{"id":1214,"date":"2018-03-30T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T04:34:44","slug":"ashley-mcbryde-album-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmni.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/ashley-mcbryde-album-out-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley McBryde Album Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ashley McBryde<\/strong>‘s long-awaited major label debut ‘Girl Going Nowhere’ is out now and available to download\/stream everywhere today! The album is already getting an incredible reaction from fans and critics:<\/p>\n

“… among the most varied, warm and effortlessly confident country music albums of the past few years.”<\/em> \u2013Jon Caramanica, The New York Times<\/p>\n

“…an unabashed, Southern-rooted, honest-to-gawd great country record.”<\/em>
\n\u2013 Chris Willman, Variety<\/p>\n

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\"Ashley<\/p>\n

When McBryde and her touring band settled into producer Jay Joyce’s studio a few hours before dawn to record what would later become the album ‘Girl Going Nowhere’, she felt uninhibited. It wasn’t the whiskey or the weathered J45 that helped the Arkansas native finally feel at ease; it was the permission she gave herself to make the record she had always wanted to create without worry of Music Row naysayers complaining she was too traditional, too rock or too tattooed. The result is her 11-song album, ‘Girl Going Nowhere’, out today (March 30th) on Atlantic\/Warner Bros. Nashville.<\/p>\n

“After 11 years in Nashville, you start to question if what you’re doing will actually connect. I think timing and experiences have a lot to do with it,” shares McBryde. “The time I spent being something I wasn’t just to try and please others, only to be told no; the time we’ve spent as a band playing for the attention of the bikers in the bar — doing anything we could to get them to listen; and now the timing of this message of ‘making the best of the worst day kinda night,’ it seems to be something people need to hear right now, and if I can even help one person turn their day around, then all these couch-surfing playing-for-tips-nights were worth it.”<\/p>\n

NPR’s Jewly Hight observes in a spotlight on Songs We Love, “McBryde sings with sanguine fortitude, and there’s a companionable, anthemic, underdog appeal to some of her best-known songs…But only a seasoned songwriter could’ve captured subtleties of committed affection the way that she did in ‘Andy (I Can’t Live Without You)’.”<\/p>\n

Seasoned yet staunch in her vision for Girl Going Nowhere, The New York Times calls the Arkansas-native’s album a “vivid and accomplished major-label debut.” The Tennessean’s Juli Thanki notes, “She’s captured thousands of new fans with forthright songwriting on topics ranging from addiction (‘Livin’ Next to Leroy’) to life on the road (‘Home Sweet Highway’), and her voice, which contains hints of Reba McEntire and Susan Tedeschi.”<\/p>\n

And the byproduct of making an album she wrote\/co-wrote in its entirety and recorded with her touring band? Girl Going Nowhere, an album that Associated Press declares, “has proven all those doubters wrong.”<\/p>\n

In celebration of the release, McBryde – who played in the UK for the first time earlier this month at London’s C2C Festival – makes her debut appearance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Monday ahead of a Los Angeles show at The Roxy on April 3rd, before rejoining Luke Combs on his US tour.<\/p>\n

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"If I can even help one person turn their day around, then all these couch-surfing playing for tips nights were worth it."
The new album 'Girl Going Nowhere' is available everywhere now! https:\/\/t.co\/zURc8sSkQR<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/y5y42mmcVz<\/a><\/p>\n

— Ashley McBryde (@AshleyMcBryde) March 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n