One of Nashville’s Best Songwriters on Why Her New Album Was Nine Years in the Making

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One of Nashville’s Best Songwriters on Why Her New Album Was Nine Years in the Making
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Plus what she learned from her mother, who’s co-written some of Taylor Swift’s biggest hits.

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a bad rap about comfort zones. “Let’s get you out somewhere where you can really figure something out, where you’re super stressed out, and alone.”Oh yeah, it’s very chill. Making this record here was great. Unfortunately, I also think a big part of making records for me is about the hang. And if the hang’s not good, the record’s not either.

Your mom is a country songwriter, who came to it a little bit later in life, but has co-written with Taylor Swift and Lori McKenna. Is there anything that you have learned from the way that her career developed that has been useful to you?I grew up in a house that was generally full of people who just loved music and who weren’t ashamed to share it. I mean that’s how my mom started, was just being in a room and occasionally piping in and having a great idea.

I’m sure she always had a very creative tendency. It had never been tapped. And I think that’s probably the case with a lot of, especially women: Nobody ever says, “Hey, I actually think you could do this,” or encourages them to try. And she ended up being pretty good at it.William Tyler played guitar on many of these songs. He is the person on this record, other than you, whose work I know the best.

I had no plans to track a record. I wasn’t working with a label. I was literally just existing in a sad little void. And they asked me to do a David Berman tribute—to sing a Silver Jews song at a club called Dark Matter. And it was William, Jack Lawrence, Brian Kotzur, Luke Schneider. This group of people represented the Nashville that I had missed a lot, in a lot of ways.

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