{"id":1319208,"date":"2020-04-01T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819781"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:18:52","slug":"tenille-townes-gets-six-friends-to-virtually-cover-lean-on-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/tenille-townes-gets-six-friends-to-virtually-cover-lean-on-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenille Townes Gets Six Friends to Virtually Cover \u201cLean On Me\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:691434?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 \/>\n26m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fLbjcDWrJxk?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\/fLbjcDWrJxk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>When social distancing sounds this good, being #AloneTogether doesn\u2019t seem all that bad. <\/p>\n<p>Tenille Townes recently virtually connected with fellow country singers Abby Anderson, Kassi Ashton, Keelan Donovan, Alex Hall, Adam Hambrick and Caylee Hammack to sing a classic R&amp;B song of hope for the days, weeks, months and possibly even years to come. <\/p>\n<p>And the song they chose to cover \u2014 Bill Withers\u2019 1972 ballad \u201cLean on Me\u201d \u2014 makes just as much sense now as it did back when Withers penned the tune about the strength you can find when you\u2019re supporting each other. In an interview with Songfacts, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer said he wrote the song about missing his hometown in West Virginia. \u201cComing from a place where people were a little more attentive to each other, less afraid, that would cue me to have those considerations than somebody from a different place,\u201d he\u2019d said.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like Townes\u2019 intentions with this moving collaboration were very similar. \u201cThese crazy times right now make me so grateful for my friends, for music, and the way we are still all connected. It brought me so much joy hearing everybody\u2019s voices come together on this song, and it\u2019s my hope that it brings people a little joy and comfort out there when they hear it. We really all do need somebody to lean on, especially right now,\u201d Townes said. \u201cIt was really fun to sing this song together across the distance!<\/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<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\/1819781\/tenille-townes-gets-six-friends-to-virtually-cover-lean-on-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 26m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. When social distancing sounds this good, being #AloneTogether doesn\u2019t seem all that bad. Tenille Townes recently virtually connected with fellow country singers Abby Anderson, Kassi Ashton, Keelan Donovan, Alex Hall, Adam Hambrick and Caylee Hammack to sing a classic R&amp;B song of hope for the days, weeks, [&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-1319208","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 16:58:02","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\/1319208","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=1319208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}