{"id":1318527,"date":"2020-03-03T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818704"},"modified":"2020-03-03T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:00:07","slug":"madison-kozak-joins-next-women-of-country-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/madison-kozak-joins-next-women-of-country-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Madison Kozak Joins Next Women of Country Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685986?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\"><br \/>\n8h ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Rising country artist Madison Kozak is on the road this week with Tanya Tucker and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/cmt-next-women-of-country-tour\">CMT Next Women of Country Tour<\/a>, opening her first of four shows. Born and raised in Canada and now living in Nashville, Kozak chatted with <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\">Hot 20 Countdown<\/a><\/em> about the shows, as well as the new music she\u2019s releasing through the new, female-focused label, Songs of Daughters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, I listened to very classic country music,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2018Delta Dawn\u2019 was a song I sang over and over again at fairs and festivals back home in Ontario. So getting to open for an artist like Tanya is such a dream, something I never thought would be possible. I\u2019m also heading out on the road with Willie Nelson this spring. I\u2019m so pumped to be carrying the torch of traditional country that needs to be heard and represented in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AOtQfpPXOCU?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\/AOtQfpPXOCU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>CMT: First off, let\u2019s talk about your record deal with Songs and Daughters, which is a female-driven and female-focused label. Tell me why you felt it was the right move for you as an artist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kozak: I\u2019m very proud to be a woman in country music. When I think about all my biggest heroes in country music who\u2019ve influenced me, it\u2019s people like Tanya Tucker, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain and I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, wait, yeah, they\u2019re all females.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>It never really occurred to me that that was the streamline that kept them all together in my brain. But yeah, I\u2019m proud to be a part of this force of a female-led label, a female-artist focused label as well. It feels like a movement. I\u2019m proud to be part of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last year was a big year for you. If you had to think about a favorite moment, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it\u2019s hard to pick one because they all kind of fell into each other. But I would say from graduating college at Belmont University [in Nashville] last May to playing the Grand Ole Opry last October, that was the biggest full circle of like ending school, but also like having this education of country music and knowing that the Grand Ole Opry is where that stems from. Those two were monumental for me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:d1470874-9366-4a02-bca0-f541f0e4ec85\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Let\u2019s talk about the Next Women of Country Tour. Take us back to finding out that you were going to be part of this. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OK. I have to think back to the fall then. When I got the invite to be a part of the Next Women 2020 class, I was so excited because I\u2019ve watched these classes come up over the years and seen a lot of really awesome powerhouse female artists come out who I just loved their music out of this class. It was like, \u201cOh, something\u2019s turning here in my career.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To be a part of this class was a huge honor and to be heading out on this tour, it is so exciting to me to get to tell my stories in cities I\u2019ve never been to. Or in my case, heading back to Canada with Tanya where I come from is really special to me. It\u2019s a huge honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of Tanya, will this be the first time that you\u2019re spending a lot of time with her?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny because I feel like I\u2019ve spent so much time with her just from listening to her music. I feel like I know her. She\u2019s got this sass about her, this grit about her, that I admire so much and try to carry out as well in myself and my own artistry. <\/p>\n<p>But this will be the first time I\u2019ll get to really spend time with her, aside from the Next Women of Country event where I got to meet her for the first time. I just can\u2019t wait to learn everything there is to know about being out there, being on the road, about being a woman in country. I want to hear it from her perspective.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GHFy6-s4d7w?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\/GHFy6-s4d7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I want to touch on your latest video for \u201cOMG ILY\u201d which is all iPhone footage, right? Tell us about why you chose to do that for the video?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. Well, I\u2019m like any other millennial, I seem to be glued to my phone these days. And I love the way that your iPhone, or whatever smartphone, can capture the way you live your life. And I felt like \u201cOMG ILY\u201d is really fun. It felt like the right time to bring out the phone and just say, \u201cHey, this is the way I see life.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>So I shot all of the video on that on my phone, vlog style, at the Next Women of Country event that day. I was peeking behind the scenes as well as the BMI awards that night and just danced the night away. I was having so much fun and it captures the song perfectly, I think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thinking back to growing up, who were you listening to? And how did that impact you? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, I grew up a \u201890s baby but a child of 2000s country on the radio, so I listened to a lot of Lonestar, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert, Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain. All of these artists who were sharing their life, sharing their stories \u2014 and drawing back to the artists that I listened to from beginning, which were the classic country artists. Loretta Lynn was my first concert. I think the common thread there is just I love artists who speak their truth and that\u2019s what I carry today and what I try to bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1818704\/madison-kozak-joins-next-women-of-country-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 8h ago Rising country artist Madison Kozak is on the road this week with Tanya Tucker and the CMT Next Women of Country Tour, opening her first of four shows. Born and raised in Canada and now living in Nashville, Kozak chatted with Hot 20 Countdown about the shows, as well as [&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-1318527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 09:17:51","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\/1318527","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=1318527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}