This is an I-Heart podcast.

Guaranteed human.

I'm here, and technically I can leave, but we're far enough out in the middle of nowhere,

that I wouldn't know what direction to go.

Hi, I'm Ashley.

I'm evidently a drunk. I'm a big fan of our next guest, Ashley McBride.

She's a Grammy, CMA, and ACM award winner, so she has all the awards. She's a member of the

Grand Ole Opry. She is one of the most respected songwriters in Nashville. You're going to love

Ashley McBride if you didn't know her. If you already know her, you're going to love her even more. From Girl Going Nowhere to One Night Standards, both jams, to light on in the kitchen. She's built a career on telling it exactly like it is. She's got a brand new album on the way. She's already dropped some new songs. What If We Don't?

In Arkansas Mud. She's also headlining her redemption residency up at Chiefs in Nashville

where it's a non-alcoholic redemption bar. She's hitting the road with Eric Church.

As you can tell, I'm a massive fan. Here she is. Fellow Arkansasan, Ashley McBride.

Ashley, good to see you? Good to see you. I was listening to your song Arkansas Mud,

and I don't pay attention to a lot of words. I'm so much a melody guy. Even like some of the songs

that I've known my whole life, I don't even think I know the words of them yet. But I was listening

in the first line, just from memory, I think, is percassette, Adderall, nicotine alcohol, throwing dishes down the hall, bad mistakes. I've tried them all. Is that right? Yeah, bad decisions, tried them all. I love that. Thank you. Yeah, that was really good. Thank you. So, I don't know. Talk about that song and that lyric. Because, I don't know, is that real? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And I think it, when we were making the video for it, and we were talking about, we need to get footage of how I used to be after shows, after events, after like, because when it went off the rails, it went off the rails in a big way.

So, and as I've had to say over the last three years, I'm a drunk.

And if you find yourself wanting to be like, no, you're

not, that's how good I am at it. I've had people say, I never really saw you as much of a

drinker. And so now I can say if you were around me prior to three years, nine months, six weeks, and however many days ago, I was drunk.

Sorry.

I am sorry.

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