"We're not going to have if we don't start playing on the radio. "It's been frustrating for years, writing for just phenomenal country women artists, who are just such badasses, and they just get shut down at radio immediately," Hemby laments. The Lilith Fair era of women artists left an indelible mark on her - as a woman, as a music fan, as a songwriter and an artist - so it only makes sense that she would strive to do the same in her work. Listing off her influences for this album, Hemby mentions Sheryl Crow and Bonnie Raitt earlier in the conversation, she gushed over Amy Grant. "Whenever I set out to make this record . "He moved to Nashville for country music, thinking it was gonna be more like Whiskeytown or Wilco," says Hemby, who wanted Pins and Needles to ooze 1990s sounds and styles and, therefore, knew he'd be perfect for the job. Hemby once again enlisted her husband, Mike Wruke, to produce.
"You just don't know until you walk through these doors what other doors they lead to," she adds. And I saw all of the work that went into that," explains Hemby, who credits her role in the Highwomen with giving her the platform to make those same things happen for herself as a solo artist.
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I learned a lot about how to build up your team. Her invitation to join the Highwomen, though, changed those plans. Hemby had begun working on Pins and Needles well before her new label entered the picture she figured, as with Puxico, she'd make the album, do some press for it, put it out and see what happened. that record I never got to make,'" says Hemby, who landed her first publishing deal at the age of 19, but only recently signed her first solo record deal, with Fantasy Records.
"After, I was like, 'Okay, that record was a soundtrack, and it was a love letter to my family and my hometown. This record is, comparatively, a bit more freewheeling: 11 songs co-written with Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Morris, Sunny Sweeney and others, often in long-ago writing sessions, that have sat unreleased until now.
8), Pins and Needles is Hemby's second solo album, following 2017's Puxico, which doubles as the soundtrack to a documentary about the annual homecoming celebration in her grandfather's Missouri town.
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