Check Out Emily Earle’s Story

 

Today we’d like to introduce you to Emily Earle

Hi Emily, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I grew up mostly in Lubbock TX listening to Buddy Holly, The Chicks, Sheryl Crow, various family members who were putting out music at the time. I thought I wanted to be an author and wrote short stories that turned into a series of poems that by high school turned into songs.

Right before high school my family moved to Colorado Springs, CO. There I was told I couldn’t perform in the High School talent show unless I could accompany myself. I stayed up all night learning how to play “It’s So Easy” on guitar and auditioned the next day. I have been playing guitar ever since.

After High School I attended Berklee in Boston which led to an internship in NYC 3 years later. While living in NY I interned for Warner Music during the day and performed on the subway platforms at night to pay my bills. That first summer in NYC I joined my Uncle, Steve Earle, and his band for a 6 month tour where I helped nanny on the road and got to sing one of my own songs with the band.

After getting back to New York a rep from NBC’s The Voice stopped me while playing on the Rockefeller Train platform one evening and asked if I would audition for season 3 of the show. After a short run on Team Ceelo I moved to Nashville to focus on writing. There I started booking shows in Listening Rooms around the US and touring as much as I could. To save money I would book shows near grey hound stations. After a show I would sleep on a grey hound on the way to the next one. I liked to called these my first solo bus tours, they were fun right up until I woke up to my wallet and phone missing one day.

I signed my first pub deal in 2016 and my second in 2019. Went into the studio to record 6 songs and right when we got the mixes back the world shut down. During the shut down I stayed home and focused on writing. Wrote some of my favorite songs over a computer with some of my favorite writers.

In 2024 I released my first single “Rockstars”, and was named one of CMT’s Next Up Now Artists. This year I released “Cheaters” and am about to release my next single “Time Machine” in a week.

I have been lucky enough to have songs recorded by Steve Earle, Now United, Walker McGuire, Hayden Haddock, Jon Wolfe, and Kylie Morgan and to have shared the stage with Robert Earle Keen, Shawn Camp, Aaron Watson, Tanya Tucker, John Michael Montgomery and many others. I can not wait to continue to release and perform new music.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
The fun and tough part of music is that you aren’t fully in control. The road to putting music out has been far from smooth but smooth doesn’t always make for the best songs. It’s been a roller coaster of recording music, getting ready to release it, and then for one reason or another it not being able to be released. This current project was recorded pre shut down. The songs had a-lot of momentum going into 2020. I had an awesome team behind me and everything felt like it was falling into place. For the first time I really felt like I was in the right place at the right time with the right songs/recordings. There was some label interest in late Feb early March of that year that seemed to be heading in cool direction and then everything stopped. That stop hit at just the wrong time and long story short it all sort of fell apart and we weren’t able to do anything with the music until now.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a singer/songwriter in the Country genre. I write songs 4/5 days a week and perform them around town as well as in venues around the US. I have called Nashville home since 2013 and am proud to have been a full time musician for the most part the majority of my time in Nashville. I love what I do even the not so fun parts and I am never afraid to work hard at it. I think what sets me apart is my willingness to work hard and to go at it from a million different angles until I find the path that will allow me to get to where I am shooting for. I learned early on that every persons road to where they want to be looks different, and no just means “not this way, or not right here and now”. It’s never a final answer. Only you can tell yourself the kind of “no” that means, “no way no how, not ever”.

What do you like and dislike about the city?
I love that Nashville is a city of transplants. It creates a commonality between yourself and most people you meet here. I also personally love that its a mix between a town and a city. I grew up in Lubbock Texas and Colorado that had that smaller town feel, but I moved to Nashville from NYC, which obviously had the big city feel. Nashville for me is the perfect mix of the two. My family is still in Colorado and my husbands is in the DC area so Nahville is the perfect in between place for us to call home.

Dislike wise really just the traffic and how bad it’s gotten. That and the mosquitos.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.emilyearle.com
• Instagram: emiyearlemusic
• Facebook: emiyearlemusic
• Twitter: emiyearlemusic
• Youtube: emiyearlemusic
• Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/50ihxUsW8DWZYh3AMKzhLB?si=ukghugkHTYm0y3YGOi-8iA