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THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE - Ashton Shepherd Feature
Five questions with Ashton Shepherd
By Bill Lynch
Staff writer
Advertiser
WANT TO GO?
Ashton Shepherd
WHEN: 9 p.m. Friday, September 4.
WHERE: Tomahawks Smokehouse and Saloon, 5930 MacCorkle Ave, St. Albans
COST: $19
INFO: 304-201-2070 or here
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Country singer Ashton Shepherd is managing to balance a music career and motherhood just fine, thankyouverymuch. In 2006, the 19 year-old mother won a contest in Gilbertown, Ala. and got to open for country star Lorrie Morgan.
A record executive was in the crowd, thought Shepherd had promise and signed her to a record contract a few months later. She released a respectable debut album, "Sounds So Good," and charted with two singles, "Takin' Off This Pain" and the titular "Sounds So Good."
The Gazz caught up with Shepherd in advance of her show Friday night at Tomahawks. Now 23, Shepherd says she's busy working on her follow-up album
Q: Here we are at the end of the summer. How was yours?
A: Laid back. I've been doing dates here and there. I've had a week or so at home, then a week or so on the road. I did some canning from my garden and wrote some new music.
Q: What's the most interesting place you visited this summer?
A: We toured a lot of places, but for me Washington and Montana. It's just such a different country than where I'm from. I'm from low Alabama, and it's just totally different. It was just some of the prettiest country I've ever seen.
Q: How is life on the road and life at home different for you?
A: At home, I'm your typical mama and wife. The best thing that ever happened to me was having my husband and son before my career started. It's kept me grounded. A few years ago, I used to want to go out more when I got home. Now, I just like to stay around the house, visit with my family. My parents are only 30 miles down the road. My husband's parents are next door.
With the road, I take for granted how fun it can be: the playing, the traveling and the laughing. It's fun. After the show, I hang out on the bus, have a few beers, and it's great. Of course, there are no beers if my little boy is with me.
Q: You mentioned working on new music. How's that going?
A: I've got about 20 songs I've written over the last year. I'm not one of those people who pound out songs or a song a day. I try to let them come as they may. I think that's kind of what makes them more real. They aren't forced.
Q: Are you performing any of the new songs yet?
A: I'm keeping them mostly to myself. Every once in a while, I'll get a wild hair and play something extra acoustic, but mostly I'm keeping the lid on the jar closed for now. The record company is thinking we're going to release a single in January. There will probably be a new record by next September.
9/3/2009 Sounds So Good
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