American country music singer Ashley McBryde was born in 1983 in Arkansas. Ashley spent her formative years growing up in Mammoth Spring, where she learned to play her father’s guitar and began writing her own music as a teenager. While in college, McBryde self-released her first album, just before moving to Nashville to pursue a career as a performer full-time.
McBryde began to garner attention after winning the Country Showdown two years in a row, in 2009 and 2010. A Southern US tour followed, but it was the EP Jalopies & Expensive Guitars, released in 2016, which brought her talents to the intention of record labels and other artists, such as Eric Church, who invited Ashley to perform alongside him at one of his concerts.
Shortly after the performance, Ashley McBryde’s signed with Warner Music Nashville and entered the studio to prepare for her debut album. Before its release, the single
“A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” became her first top forty hit, rising to the number thirty spot on the US Country charts. The album, Girl Going Nowhere, followed to critical acclaim and commercial success, spawning the additional singles “Radioland” and “Girl Goin’ Nowhere.” It rose to the number seven spot on the US Country charts, the number four spot on the UK Country charts, and made it’s way into the top fifty on the US mainstream charts. McBryde also won her the ACM New Female Vocalist of the Year award and a CMT Music Award for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere,” setting the stage for a career that has suddenly catapulted Ashley to stardom.
Ashley McBryde recently wrapped production on her next studio album, slated for a 2020 release. The first single off the album, “One Night Standards,” arrived in September of 2019. McBryde also recently received her first Grammy nomination, for Best Country Album.
