If case you haven’t been paying attention, Jason Aldean released his brand-new album, They Don’t Know, last week (Sept. 16) and has been touring the Northeast—including selling out Fenway Park in Boston—while making appearances on Good Morning America and The Tonight Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Needless to say, Jason has been busy, but he made time to talk to NCD about the title track to his album in this exclusive video.
“It’s a song that talks about people that live off the beaten path and the people that drive through there and sorta look down on it,” says Jason in the video. “Similiar to ‘Fly Over State’ lyric where it’s like you kind of look down on something you really don’t know much about. The end of the day, the people that are there, they’re proud of it.
“It’s one of those songs—you listen to the lyric and you realize it’s a pretty solid song. It’s not a big up-tempo party song. It’s actually a pretty solid song. It’s right in our wheelhouse. That kind of song is right in the sweet spot for us.”
Jason is currently sitting in the Top 15 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart with his current single, “A Little More Summertime,” and wowing crowds across the states with his Six Strings Circus Tour featuring opening acts Thomas Rhett and A Thousand Horses. Jason will perform in Hershey, Pa., tonight (Sept. 15), followed by stops in Virginia Beach, Va., (Sept. 16) and Philadelphia (Sept. 17).
Watch Jason describe the title track of his new album, They Don’t Know.
Justin Moore released his third consecutive Billboard No. 1 album, Kinda Don’t Care, in August. Currently, he’s enjoying a Top 5 single, “You Look Like I Need a Drink,” while he hits the road with tourmates Brantley Gilbert and Colt Ford.
Justin is having such a great 2016, it’s hard to believe he’s already looking forward to 2017. But he is. The Arkansas native recently revealed he’s got something special up his sleeve for the new year.
“We’re out on tour with Brantley through mid-October, which has been a blast,” says Justin to NCD. “It’s been awesome. His crew and band and everybody has been great, he’s great, and Colt Ford is out there with us, who is another great friend of not only mine but Brantley’s as well. We play a lot of golf out there. I’ve played a lot of bad golf, Colt’s played a lot of good golf. Then when we finish up with Brantley’s tour, we’re going to do something we haven’t done in a couple years, which is another headlining tour. I’m really, really excited about that. We have something exciting in the works for the beginning of next year. I can’t say yet, but I think folks are going to be excited about it, too.”
Lisa talks with Kimberly, Reid and Neil of The Band Perry about hair color, their new personal single, “Comeback Kid,” their recent challenges with record label changes, pop music rumors and more.
In 2015, Mickey Guyton blasted onto the country music scene with her power ballad “Better Than You Left Me,” written about moving on from the heartbreak of an ex-boyfriend. After hearing of the ex’s braggadocious ways, Mickey did what any self-respecting songwriter would do—she wrote another song about him.
Mickey’s current single, “Heartbreak Song,” which she says is the answer to her first single, tells it like it is and hopefully throws this guy to the curb once and for all.
I ain’t gonna hit you with a heartbreak song / I ain’t gonna give you what you’re betting on / ‘Cause boy you don’t deserve a single word / Don’t know if you heard / I forgot all about you,” Mickey belts out in the chorus.
NashCountryDaily.com sat down with Mickey to talk about “Heartbreak Song” and to get to the scoop on this ex-boyfriend of hers. “He’s my muse,” she tells us.
Can you tell me a little bit about your current single, “Heartbreak Song?”
Mickey Guyton: “‘Heartbreak Song’ is the answer to my first single, ‘Better Than You Left Me.’ I wrote ‘Better Than You Left Me’ right after I finally stood up to my ex-boyfriend, and I’d finally just said no. He just gave me the runaround for years and I finally stood up for myself. That was kind of like my empowerment moment. While I was on tour with Brad Paisley last year—I was in the windy city of Chicago—what ended up happening, some of his family came to my show, because they’re from Chicago. I was made known that he was going around bragging that I wrote a heartbreak song about him. So I hit him with ‘Heartbreak Song,’ and this is kind of my little, ‘Hey babe, I’m good . . . I’m good.'”
So no more songs about him after this?
Mickey: “Well, maybe—I mean, I still have some break-up song. He’s my muse. Whenever I need to go in that place, I channel him, but I’m okay with that. I’m just thanking him because all this material that he’s giving is helping me. I’m still winning.”
This is quite different than “Better Than You Left Me.” This is more of an upbeat, fun song. Did you want to make a conscious effort to do something different?
Mickey: “It’s just important that people see all sides of me, and that has always been a side of who I am. You see one person one way in a song, but there’s just other colors. I’m a Gemini, so there’s a lot of different sides of me. 100 percent I wanted people to see that side of me, the fun side. I love singing power ballads, but I also love singing fun songs, too.”
photo by Jason Simanek
Right now, you are the only African-American female singer in the genre. You’ve had some success in the business and you seem to be really hitting your stride. Do you consider yourself a trailblazer in your career?
Mickey: “I’m with myself everyday so I don’t really view myself as that. Then I get messages on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter from different girls, not just women that are African-American, but I get women from Hispanic descent and from all different racial backgrounds that are like, ‘Thank you for opening the doors for a lot of us.’ You don’t think about it when you have your blinders on and you’re just trying to get to the next point in your career. This is what I grew up—this is just who I am. It’s kind of crazy that people see it like that because I’m just a girl from Texas that likes to shop.”
How did you fall in love with country music?
Mickey: “In Texas you don’t really have a choice. That’s what you’re surrounded with. My first music background was really in gospel music. I was in the church and that’s how I learned how to sing. It wasn’t until—I’m from Waco, Texas—and it wasn’t until my church group went on a trip to go to see a Texas Rangers baseball game. I was maybe 8 or 9 years old and LeAnn Rimes was 10—she was singing the national anthem at the baseball game. This was before ‘Blue’ came out. I was just completely mesmerized at this girl, who’s pretty much my age, who could sing like a grown woman. She was like an anomaly at that time. It was over for me there.”
You recently met your idol, Dolly Parton. Tell me what that experience was like?
Mickey: “Oh my gosh. Everybody knows my love for Dolly Parton—I love her music, but I just love her as a whole. She’s everything right with the world in my personal opinion. I did an interview with CBS This Morning with Gayle King about a year ago. Gayle teased me, and was like, ‘Oh, come on out Dolly’ and I freaked out. So for about 9 months [Gayle] started planning on surprising me. I was on the ACM red carpet last year and I was going to get to interview [Dolly] but they ushered me off the red carpet. I was like, ‘Dang it.’ I really wanted to meet her but everybody was orchestrating a way for me to meet her. So back in May I get a call from the label and they were like, ‘Oh, Gayle is in town and she wants to catch up and see what’s going on. But just come camera ready because I know you all probably want a photo.’ I wanted to be cute for Gayle [laughs]. So I’m sitting in my car for an hour and a half and didn’t even realize we were at Dolly Parton’s studio. I walk passed all of her equipment that says Dolly Parton all over it. I sit down in the chair in front of Gayle and Gayle’s like, ‘So what’s going on?’ I turn on my interview side and I’m talking about the great things that are starting to happen. Then Dolly comes walking around the corner, and I’m like kicking, screaming, crying, snotting myself, the whole thing. She was so sweet—she wiped my tears, so I can now sell my face on eBay. She’s amazing. She’s every woman. She represents all of us and that’s what I love about her.”
“Heartbreak Song” is currently available on iTunes and Mickey is in the studio putting the finishing touches on her upcoming debut album, due out in January.
Born: Charlotte, N.C. Lives: Nashville Age: 26 Single: “Hurricane” Album:This One’s for You (coming this fall) Influences: Vince Gill, Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, Eric Church Twitter:@LukeCombsMusic
Inside Scoop
After picking up the guitar at age 21 while attending Appalachian State University (Eric Church’s alma mater) in Boone, N.C., Luke Combs began playing gigs around his college town and developing a passionate fan base. Luke released a couple of EPs in 2014 before moving to Nashville two years ago to follow his dream of becoming a country star. This fall, Luke will release his debut album, This One’s for You, featuring the lead single “Hurricane.”
Early Inspiration
“I grew up listening to Vince Gill and Brooks & Dunn. Those were the two I was singing at 5 and 6 years old. My first concert I ever went to was Vince Gill. I was 6 and my mom and my grandma told me I was going to a minor league baseball game, but they were really taking me to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater to see Vince Gill. We left early because it started thunderstorming and I started crying. I made it halfway through, but that was a great first concert [laughing].”
Boone Town
“I spent five years at Appalachian State University. I loved Boone. That’s where I started playing. I grew up singing, but I didn’t start playing guitar until I was 21. I was kinda bored one summer and just kinda learned the basic chords and progressed from there. I’ve been singing ever since I could talk. It’s something that came naturally to me. It’s something I gravitated toward in school and church and around the house. I was singing all the time.”
Nashville Bound
“I came to Nashville in 2014, and I just wanted to play, but I wanted to play my stuff. I kept telling people that I’ve got fans, I needed to get shows. I knew I could bring people to the venues, and then I put ‘Hurricane’ out in June of last year on my own. I had just singed a booking deal. I had a few shows, then ‘Hurricane’ did really well and the shows just kept picking up. So we’ve been touring hard now for the last year—three shows a week for a year. We just announced a West Coast tour that starts in mid-September. We’re going out West to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, California, Texas, Arizona. It’s 30-something days, 22 dates. Busy is good.”
New Album
“This One’s for You comes out this fall. It’s got 12 songs on it. I co-wrote every one. I think it’s a good synopsis of who I am. I don’t think there’s one track that sounds the same as another. It’s not in one lane. From track to track it’s different every time. That’s the way I approach my writing. I don’t go in and say I need to write a song like ‘Drink in My Hand’ by Eric Church. I just go in and the best song that I have in me comes out. I’m not afraid to put it out there. I have a couple different favorites on the album. ‘Hurricane’ led to me having the opportunity to make the album, so I love that song. ‘I Got Away With You’ is probably my favorite written song on the album. It’s a little slower love song. Very broken down. We play one song live called ‘Honky-Tonk Highway,’ and it closes the album out. That’s my favorite song to play live because it gets the crowd going.”
My Sound
“My sound is honest. I know sonically that doesn’t help, but I think for me it is what it is. I don’t go into the studio with my producer and say ‘Let’s try to have a song that sounds like a Justin Moore song or a Jon Pardi song or whatever.’ It’s just whatever comes out, I’m really OK with that because I don’t want to do any song injustice by trying to make it sound like something that it’s not meant to be. I just roll with it. What you see is what you get. Each song on the album is a different snippet of my life at some point. I really just what people to see my depth. I’m just an average Joe who writes music that I hope people can relate to. If someone connects with one song on the album, that’s a success for me.”
Influences: Hank Williams Jr., Patsy Cline, Diamond Rio, Vince Gill, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday
In Brief: Growing up in a musical family gave Sarah Dunn the motivation she needed to begin a career in country music. At the age of 13, with her mother on the keyboard, Sarah started playing in honky-tonks and dive bars. Fast forward 12 years later and Sarah, 25, is now fronting the Sarah Dunn Band and recently released a new EP, Wild Wild Heart. Sarah wrote six of the seven songs on the EP, including her current single, “Dirty.”
A Mother’s Love
“I’ve been singing my whole life, as far as I could remember back, at family get-togethers as a really little girl and at church functions, things like that. But it was about the time I was 13 that I really wanted to start a band. That’s all I could think about really. I came to my mom and asked her if we could do this together because I knew, at my young age and not really knowing where to start, that it would be a difficult thing to do. Thankfully she was right on my side and a huge champion for me getting started. We just scrapped together some equipment and started doing auditions for local musicians. We started our own group and just played wherever we could get our foot in the door. At that time, it was just honky-tonks and bars and dives, not the best venues in the world, but a really good start and really a good learning experience to do that for about eight years. It was really a good time to discover how I was going to be onstage and how to talk to an audience. Mom played keys for me for eight years and we sang backup vocals together. There’s nothing like that family harmony. We’ve been singing together forever. Whenever she started playing piano, not having a lot of money and being from the poor side of town, that was our entertainment—sitting with mama at the piano and sitting and playing together.”
The Sound of Sarah
“Wild Wild Heart is sort of a throwback to the days of the Mavericks and Diamond Rio and Dwight Yoakam. We wanted to give it a very classic feel. Some of the songs we wanted to have kind of a haunting and timeless sound. As far as the content of the songs, we wanted it to tell a story that everyone could relate to. For example, ‘Rent’ was a song I wrote when I was having a lot of struggles in my life. It was the struggle of just being able to make ends meet. You know, working two jobs and never having enough at the end of the day. That’s a universal struggle, that’s not something that was unique to me. So when I wrote the song I realized it could reach out and touch someone so they would feel that they are not alone in that. With this EP we want to uplift and we want to touch people with our music.”
The Haggard Effect
“I’ve always loved Merle. I can pretty much put my finger on the first time I saw him. It was a Sunday afternoon and I was watching reruns of Hee Haw that came on every Sunday after church. I was watching that with my mom—I was about 5. Merle Haggard came on as a guest and he was a younger man at the time it was filmed. I was completely mesmerized even as a little kid. I turned around and looked at mom and said ‘He is so handsome, he can sing, I’m going to marry him.’ She just died laughing and said ‘He’s old enough to be your grandpa.’ I said ‘I don’t care.’ That started my love affair with Merle. I feel like he embodied country music. He was just an amazing artist and really the embodiment of what I feel is country music. When I heard that he had passed away, I was heartbroken. I was on my way back down to Nashville to finish up the EP. I got the news and I was just stunned. So I thought ‘Man, he’s been such an influence on country and so many people out there. I don’t even know how many hits he’s had.’ So I made a list of all the songs I could think of off the top of my head. I was looking at the list, and I know that’s not all of them, but I thought ‘These titles, you can fit them together.’ I thought ‘Why don’t I?” I sat down and wrote this song, ‘All My Best.’ It really came from my heart. Not only does it mention all his titles but it’s about how it will never be quite the same without Merle Haggard.”
Current Single: “Fight Like A Girl” Current EP:The Y2K Mixtape Hometown: Portland, Maine Age: 22 Influences: Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Dolly Parton Twitter: @kalieshorr
Inside Scoop
Growing up in Maine, the youngest of seven kids with a single mom, Kalie Shorr wrote her first song at the age of 6 and started a Nirvana cover band in middle school. Admittedly, Kalie had many different musical influences early on, but she knew Nashville was where she needed to be. After high school, Kalie arrived in Nashville, where she now takes the stage performing on the weekly live show Song Suffragettes held a the Listening Room. Kalie released her debut EP, The Y2K Mixtape, in March, which includes her current single, “Fight Like a Girl.”
In the Beginning
“I grew up in Portland Maine and lived there my entire life. I was raised by a single mom, she’s a total badass. She’s part of what inspired ‘Fight Like a Girl.’ There is a lot of country music up there, and I think people don’t necessarily think Maine and country music. But I’ve ridden a tractor down the main street of my hometown. It’s pretty country.”
Family Affair
“Seven [kids] all-together. Technically eight, but one passed away when she was a baby. There are seven of us but I’m the youngest. My mom and dad were both married before they had me. My mom had me at 40 so she could not hide the fact that I was an ‘Oops.’ She said I was the ‘best oops that ever happened to her.’ It was definitely an oops, nobody tries to have a kid at 40. My siblings are so great and I love all my siblings. I think my music taste is a little bit older than it should be because I’m the youngest of seven. When I was 6-years-old my sister was giving me TLC CDs even though I was technically 1 or 2 when [TLC’s] Crazy Sexy Cool [album] came out.”
The Road to Nashville
“My schedule was so crazy, I would go to school at 7:30 in the morning. I had two classes that would go until 10:30. Then I’d get into work at the pizza shop at 11 a.m. I would work at the pizza shop from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then from 5 p.m to 9 p.m I’d go and work at a clothing store. That’s pretty much what every day looked like for me. The weekends I would work 10 a.m to 8 p.m. just to save up. I didn’t get to see much of my friends. I went to a really great high school that is super supportive of kids in the arts. They worked with me so my schedule could just be two classes in the morning. Then I finished school in December of my senior year. I ended up staying in Maine so I could work full-time and just make as much money as possible because I had no idea what it would look like when I got to Nashville—if I would be able to find a job or not. It was a long road to get to Nashville and it was not easy, but I think it definitely made me realize how much I really do want to do this.”
The Truth
“I thought that women and country music went hand in hand and by the time I got to Nashville I was like ‘oh no, we done goofed along the way guys.’ It’s crazy because historically when females do break through, they soar. There is no brand like Shania Twain. That was kind of the first thing to turn me on to country music. I was a huge fan of Alannis Morissette. I was probably 13 or 14, breaking up with the rhythm guitar player in my first band, and I heard her song ‘You Oughta Know.’ There’s that line ‘When I scratch my nails down someone else’s back I hope you feel it.’ I was like ‘Oh sh*t’ I didn’t even know, we had only made out, I mean God bless it. But I was like if she could say that in a song, then I can say anything. You don’t have to hold back. I think that was the moment I was like ‘I just want my songs to be honest.’ I don’t have any lines like that in my song but it kind of empowered me to realize that you can tell the story any way you feel like it.”
Fighting Like a Girl
“‘Fight Like a Girl’ is about the times in your life you don’t have the option to run away from it. You either want to get to that finish line so bad or life just hands it to you. If you get diagnosed with cancer you don’t get to run away from that. The only option you have is to fight. My mom’s a breast cancer survivor and she loves the song. She identifies with it. I wrote it about continuing to push on in the music industry and fight for that record deal when I was in town at the time that nobody wanted to give me one. It just got a life of its own through the way people interpreted it. It really taught me a lesson about what the song is about because I thought I knew what the song was about. It’s so much more than that. It’s about not running and if you get knocked down five times you get up six. I could not think of a better song to introduce my music.”
Jason Aldean has had a busy few days. In addition to releasing his new album, They Don’t Know, on Sept. 9, the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year played back-to-back nights at Boston’s Fenway Park on Sept. 9 and 10; he performed in Hartford, Conn., on Sept. 11; he stopped by Good Morning America on Sept. 13; and he hit the stage on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Sept. 13.
There’s no rest for the weary as Jason is back on the road for his Six String Circus Tour on Sept. 15 in Hersey, Pa.
Check out Jason’s Tonight Show performance of “A Little More Summertime.”
Born in the small town of Custer County, Okla.—population 1,200—Jared Deck was always looking for an adventure. He found plenty of them as he worked a number of jobs, including on a farm, in the family’s grocery store, in the oilfields, in a factory, starting his own business and running for political office. Regardless of the job, music always seemed to be calling him. After fronting the cowpunk band Green Corn Revival from 2009–2015, Jared decided to pursue a solo career. With a sound reminiscent of Bob Seger, his self-titled debut album contains 11 self-penned songs, including the current single “17 Minutes.” Jared can next be seen playing AmericanaFest at Nashville’s 3rd and Lindsley on Sept. 22.
Early Start
“That group [Green Corn Revival] lasted nearly six years and my writing style changed. I just started writing different types of songs. You get to this certain point where you’re like, ‘Man, this music thing hasn’t worked out’ and I never was full-time on it, but it never really went the way I thought it was going to go. Living in western Oklahoma, there was never that older, wiser person saying that this is what you need to do. We had no idea what we were doing. We were just trying to book shows and trying to record and do everything on our own. There were a lot of dues paid without very much benefit. A lot of mistakes made, a lot of failures and a lot of lessons learned. It really put me in a position where whenever I started writing differently and that project was fading out, that it put me in the position where I was like, ‘well, I’ve learned all these lessons and now maybe I can put them all to good use and start doing things on my own and take off on a solo career.’ I think it worked really well.”
Small-Town Sound
“I’m an Americana songwriter because the idea of Americana encompasses original American music. Whether that ranges from country to gospel to rock and roll to folk music, jazz and blues—that’s an encompassing thing. I probably would say, especially with this record, Americana country is how I would, if I was going to stick a label on it, that’s what I’d call it.
“What’s real popular where I live is the Red Dirt and Texas County. I enjoy all of that too and I’m somewhat part of that scene, but I feel like what stands out about this record is that this record also has an R&B side to it as far as some of the grooves go. I like that. I like that it stands out a little bit. There’s a lot of our culture that values sameness. Everybody has the same type of phone. Everybody has the same type of this or that or everybody likes this. You live in this world and you think how do you stand out in a world that values sameness. The answer is, you just do what you do and just allow that to stand on its own two feet.”
Storyteller
“The stories on this record, these are stories that people, where I live, actually live every day including myself. I hope that people takeaway that honesty and I hope that people relate to it. As a writer, I think about all the songs that inspired me growing up—all the songs that touched me at that right moment and I think it’s a very lofty goal because you would love for your song to be that for someone else. It feels arrogant to say something like that. Like I said, I hope people takeaway that honesty because I hear the songs on the radio and they’re all about everything’s so great, life is so awesome. I’ve got money, I’ve got the best vehicle, I’ve got all these things and I’m like, ‘man, that is so awesome. Where do you live?’ I think that the reality is that we all fail at things. We all fail at little things daily and at big things in life. Part of this record for me—I wouldn’t go so far to say it’s about overcoming failure because I don’t feel like it’s that noble—I think it’s more about just dealing with failure, grinding it out.”
Art Imitates Life
“I live in Weatherford, Oklahoma which is 17 miles away from the town I grew up in. My dream growing up was that I was going to leave Oklahoma and never look back. I tried a couple of times actually and failed miserably. There was one time in particular where I was mad at the world. I’d had a falling out with a friend and I said ‘I’ve got to go. I’ve got to get out here. I packed up my car and I literally got 17 miles away.”
What he’s listening to – Jared’s Playlist 1. “North Dakota” – Lyle Lovett 2. “Don’t Try To Explain” – Keb Mo 3. “I Don’t Know How You’re Living” – Lucinda Williams 4. “If I Had a Horse” – Ryan Beaver 5. Jimmy Webb
It’s not a joke. It’s not just a catchy line. I can tell you the intersection. It was highway 54 and Davis Street. I literally had a flat tire. I did not have a spare because I wore my spare out 3 months prior and didn’t get a new one. No one was answering the phone so I had to call a tow. I had $300 on me and the tow was $120 and that was it. That was as far as I’d gotten. That’s where I live now.”
Finding a Hero
“When I was working at the factory, I had two friends. I worked back and forth between two departments. I had one friend in the lab and I had another friend on the manufacturing side. They were both telling me about this music, they both liked music. They knew each other, but they weren’t really close friends, which plays into this. One of them is telling me about this band called Rank and File from the early ’80s, this cow-punk band. He’s like, ‘This is where it’s at.’ He was an old punker from the late ’70s, early ’80s and he loved new wave. They’re both about 20-30 years older than me. This other friend—who’s more into folk music and Americana stuff— he says, ‘Oh man, I’m going to go see this guy Alejandro Escovedo. You should go see him with me.” Then everything comes full circle and I realize that Alejandro Escovedo was in Rank and File. I really got to know both sides of him all at the same time in a round about fashion. It’s like I was loving the Rank and File stuff and then I was loving the singer/songwriter stuff. Then it was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, he’s in both bands. He’s the same guy.'”
No Regrets
“The thing is these small towns, whenever you’re young, you feel like they’re pushing you away but then when you’re older, you feel like they’re sucking you back in and pulling you back in. To get out of the hometown is an emotional thing for a lot of people. I’ve never left my home county. That’s just the fact of it. It doesn’t mean I wouldn’t be open to it, but at the same time it’s like—Now, it’s taken me a long time, but I’ve finally figured out a way to succeed from where I live and not have to move to Nashville or Austin or New York. At one point in time, I wondered and I almost regretted not having moved off 10 years ago to some big city—but I don’t think I would trade where I’m at now for any of that.”
Louisiana native Hunter Hayes and some of his singer/songwriter friends performed an impromptu concert at Nashville’s Basement East last night (Sept. 13) to benefit Louisiana flood victims.
The night’s performers gather onstage.
Over the course of the four-hour showcase, Hunter was joined onstage by CJ Solar, Jacob Davis, Courtney Cole, Benjy Davis, David Borne, Brent Anderson, Ross Ellis, Rick Huckaby and Lainey Wilson.
In addition to playing a number of tunes from his catalogue, including Billboard No. 1 hits “Somebody’s Heartbreak” and “Wanted,” Hunter treated fans to a new ditty, “Yesterday’s Song,” which he released last week via SoundCloud.
All proceeds from the show benefited the LA Flood Relief Fund—and you can still donate online at braf.org.
Check out the video of Hunter performing his new tune, “Yesterday’s Song.”
In Brief: Growing up in a musical family gave Sarah Dunn the motivation she needed to begin a career in country music. At the age of 13, with her mother on the keyboard, Sarah started playing in honky-tonks and dive bars. Fast forward 12 years later and Sarah, 25, is now fronting the Sarah Dunn Band and recently released a new EP, Wild Wild Heart. Sarah wrote six of the seven songs on the EP, including her current single, “Dirty.”
Storyteller
