Tessy Lou William 8pm Tuesday 18 August 2020
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Type: Country Music
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Tessy Lou Williams was born to sing. Her parents, Kenny and Claudia Williams started the band Montana Rose and nurtured a love of making and performing music into a family business of sorts for their three children.
"I continue to play music because there's literally nothing else in the entire world I'd rather do," Tessy Lou says. "It's tough, it's trying, it has its loneliness and isolation from the rest of the world, but it's also incredible. This world is the only one I know and the only way I know how to exist."
As Tessy Lou prepares for the release of her first solo album, after a lifetime of songwriting and a decade of performing professionally, it's important to note the journey to get here—the rural roots, the paralyzing case of stage fright she once had, the move across the country to find her own place in the world and make her own music. The heartbreak that inspired this batch of 10 songs. It all culminates in her solo debut, a self-titled effort that introduces her sound to a new group of listeners: deeply rooted in traditional influences, with her spin on western culture. These are the kind of songs you'd want to be playing on a dancehall stage when you walk in or emanating from the jukebox when the band isn't there. It's the perfect soundtrack for a two-step or a waltz just the same—or simply sitting back and enjoying well-crafted country music.
"These songs are country as hell, they're each unique, personal and embody heartbreak that we can all relate to," she says.
Written primarily in Nashville, and recorded at Station West, also in Nashville, Tessy Lou and producer Luke Wooten collaborated with an ace band including Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo, mandolin), Mike Johnson (pedal steel, dobro, pedalbro), Aubrey Haney (fiddle), Ashley Campbell (banjo), and background vocals from Carl Jackson, Jerry Salley, Jon Randall, Wes Hightower and Brennen Leigh, just to name a few.
"As the list of songs grew larger and we were playing these songs live, people kept asking when they would be available. I had been wanting to do a new album and knew the transition from the band to my solo career was in the near future. The more time I spent going between Texas and Nashville, the more clear the idea became to me. I knew I wanted Luke Wooten to produce it because I knew he could truly bring these songs I love to life."
The album begins with "Your Forever Will Never Say Goodbye," a tried-and-true country tune with Tessy Lou joined by legendary bluegrass instrumentalist and songwriter Carl Jackson on background vocals, followed closely by "Why Do I Still Want You" which wrestles with a goodbye —looking to biblical advice that can seem a little foggy in context.
"Mountain Time in Memphis" marks Tessy Lou's first Nashville co-write, with Jerry Salley. "I quickly realized how amazing co-writing could be, and I'm endlessly grateful that my first experience in a blind co-write was with Jerry. I'm absolutely in love with this song and its encapsulation of how hard choosing between love and life can be."
"Busy Counting Bridges," another co-write with Salley, offers another up-tempo take on heartbreak, finding the narrator "busy counting bridges that I've burned."
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