Singer/songwriter Allie Colleen is perhaps anticipated to have just a few issues in frequent musically along with her father—he’s, in any case, nation legend Garth Brooks. However the reality can be virtually the alternative; whereas she grew up loving music as anybody would possibly, her father’s music wasn’t actually a serious affect on her personal artistry, and his influence on the business wasn’t actually part of her childhood. As an alternative, she has chosen to carve her personal up to date nation path, releasing unique singles for the previous three years after incomes a level in songwriting and the music enterprise at Nashville’s Belmont College.
Allie Colleen’s first full-length album, Stones, was launched final week, initially in bodily type solely, and options the lead single, “Playin’ Home,” which is out there for streaming. Written with Nashville writing pals Billy Dawson (Adley Stump, Jess McEntire) and Jason Matthews (Gretchen Wilson, Luke Bryan), the tune is a narrative of home discord that does have one factor in frequent along with her dad’s music, in that it makes use of a pedal metal guitar. Allie Colleen known as American Songwriter from her residence in Nashville to speak in regards to the tune and a few recommendation she took from her dad.
“I received actually fortunate writing with Billy and Jason,” she stated. “’Playin’ House’ was an concept I most likely took into 5 co-writes, and [other writers] simply weren’t digging it, or regardless of the case was, no one had written it with me. I confirmed it to Billy and Jason they usually ended up writing it with me, and I’m so glad they did, it got here out good. It’s actually the tune that we’ve had the longest out of a complete bunch of songs. It was March 2019 once we sat down and wrote this tune, and we actually needed to steer the brand new album with this one.”
One noticeable affect her father has presumably had on her: the identical approach Garth typically does, Allie Colleen incessantly makes use of the phrase “we” as an alternative of “I” when she talks about something profession associated, all the time ensuring different persons are given due credit score for her successes.
The place most artists can run a listing of people that influenced their work, she doesn’t actually identify many individuals when requested about who conjures up her. She’s virtually effervescent, although, when talking about one nation artist who additionally occurs to share her affinity for tattoos.
“I feel Ashley McBryde is the good cowboy on the planet,” she stated. “I feel she’s so superior. To see any individual like Ashley McBryde, writing the stuff that she writes about, produce the best way she does, she doesn’t sound like anyone else—that’s been an enormous motivator for me. I completely love to observe her do what she does.”
“Vocally, there’s actually no one I feel I sound like,” she continued, “and I don’t actually appear like anyone both. And I’ve received a number of tattoos, and that’s probably not current so much in nation music. Lots of people like to speak to me about them after reveals, they usually discover out it’s about Scripture, my tattoos are Biblical, one thing I’m pleased with.”
The place some artists construct their careers strolling by way of doorways which can be open due to connections within the household enterprise, Allie Colleen has chosen to chart her personal course. However that doesn’t imply her father hasn’t given her just a few pointers alongside the best way. “I don’t actually have [those] enterprise connections,” she stated. “However ever since I used to be a child, my dad has taught me principally one lesson, and that’s to place your head down and work. If I wasn’t the place I needed to be the place I used to be in soccer, it’s as a result of I didn’t work. If I wasn’t the place I needed to be at school, or with my pals, or simply with myself, the reply was all the time to place my head down and work. So it by no means actually crossed my thoughts to do it another sort of approach.”
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