Album: Girl Going Nowhere by Ashley McBryde (2018)
Genre: Country
Record Label: Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville
Format: Album

Description: Girl Going Nowhere is the third studio album and major label debut by American country music artist Ashley McBryde. It was released March 30, 2018, through Warner Bros.Nashville. 
Jay Joyce is the album's producer. Rolling Stone described the content as "heavy on hooks and set to a radio-friendly blend of heartland riffs and pop-country. But it's also a gently left-field statement for Nashville".

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Lainey Wilson, Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, 2010s, Album, Atlantic/Warner Music Nashville


Girl Going Nowhere is the third studio album and major label debut by American country music artist Ashley McBryde. It was released March 30, 2018, through Warner Bros.Nashville. 
Jay Joyce is the album's producer. Rolling Stone described the content as "heavy on hooks and set to a radio-friendly blend of heartland riffs and pop-country. But it's also a gently left-field statement for Nashville".

Album: Elsebound by Ashley McBryde (2011)
Record Label: Ashley McBryde
Format: Album

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Lainey Wilson, Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album, Ashley McBryde


Album: Never Will by Ashley McBryde (2020)
Genre: Country
Record Label: Warner Music Nashville
Format: Album

Description: "Never Will"  is the fourth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde. It was released on April 3, 2020 via Warner Music Nashville. The album is McBryde's second major label release and was preceded by the lead single "One Night Standards".

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Lainey Wilson, Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, 2020s, Album, Warner Music Nashville


"Never Will"  is the fourth studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde. It was released on April 3, 2020 via Warner Music Nashville. The album is McBryde's second major label release and was preceded by the lead single "One Night Standards".

Album: Wild by Ashley McBryde (2026)
Genre: Country
Format: Album

Description: Ashley McBryde doesn’t want to tell you how to feel after you listen through Wild, her fifth studio album—but she knows how she wants you to feel. “Imagine it’s really, really hot outside, and you’ve got your dad’s leather jacket on,” she tells Apple Music. “You just ran up a long driveway, and then you got into the house where the air is on, and you’re taking the jacket off. Or maybe you’re even standing in the front yard, and you get to take that jacket off and let it fall. I want you to go get on your bicycle and lean up against the handlebars and put your arms out and ride down the road. That’s what I want to happen to you.”

Shrugging off a weight that no longer serves you—be it a heavy coat, an abusive relationship or something more abstract—and savouring the freedom that follows is a theme that permeates Wild, even if that release is hard-fought or a pipe dream. Produced by John Osborne of Brothers Osborne, Wild lays bare difficult and life-changing truths about family, faith, inheritance, addiction, marriage and so much more. 

She may be belting with all the might of her lung power on “Rattlesnake Preacher”, a full-throttle, Delta blues-invoking production that conjures the memory of her man-of-the-cloth father, or barrelling down on her guitar on the anthemic “Arkansas Mud”. But Wild has its tender moments, too, where the lyrics are loud and resonate in ways that have nothing to do with volume.

“My bread and butter is acoustic-y, fingerpick-y songs that pull on my guts,” she says, and Wild serves up ample helpings of that—namely on the stunning “Bottle Tells Me So”, a candid look back on the epiphany that led her to sobriety (“If this ain’t bottom, it’s as far down as I еver wanna go”). “Lines in the Carpet” is a brilliant, poignant portrait of the unseen labour that can rot a marriage. “Hand Me Downs” has McBryde directly confronting familial trauma (“Daddy’s anger and his pride/My mama’s sadness, she taught me how to hide/There ain’t a damn thing that’s ever just been mine/I’m out here walking around in hand-me-downs”). 

None of these songs was easy to write or record—“Hand Me Downs” was especially difficult for her, knowing her mother would eventually hear it—but McBryde didn’t make Wild with the intent to coast. The healing, much like feeling the wind at your back on your bike, could come only after the work, and she’s known that from the start.

“With this record, I had to figure out that part of the reason I was angry-slash-afraid was feeling unseen, feeling unheard,” she says. “And then, putting this record together, I decided I’m not going to tell a story about a lady in a trailer park who won’t wear her bra. I’m not going to tell a story about a guy who has a meth problem. I’m going to tell this story. Fear of never being heard and seen turns into fear of being known. And that was kind of crazy to grapple with, but it made for a great process.”

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Lainey Wilson, Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, 2020s, Album

Ashley McBryde doesn’t want to tell you how to feel after you listen through Wild, her fifth studio album—but she knows how she wants you to feel. “Imagine it’s really, really hot outside, and you’ve got your dad’s leather jacket on,” she tells Apple Music. “You just ran up a long driveway, and then you got into the house where the air is on, and you’re taking the jacket off. Or maybe you’re even standing in the front yard, and you get to take that jacket off and let it fall. I want you to go get on your bicycle and lean up against the handlebars and put your arms out and ride down the road. That’s what I want to happen to you.”

Shrugging off a weight that no longer serves you—be it a heavy coat, an abusive relationship or something more abstract—and savouring the freedom that follows is a theme that permeates Wild, even if that release is hard-fought or a pipe dream. Produced by John Osborne of Brothers Osborne, Wild lays bare difficult and life-changing truths about family, faith, inheritance, addiction, marriage and so much more. 

She may be belting with all the might of her lung power on “Rattlesnake Preacher”, a full-throttle, Delta blues-invoking production that conjures the memory of her man-of-the-cloth father, or barrelling down on her guitar on the anthemic “Arkansas Mud”. But Wild has its tender moments, too, where the lyrics are loud and resonate in ways that have nothing to do with volume.

“My bread and butter is acoustic-y, fingerpick-y songs that pull on my guts,” she says, and Wild serves up ample helpings of that—namely on the stunning “Bottle Tells Me So”, a candid look back on the epiphany that led her to sobriety (“If this ain’t bottom, it’s as far down as I еver wanna go”). “Lines in the Carpet” is a brilliant, poignant portrait of the unseen labour that can rot a marriage. “Hand Me Downs” has McBryde directly confronting familial trauma (“Daddy’s anger and his pride/My mama’s sadness, she taught me how to hide/There ain’t a damn thing that’s ever just been mine/I’m out here walking around in hand-me-downs”). 

None of these songs was easy to write or record—“Hand Me Downs” was especially difficult for her, knowing her mother would eventually hear it—but McBryde didn’t make Wild with the intent to coast. The healing, much like feeling the wind at your back on your bike, could come only after the work, and she’s known that from the start.

“With this record, I had to figure out that part of the reason I was angry-slash-afraid was feeling unseen, feeling unheard,” she says. “And then, putting this record together, I decided I’m not going to tell a story about a lady in a trailer park who won’t wear her bra. I’m not going to tell a story about a guy who has a meth problem. I’m going to tell this story. Fear of never being heard and seen turns into fear of being known. And that was kind of crazy to grapple with, but it made for a great process.”

Album: Lindeville by Ashley McBryde (2022)
Genre: Country
Format: Album

Description: Lindeville, also referred to as Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, is the fifth studio album and third major label release by American country music singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde, released on September 30, 2022, by Warner Music Nashville. Recorded concurrently with her fourth major label record, Lindeville is a concept album centering on a fictional town that is home to the various characters that appear in McBryde's songs and is named in tribute to famous songwriter Dennis Linde. The album was produced by John Osborne, McBryde's close personal friend and member of the duo Brothers Osborne and features a close circle of McBryde and Osborne's collaborators.

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Lainey Wilson, Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: Country, 2020s, Album


Lindeville, also referred to as Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, is the fifth studio album and third major label release by American country music singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde, released on September 30, 2022, by Warner Music Nashville. Recorded concurrently with her fourth major label record, Lindeville is a concept album centering on a fictional town that is home to the various characters that appear in McBryde's songs and is named in tribute to famous songwriter Dennis Linde. The album was produced by John Osborne, McBryde's close personal friend and member of the duo Brothers Osborne and features a close circle of McBryde and Osborne's collaborators.

Album: The Devil I Know by Ashley McBryde (2023)
Format: Album

Artist Background: Ashley McBryde is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Jalopies and Expensive Guitars which was released March 10, 2016 via Road Life Records. Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Related Artists: Brandy Clark, Carly Pearce, Caylee Hammack, Miranda Lambert

Music Scene: Part of the Mammoth Spring, AR music scene. Emerged in the classic era. Associated with Country movement.

Tags: 2020s, Album


An Ashley McBryde album is more than just a collection of songs. The acclaimed singer-songwriter creates entire worlds on her records, filling them with quirky characters, familiar places and tall, tall tales, as especially evident on 2022’s Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville. With The Devil I Know, McBryde pairs some of that world-building with a bevy of musical influences, including bluegrass and rock ’n’ roll, that breathe an easy, expansive life into the project. Backed by her live band Deadhorse, McBryde sounds vibrant and electric, imbuing songs like the gut-wrenching “Learned to Lie” and the playfully clear-eyed “Coldest Beer in Town” with strength and raw emotion. 

As she shares with Apple Music, The Devil I Know is McBryde’s fullest expression of her artistry, and herself, yet. “I kept trying to—and others helped—pigeonhole myself into just being this, or just being this part of my identity,” she explains. “It feels so much better to just go, ‘Oh, it turns out I'm just a complete person, and this is what it looks like and this is what it smells like and this is how fast it can run. And it can't jump very high, but it's very entertaining.’” Below, McBryde shares insight into several key tracks.

“Coldest Beer in Town”
“Every bar has a sign that it's the ‘coldest beer in town’ or it's the ‘best cheeseburger in town’. And not every single one of them has that. And then you realise as you get older, so that was just like, ‘Hey, dude, if it's buy one, get one, the first one wasn't free.’ ‘I will love you forever’? It's not true. ‘I will move a mountain for you’ and ‘I'll never hurt your feelings'? Also a complete lie. But to be able to wrap all that up and just go, ‘Hey, it's cool. Every bar doesn't have the coldest beer.' You found something out today. Adorable.”

“Learned to Lie”
“I called Mom after we cut it and talked both her and my stepdad through the lyrics, and I said, ‘I just want you to know it's on the record. It's going to hurt, but it's not untrue. I didn't lie about anything.’ And she was very understanding about that. It's not that this song is only about me. Once a listener hears it, it's whatever you're drawing from. That is what the song is about, and if you had family members that behave that way. But it was difficult to look at that: ‘I wish I had learned how to love the same way I learned how to lie.’”

“Single at the Same Time”
“Nobody in the song is going to cheat. They're just saying, ‘I wonder what would've happened.’ My favourite thing so far about this song is playing it in an intimate setting, whether we're playing it off the record for someone to listen to or I'm playing it live. When you play it for a group of 20, 30 people, watch their faces and find out who has one of those [relationships]. And when that person crosses their mind, the look that's on their face and the way their shoulders change, and even if they're just thinking, ‘Oh, I wish I could've said that to him at some point. We could've had that conversation.’”

“Cool Little Bars”
“I don't know which work tape Jay [Joyce] got, but he thought this was a sad song and he hated it. I'd hate it too if it was a sad song and I'm like, ‘Why are we setting it up this way?’ Then we go in to really make the record, and I said, ‘I don't know why you don't like this song.’ He was like, ‘It's so sad.’ I said, ‘It's not a sad song at all. This is like a hell yeah kind of a feeling.’ He said, ‘Well, I'll tell you what, why don't you sit down, just grab a guitar and sit down. Let's all sit in a circle. Teach me the song like we're on your porch and see if I get it.’ He looks at Chris [Harris] and he said, ‘Grab a bouzouki. Quinn [Hill], grab whatever you want.’ Quinn grabbed the tiniest little djembe that he had under his armpit. He threw Matt Helmkamp a resonator guitar. He was like, ‘Just play that on a res. Let's jam porch-style on this.’ And we did.”

“6th of October”
“The very first line of the ‘6th of October’ is ‘I threw up this morning in Christiansburg, VA.’ So at the time, [co-writers] CJ Field and Blue Foley and myself were at my house. This is back when I lived out in the middle of the woods, and we had a co-writer and best friend, Randall Clay, and this is probably six or eight months after he passed away. And we are on the porch to write together—we're not going to write about Randall, we just want to invite his spirit to be with us. He's just the most amazing songwriter that I had ever had the pleasure of writing with. And CJ's like, ‘Man, this one time I pulled into Randall's driveway, and he was in his underwear and a T-shirt and he was smoking. He had socks on, on the porch.’ And I just threw out this line, and he took a drag, before he even blew the smoke all the way out of his lungs, he finished the line.”

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