Canadian singer Tenille Townes listens in the studio of Nashville producer Jay Joyce while recording her debut album. At fifteen, she organized a fundraiser called Big Hearts For Big Kids benefiting a youth shelter in her home town.
“My grandparents bought my first guitar when I was 14 and I started reworking cords and see how I could put them together, and how I could incorporate journaling and poetry that I had been doing. “When you come off a show and you’re out on the road and it’s like Neverland out there. This is just what I get to do today.' What we got instead was the 24-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter's spare acoustic EP, Living Room Worktapes. Tenille Townes is country music's newest big star.
Jersey On The Wall (I’m Just Asking) 4. Somebody’s daughter” from her song “Somebody’s Daughter” her voice has a timber to it, like an aged soul that’s harvested decades of experience and stories passed down from generations to generations. She’s never operated by the clock or the calendar. She worked on songs that would eventually be on her acoustic EP, Living Room Worktapes, which dropped in 2018 after she signed with the record label Columbia Nashville. I nodded my head as I read the message, because it makes sense to connect the quirky, personalized nature of Townes' delivery to indie folk singer-songwriters. But she, and those in her corner, seem to recognize that she's an heir to Twain and Swift, Griffin and McKenna alike, as well as a potential peer to figures like Morris and Musgraves, who've built significant followings and visibility with strong, self-written material and middling radio support.
She operates from her heart, and from her soul. she grinned. "This next season is a little bit of a question mark to me," she admitted. The song is designed to be played live and you can imagine a huge sing-a-long at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire at some point in the (hopefully) not too distant future. Over the summer, I had the honor of attending a private concert by… "I'm not exactly sure how this part works. While other kids were reading Shakespeare and studying, Townes added the craft of famed songwriters like Carolyn Dawn Johnson to her workload, developing her own narrative style before most other teenagers even headed to prom. But she seems more giddy than anxious about what's ahead, whatever it may look like. After she won, Townes told People she was "still freaking out about" her awards, admitting, "I'll never forget that Zoom call as long as I live." “I am a huge Patty Griffin fan – I’m inspired by the raw, vulnerability of her voice,” Townes said. Entertainment Focus is a trading name of Piñata Media Limited (Reg no: 08435639)
Required fields are marked *. “I’ve always craved what it felt like to step into other people’s shoes. And that’s because Townes’ heart is huge. “The people in my community are pretty remarkable, they’re extremely generous,” Townes said. The Country icons are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a hits collection. All rights reserved, delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. By the time I sit down with them, they've often been coached in how to handle themselves, project the right image and promote their official narrative. See more of Tenille Townes on Facebook. When new artists test the waters in the country format, it's not at all unusual for an EP to precede an album. At 15, she wrote her first song and released her first album, "Real." It was an anomaly when Sam Hunt and Walker Hayes released acoustic mixtapes; they were borrowing a hip-hop move, a way of building buzz around an act that either has or wants indie cred. “We’ve raised over 1.5 million…that’s what music is for to me – to bring people together.