Tenille Townes on how she’s been interacting with fans over the past year:
“We’ve had a few really cool actually, Zoom thing in clubs like virtual hangs, which those have definitely gotten me through this past season. Being able to see everybody’s face is so much more fun than just getting to message, which I also love that. We’ve been doing different, we have a road phone, so people text in and I get lots of cool Instagram messages. I always love hearing from everybody in those ways, but we did one a little while ago for some of this new music that’s coming out and seeing these young girls in their t-shirts just jumping around, singing along in their kitchen is pretty cool. It’s like, “Okay, there is a way to make the best of this time where we’re far apart from each other.” And I think it’s going to make it all the better once we get back to in-person because there’s nothing quite like that.”
“I wrote that song with two friends of mine that I had not met in person before. And we sat on a Zoom call and wrote the song and I’ve been learning how to record my own vocals past year in Logic, which is also something I’ve never done before. Sent the checks over to David, who produced it. And the song came partly from walking around my neighborhood. I’ve just been pacing a lot this past year, something about putting one foot in front of the other feels therapeutic, and noticed lots of sidewalk chalk art from neighbor kids and like hearing them playing in the backyard. And it’s like, “Man, to just have that wonder and the courage that they have to just see the world as something awesome. And to really not care what anyone thinks or not care about how far away a crazy dream is. That’s something that I want more of in my life now.” So it was really fun to talk about that and channel that in writing the song.”
“It’s insane. I still can’t even believe that’s real life because when I first moved to Nashville, I used to actually go to the Hall of Fame every weekend because on Saturdays they had a songwriter show. So I’d go and hear all these incredible writers and then you’d have your general admission ticket for the day. So I’d just walk through and every time I’d go, I’d see something that I’d never seen before. And I just am like, “I have the biggest heart for the history of country music. I love it so much.” So that was a really surreal, to get to be a part of that. I did get to go and check it out and shed couple of tears looking at it. And my parents came to visit at one point and I got to bring them too, and we definitely had a good emotional moment, taking that in…It’s weird. It’s very weird for sure. It just doesn’t quite feel real. And you look down just a staircase below, there is Mother Maybelle Carter’s guitar and Dolly Parton’s Jolene lyrics and it’s like, “What? This is crazy.”
