{"id":1319249,"date":"2020-04-03T08:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1819838"},"modified":"2020-04-03T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:54:24","slug":"hot-20-ashley-mcbryde-on-stories-from-laundromats-hotels-and-beauty-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/hot-20-ashley-mcbryde-on-stories-from-laundromats-hotels-and-beauty-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"HOT 20: Ashley McBryde on Stories from Laundromats, Hotels, and Beauty Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n19m ago<\/span>
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Everyone in Nashville knows that an artist\u2019s second album is more important than the first one. Because what if the new\u2019s worn off? What if all the best songs were already written? What if the artist was in a rush? <\/p>\n

All good questions, but all irrelevant to Ashley McBryde. Her second album Never Will<\/em> is out today (April 3) and she has literally outdone herself. No easy feat considering that her debut album Girl Going Nowhere<\/em> was nominated for a Grammy. <\/p>\n

McBryde sat down with Hot 20 to talk about going into \u2014 and coming out of \u2014 the second album. <\/p>\n

CMT Hot 20: What was it like going into this? The first was so well received. You got a lot of acclaim and it\u2019s really boosted your career. Does that kind of give you bit more confidence? Or put more pressure on you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

McBrdye: It felt good for everybody to love and embrace Girl Going Nowhere<\/em>. And then there were awards and there were Grammy nominations and all that, which is amazing. But as a band, we got together to make the second record. The first record was just us taking a snapshot of where we were as songwriters, where we were as a band, and this is what we sound like. So we had to go into the second record with the same thing. Let\u2019s think about our Grammy nominations and our awards and love them, and leave them at home. Because once we get into the studio, if you write toward anything like that, any kind of accolades, you\u2019re gonna shoot yourself in the foot. We want to make cool songs in a way that makes you listen to it more than once. And so that was our only goal. And when your goal isn\u2019t anything but having good music and putting it together in a way that people want to listen to it, there\u2019s no way to do it wrong. <\/p>\n

How did you guys come up with the idea to combine three videos into one long-form trilogy series like you did with \u201cOne Night Standards,\u201d \u201cMartha Divine\u201d and \u201cHang in There Girl\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you look at it, you\u2019re like, \u201cWho ties these together like that?\u201d Actually, all eleven songs can be tied together. We found that out one night. Some of these songs were written almost eight years ago. Some of them were written a week before we made the record. And so we put them in an order. (Manager) John Peets and I put them in an order and listened to them that way. Then you try to see if there\u2019s a thread or some kind of storyline that you can latch on to. And there was. So one drunken night on the bus, I got out a sketchpad and wrote down all the songs on one side. On the other side of the page, I wrote down every character that appears throughout the entire record. And then I tried to tie each character to a song that wasn\u2019t the song. Like I tied Martha Divine to \u201cOne Night Standards\u201d instead of \u201cMartha Divine,\u201d because, of course, she\u2019s in that story. But could she narrate this other story? And then in the center of the page I drew a big circle and wrote \u201cLaundromat, Hotel, Beauty Shop.\u201d All of these things could be stories that are heard in one of these locations. <\/p>\n

Full track list for Never Will<\/em>:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cHang In There Girl\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Jeremy Bussey)
2. \u201cOne Night Standards\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Shane McAnally)
3. \u201cShut Up Sheila\u201d (Nicolette Hayford, Charles Chisholm)
4. \u201cFirst Thing I Reach For\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Randall Clay, Mick Holland)
5. \u201cVoodoo Doll\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)
6. \u201cSparrow\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)
7. \u201cMartha Divine\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Jeremy Spillman)
8. \u201cVelvet Red\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Patrick Savage, Daniel Smalley)
9. \u201cStone\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford)
10. \u201cNever Will\u201d (Ashley McBryde, Chris Harris, Blue Foley, Matt Helmkamp, Christian Sancho, Victor Quinn Hill)
11. \u201cStyrofoam\u201d (Randall Clay)<\/em><\/p>\n

EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: Watch the full interview with Ashley McBryde when CMT Hot 20 Countdown <\/em>airs at 8:00 a.m. CT on April 4-5. <\/p>\n

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Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n

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