cBroken\u201d Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. \u201cTill It\u2019s Gone\u201d Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. \u201cTonight I Don\u2019t Give a Damn\u201d Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. Those three tracks all make an appearance on singer-songwriter Erin Enderlin\u2019s brand new EP Chapter One: Tonight I Don\u2019t Give a Damn, and with the videos, she hopes that listeners will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1309465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:34:17","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}