Ashley McBryde talks music, tattoos and Texas ahead of Freedom Over Texas concert July 4 in Houston

Ashley McBride He is a member of the iconic Grand Ole OPRY, and has received many awards, including Grammy, ACM and CMA Awards, and has been done in historical places.

ABC13 night had no exception.

McBryde was evoking the stage in Billy Bob TexasShe was described as the largest Honky Tonk in the world, elsewhere, The Fort Wort Stockards.

Behind the scenes in Billy Bob, the slogans of musicians and signatures decorate the walls, including McBryde.

Behind the scenes in Billy Bob, the slogans of musicians and signatures decorate the walls, including Ashley McBredide. ABC13 spoke to her before she took the stage.

That night on the main stage, her collection with “Rattlesnake Preacher”, a long song of the basic elements of her live shows and was recently released as a studio version.

It was written by a long time ago, the singer and lover of the loved song, Randal Clay.

“A few years ago, we lost Randal. He went to glory and did not leave” a sermon “who did not leave my group.”

“This year, when we started construction, we kept like,” Did the screaming snake belong to this? Do the screams belong here? no. Then we got to the place where we build this record, and we said, “We start with a snake, we must do so.

But this is not the only way in which the presence of Clay live.

McBryde praised the writer “Rattlesnake Preacher” in a tattoo form.

“Before he was a songwriter, he was a clown in the circus. I asked him about the circus, and said:” The circus). After we lost it, I advanced and put a circus clown poet on my arms, “you remember.

Bite

After years of playing music in Bars Dive all over the country, the first appearance of the McBryde brand, “Girl Nowhere”, began in 2018.

I have since followed this with many visits, including the individual song adopted by platinum, “Night Standards” and “American scandal”, some of which believed that some fans were a cheating song, but according to McBryde in your interpretation.

She said: “The song of love is not a cheating song, but this does not come back to me either.” I said, “I want somewhat to write a love song that looks like a love song. I want you to love me as it is wrong because I know how to feel. But I want to be so strong that we can photograph it. “When people are like,” look at these two, but they were together for 20 years. “He loved me this way.

The music video has a feeling and originality of love as much as it shows some of the McBryde more: performance, family, and tattooing.

“We did not have much budget at the time, and there was not much tattoo on my arms at that stage,” begins. And they said, “We would like to do a day in the life of” American Scandal. ” So I sent a text message to the tattoo artist and said: “Do you paint lipstick and pilots for me to get a tattoo?” It is like, “You will get a tattoo to make a music video?” I was like, “definitely.

The sons of McBryde’s Godchildren are also in the video, where they played in the yard.

It will be far from the only time that McBryde will show her family in her music, whether in the video or through words.

The song “Bible and 44” is a reference to her father.

“He always said,” As long as I have a gun and a book of sacred, I will be able to provide my family. “What is like,” Where are you from? But this is just Bill McPrey, ”she explained.

The song also praises her seriousness, although a gun rack on the back window of his truck, actually used it to house the hunting poles.

“Light on the kitchen” is the McBredide family method to say, “I love you.”

“To this day, after I wrote the song and sent it to Mama and the aunt, we changed,” we miss you “or” I love you. ” Someone thinks about you. There is a place you can go. “

Her mother, Martha, appeared in the “Light on the Kitchen” video. A reminder of her mother’s love is forever engraved as a tattoo in the form of a cup.

From the Citizen of Arkansas and the smallest of six, McBred knew that she was born to make music.

She wrote her first song at the age of twelve. Her first audience was her family, and her first stage was the kitchen of her grandparents in the center of Arkansas.

“I came there and said,” I will sing this song for you. “He was called” fought fire. ” from? Like, where did these feelings come from? I listened to countryside music when I was a child. I had information. I had no life experiences yet, but I had information. “

As it turned out, she might have information earlier than she realized.

McBryde has shared that she would connect a microphone to a cabinet player in her family and sings her heart. This was in addition to the Blu Grass festivals that she would have gone with her mother and brother, Dan.

Unlike concerts, festivals allowed the fans to visit the bands in the camps.

“I was sitting here with the little plastic gaiti and ascending to people,” hey, how do I play this thing? And they said that the man I saw playing the guitar knowing that I wanted to play the guitar, and it appears to me that the man I saw playing the guitar knows that I want to play the guitar, and he appears to me.

“My mom said I was walking through the stage,” I continued. “I was young and a group was playing. When they finished their song, of course there was applause. She said that I just stopped next to the stage and looked at the audience, and I definitely applauded and I thought it was for me. She said:” I knew when I was young until I was mistaken. “

July 4 first

The fourth of this year will be one to celebrate at least a couple for anger. She never spent on July 4 in Texas or performed her performance at Freedom Over Texas at Eleanor Tinsley Park so far.

However, it is not alien to play big stages in Lone Star State. I made it Rodohoston For the first time as a special guest of George Strait in 2022 before taking matters as major laws in 2023.

“It is one of the favorite things we have ever done,” said McBredide. “80,000 people, but still feel the personality. The only way I think is possible is that people should be. The culture that surrounds it should be.”

McBryde explained that the Houston Rodeo experience is also different from that it and her team actually to see the event. Traditionally, Rodio actually happens inside the place before artists’ parties.

“I love watching the bull’s riding because the level” I will do “has a bull passenger that your bronching passengers enjoy, and know that it may not work. There will be only one person at the top of the plate at the end of this, and this way in what we do for a liveli

While McBryde ABC13 has told Watch Freedom Over Texas Firefire games for her, her lighting days are likely to be already in the past.

This is in a great contradiction with what she and her brother, Dan, used to do.

She said: “We used to go and buy a total of the bottle missiles, and we will put on the basements of the baseball, and we will have wars of the beggar missiles, and how we have all our fingers and eyes and we have no permanent injuries, I have no idea.

Joan Arkansas

Besides being a singer and talent singer, McBryde is also famous for the colored tattoo.

She told ABC13: “If you see pictures of me as a child, you will never think that this girl grows up to cover her with tattoos. But she is doing it.”

McBryde described one piece of ink especially noticeable, a picture of a blindfolded girl on it, “Be brave”.

“I moved to Nashville when I was 23 years old. I didn’t know anyone and I was walking in that blindly, believing that he would be fine,” she said. “This is what (her tattoo artist) drew for me. I had no idea at the time that I would end along the tattoo.”

When her star rose, McBryde started attending more red carpet events, so she needed to know how to wear clothes for this occasion.

She said: “I am Joan from Arkansas. I have always been in a shirt and shoes. I have no idea how to walk in the heel, and there is no idea how to work in a corset or a long bra or with the bones.

This is when she turned to Nancy tattoo artist to get a little additional assistance.

McBerdy explains that she draws her tattoo through her body as a way to show her history, similar to the way it is done by Bahar.

For seas, the ship means that you went to certain sites, but McBryde describes itself as “highway seas”.

“At this stage, what will go through my chest?” McBre said she asked Nancy. It was between the eagle or the ship.

And she said, “It should be an eagle. If you want to walk in a bar full of sailors, and you saw a man wearing an eagle on his chest, you know that he was walking in every inch of every mile he was. So it was only appropriate. It was not surprising that after the end of that, it was more similar to me. “

According to McBryde, her tattoo includes a little of everything, from one she got in Dublin, Ireland, because a girlfriend lost a bet but did not want to get a tattoo alone to the one that depicted her first graphic.

Despite the time she spent in Texas, she did not get a tattoo in the state of Lun Star.

“Perhaps we should do this on July 4,” she said temporarily in Denton, Texas.

A girl goes to a place

The song “I did not want that girl to be,” Duo with Carly Pierce, got her first mourning in Grammy.

As McBryde described, the team with Peres seemed to be a match made in heaven.

“My publisher asked me,” What artists do you want to write with? I said, “Carly Pears.” I remembered, they asked her the same question and said my name. “

The song will continue to be the first Grammy victory for Pearce as well.

Six times a mascara was nominated and shocked when I heard her name.

“My face still feels, as you know, when you retreat on an office chair? That’s what they say when they say,” Grammy goes to … “It seems as if someone shot you into my office chair. How is romantic.”

When you do not register a mascara, which was recruited as a member of Grand Ole OPRY in December 2022, you can call it “Dr. McBryde”, and after you obtained an honorary doctorate from music from Alma Arkansas State University.

“I really wanted to get this degree in my hands. My path was different,” she said. “I knew that I wanted to do it for a living, but I also had such a heart to teach music, and I thought about my soul, I am definitely responsible for creating other musicians. It turned out that I was doing it differently from what I thought.”

It is not bad for a girl who does not go anywhere.

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