In praise of AshleyMcBryde's 'Never Will,' the hard-rocking country album we need right now. ellen_a_johnson breaks down the kickass new record from the no-frills singer/songwriter:
It doesn’t take much time listening to her music to realize Ashley McBryde doesn’t take any shit. On her major label debut, released in 2018, the Arkansas-born singer/songwriter positioned herself as an indispensable addition to the modern country canon. She offered a new badass edge, one that country traditionalists as well as the genre’s more progressive players could get on board with.
She began that 2018 album with the title track, singing the line, “Don’t waste your life behind that guitar.” She sings, “I hear the band / And where they said I’d never be is exactly where I am,” proving to all the people who told her she wouldn’t make it in this business that they were flat-out wrong. Cut to 2020, and not only is McBryde in an even better place professionally than she was two years ago, but she’s also at the top of her game craft-wise.
As crazy as it sounds, it’s still rare to hear a woman singing about whatever she wants on country radio. Maren Morris currently sits at the top of the Billboard Hot Country
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