{"id":1313620,"date":"2019-08-15T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1810521"},"modified":"2019-08-15T23:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T05:03:46","slug":"ashley-mcbryde-diagnosed-with-eric-church-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/ashley-mcbryde-diagnosed-with-eric-church-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley McBryde Diagnosed With Eric Church Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:680064?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\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">6m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Ashley McBryde spent a decade trying to get noticed in Nashville \u2014 and those years under the radar have shaped her into the accomplished artist she is today. Her major label debut, <em>Girl Going Nowhere<\/em>, even earned a Grammy nomination for best country album.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a><\/em> caught up with the ACM Award-winning performer at Cain\u2019s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to talk about her rise from an unknown singer in biker bars into one of country music\u2019s most determined newcomers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a> airs at 9\/8c Saturday and Sunday mornings.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WI7YCYR4EyM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WI7YCYR4EyM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>CMT: You earned your success over the last nine or 10 years. What was that slow build like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AM: It took a really long time, I\u2019m not ashamed of it. I did have someone say on social media, like, \u201cI don\u2019t think 11 years is something to brag about.\u201d And I was like, man, if you can stand toe-to-toe with this city and slog it out for 11 years, then you do feel good when that little bump of momentum happens. I get to play here. This is not a participation trophy. This isn\u2019t a favor from somebody\u2019s uncle. I earned my spot here.<\/p>\n<p>I think that\u2019s the cool thing about slogging it out in dive bars \u2014 I say dive bars, but not as an insult. Biker bars, trucker bars, places where the people are really cool, really genuine. And sometimes rowdy but you learn how to shuck and jive and get through the night. And once you get to a stage like this you earned it. It\u2019s like a college degree. There\u2019s no one that can argue that you didn\u2019t earn that spot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOKBGkTG4Eg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LOKBGkTG4Eg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>How valuable has that musical development and experience been over the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, 1000 percent. The way we look and the way we sound is because of all of that development. It happens organically. I mean, you drive 60,000 miles a year in your truck, alone with a guitar and a beagle, and you learn how to perform to a crowd who can\u2019t honestly care less that you are there. It\u2019s loud and they don\u2019t turn the TVs off when the ball game\u2019s on, so the things that you learn how to do in those situations is 1000 percent responsible for the way we know how to entertain now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRPu1CudHX0?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRPu1CudHX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Did your early rejection help you over the last 10 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and the first few no\u2019s that you get, they sting so bad. They really do shake you for a second and you wonder, \u201cShould I do this\u201d? But then that other part of you \u2014 the stronger, small voice \u2014 says, \u201cWell, now you have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I mean, you wanted to do it anyway, just for you. Now you have to teach this asshole a lesson. Now you have to do this and you have to do it well. You have to really put everything you got into this \u2014 or don\u2019t do it. Because everybody is waiting for you to fall off the tightrope.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGbmYyb37fI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGbmYyb37fI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What have your friends said to you about what\u2019s happening now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were at a festival not too long ago and a very good friend of mine was standing with an old friend of his out in this huge sea of people, and there\u2019s this giant stage thrust that goes out. I used to be afraid of those and now I\u2019m learning how to walk out there.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at her and said, \u201cWhat\u2019s it like to look at her now? And think back to eight years ago the first time you ever saw her in a bar in the middle of nowhere in Kentucky?\u201d And she just started crying.<\/p>\n<p>So they feel it the way I feel because I\u2019m just like, \u201cAw, you guys, look what we\u2019re able to do now.\u201d Just because we stuck it out and got better, because I\u2019m sure we weren\u2019t great when we started.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaeWHq4j018?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaeWHq4j018?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re not getting played on country radio. Does that frustrate you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No I\u2019m not. At first when starting radio tour, I was told it would be a bunch of fluff and it\u2019s a bunch of crap and you have to do a lot of butt-kissing you don\u2019t wanna do \u2014 and it\u2019s still not gonna get you anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I thought, \u201cYeah, you gotta be making this stuff up.\u201d You\u2019re telling me all I have to do is hang out with people and hope they like my music? That\u2019s what I\u2019ve done for years. And then I did that and was like, \u201cOh man, this is really hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But surely there are lots of people with giant hearts that really want to get into cool songs. But they seriously don\u2019t. This is, \u201cAre you looking at this? Is anybody else seeing this? You gotta be joking me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uDkpq1aBvo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0uDkpq1aBvo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>One time when I was younger we found a stray dog and brought him in the house and tried to make him feel at home \u2014 and he bit one of my siblings. OK, that\u2019s the dog you brought home, so if you get bit, you really can\u2019t complain about it.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s learn how to operate around the animal, or with the animal, or without the animal. The dog was fine, it was never harmed, and it got to live a luxurious life on a cattle farm.<\/p>\n<p>I go to radio and if I don\u2019t [get played] \u2014 participation trophy, it\u2019s OK. Not everyone is going to like my songs anyway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve never heard anyone compare radio to being bitten by a dog\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(laughs) I didn\u2019t mean it in a bad way. He was a really good dog. And you know what? Being a radio program director is really hard. It broke my heart for all of the artists that I know that are doing the thing, and are getting ready to do the thing, and it really breaks my heart for music directors and program directors because they are shackled on both hands and both legs. And even if they love your song, they can\u2019t necessarily play it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lcSTQ22Ito?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lcSTQ22Ito?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Eric Church, in some ways, followed that path.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was told I have Eric Church Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And yet he got there. Has that been something you can point to? \u201cIf he did it, I can do it\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I didn\u2019t play his Nissan Stadium show but he invited me to come and be there. So right before the show started, I went and stood side stage and walked out through the amps and looked out and remembered when I played this one venue in Chicago and how many people were there \u2014 it was my first time there.<\/p>\n<p>Eric had played the same place 10 years before that and there were only nine people in the audience. I actually have met some of those nine people and they come to my shows in this venue. And then I look out at Nissan Stadium and I see 56,000 people. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>He takes his music directly to people that want to hear it. And they talk about it, and they buy the records, and they buy the merch, and they come to the shows, and they keep it alive. So I was told I have Eric Church Syndrome and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a very bad disease to have.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqdtX5Ty2Mc?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PqdtX5Ty2Mc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What kind of sense of satisfaction does it give you that you\u2019re doing it that way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It makes me go, \u201cOK, it\u2019s going to be all right.\u201d At the same time, when people say, \u201cYou remind me of Eric Church,\u201d I go, \u201cDon\u2019t say that just because they don\u2019t play me on the radio.\u201d If that\u2019s why I remind you of him, then don\u2019t do that. And there\u2019s so much more to it. To say any artist is like any other artist would be a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>But to see Eric and to have been around him, and just the few times that I have, and to know that he didn\u2019t seek to be this way\u2026 He didn\u2019t try to do this the left or the right way. Neither did I. I didn\u2019t mean to be the girl that talks about whiskey and Spandex all the time, it just happened. I don\u2019t know, I am proud of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_a1-jSYf14g?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_a1-jSYf14g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>If someone didn\u2019t know you or your music, what would you say to them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All I ever say to people that don\u2019t know me is, \u201cHi, I\u2019m Ashley, and this is my band. Aren\u2019t they cool?\u201d And if you\u2019ve never seen our show before, I would hope you would walk away going, \u201cThat is a stage full of people that love to play music together.\u201d It\u2019s just joy.<\/p>\n<p>We play together the way we feel about each other and even if you don\u2019t necessarily care about our genre of music, or if your friend dragged you by the nails to Cain\u2019s Ballroom to watch us play, I would hope that you would go, \u201cMan, if nothing else, they play as hard as they can and they love every second.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1810521\/ashley-mcbryde-diagnosed-with-eric-church-syndrome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 6m ago Ashley McBryde spent a decade trying to get noticed in Nashville \u2014 and those years under the radar have shaped her into the accomplished artist she is today. 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