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<\/p>\nCMT recently caught up with Ashley McBryde where she spoke of an encounter with Miranda Lambert. The two singers have a lot in common and seem to have a mutual respect for each other. Read more below to see how they got on..<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think the first mainstream country female artist to have a ton of faith in me was probably Miranda Lambert,\u201d McBryde told CMT.com. \u201cWe played LakeShake in Chicago, and she and Karen Fairchild (Little Big Town) and Gwen Sebastian stood side stage and video\u2019d part of our set.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not nerve-wracking at all,\u201d she joked.<\/p>\n
That was not even two years ago when the artists collided in June 2017. The night that Lambert was headlining the main stage, both McBryde and Lucie Silvas were playing the festival\u2019s Next From Nashville stage where Lambert walked over to see their shows.<\/p>\n
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McBryde said that after her performance that night, Lambert came up to her and asked her to join her when she was watching Silvas\u2019 set later on. \u201cI was like, \u2019Yes!\u2019 And she was like, \u2019And you should come to Wanda tonight and have a drink with me.\u2019 And I was just like, \u2019Holy [expletive].\u2019 So yeah, I think she was the first big female voice to believe in me,\u201d McBryde said.<\/p>\n
While Lambert was busy believing in McBryde, McBryde has been busy believing in the kind of truth-based stories that Lambert and other females are known for. Especially songwriters like Lori McKenna and Matraca Berg. \u201cThere are lines in their songs that make you so beautifully uncomfortable with how real it just got. And you\u2019re like, \u2019Gah! How do you do that?\u2019 I think the cool part of country storytelling is that things are very simple, and we\u2019re super honest about it. If your daddy was an alcoholic, sing about your daddy being an alcoholic because somebody else\u2019s daddy is, too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
And McBryde\u2019s approach to collaborative songwriting \u2014 something she did on all but one of the tracks on her debut album\u00a0Girl Going Nowhere<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 is to ask herself two questions: Do we like it? Do we believe it?<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to sit me down and go, \u2019This man produces hits. Record one of his songs,’\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just got to be organic.\u201d<\/p>\n Tonight McBryde plays London’s Shepherds Bush Empire as part of her UK tour but unfortunately has not included Northern Ireland on this occasion, no Irish plans have been announced either.<\/p>\n