​Ashley Monroe (from the album Dear Nashville

​Ashley Monroe (from the album Dear Nashville

​Ashley Monroe (from the album Dear Nashville available on Mountainrose Sparrow) (by Danny McCloskey)
 
Titling her latest release Dear Nashville, Ashley Monroe kicks off the album with an open letter in “I Hate Nashville”. The track, and the album, are themed by Ashley Monroe’s 23-year love/hate relationship with Music City. Co-produced, and co-written, with Luke Laird, Dear Nashville airs the constant questions circling in the head of a career musician when it asks “What Are We” as a low rumble of rhythm wraps like a swirling mist surrounding “Haunted”. The slowly unraveling melodies of “Steal” laundry lists a series of characters wandering through the last-night city story as Ashley Monroe finger-points accusations as she takes a seat on the roller-coaster ride of Nashville, Tennessee.
 
The idea for the real-life that became a guiding light for Dear Nashville came from a songwriting session. Ashley Monroe recalled that ‘I had a writing session on the books with Luke and I’d woken up that morning with a storm in my heart, like, ‘my gosh, have I done this all for nothing?’. When I got to Luke's house that day, I knew I had to address my hurt feelings and get it out of my system. I told him the idea of “I Hate Nashville” and he loved it. That song put everything into motion. We felt the window of all the muses open, and decided that I’m going to say what I feel and make it a whole project’.
 
The music hushes underneath the whispered confessions in “Getting’ Out of Hand” as a revolving rhythm cradles “Having It Bad”; Dear Nashville closing its doors on the final track that puts the fears, the insecurity, the hopes, and the faith in her chosen home in “Quittin’”. While the stories revolve around the professional side of the music business, there is a romantic spin in the songs. Ashley Monroe feels that ‘the bottom line of the album is I wish you loved me like I love you’. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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