Singing affirmatively about queer people — on an album featuring two openly gay country acts in Brandy Clark and T.J. Osborne — has also thrust Ashley McBryde into the culture war raging in Nashville over how inclusive the genre is or should be.
“We weren’t worried about what it was for,” she says of the music. “We just had to love it.”
Beyond its debt to Linde, the result showcases a songwriting craft — and a sense of empathy — clearly influenced by John Prine, to whom McBryde grew close before his death in 2020. “Ashleyeverything,” John Osborne says. “She’s just so well versed in the human condition.” And yet you can view the intricate character studies on “Lindeville” as a very private woman’s way to deflect fans’ interest in her personal life.
McBryde says she began playing bars when she was 19. “And I traveled alone — 60,000 miles a year in my truck with my dog and my own PA,” she adds. “Nothing will reshape your belief system like that. ‘No one hangs out in bars except bad people.’ Actually, no, it’s super-open-minded people whose goal is just to be in the same place as other people trying to find joy.”Singing affirmatively about queer people — on an album featuring two openly gay country acts in Clark and T.J.
“I think Nashville had such an idea about what I should be that now I don’t give a f— what Nashville should be,” she says, explaining that when she got to town, she was advised to lose weight and to dye her hair blond to match a stereotype her success has helped dismantle. “I tend to lean more inclusive, but I don’t really draw a lot of hard lines, especially in public. If you don’t like tattoos, don’t get one. If you’re against gay marriage, don’t marry a gay person.
She thinks for a moment. “Country music has always striven to appear as a nice person,” she says. “But I would love to see us be a good person.”
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