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Ella Langley

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One of country music's most exciting young artists, Ella Langley, stops by the podcast for the first time to talk about her debut studio EP 'Excuse the Mess,' working with Koe Wetzel on "That's Why We Fight" and how it came to be, growing up in Alabama and some her musical influences, her writing process, playing college bars and moving to Nashville to pursue music, and so much more.

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0:00.0

All righty, Ella Langley finally get to meet you sort of via Zoom but we were just looking

0:21.8

actually it's crazy. Our first blog about you was in 2018. Yeah, it's crazy. It was a West

0:33.0

posted, uh, he did a how the chillers cover of nose on the grindstone. Um, the journey from

0:41.5

that point to now we'll get into but overall, if you want to think fans, it's really interesting

0:48.8

reading your bio kind of how you got started. You were in school. You're going to Auburn.

0:54.3

But then when did the music thing really seem like a reality like, oh wait, no, this is something

1:00.0

I'm actually going to go pursue versus go get the nine to five type of thing. Uh, well, to be

1:06.0

completely honest, this is what I've wanted to pursue forever. Um, I think it's just, I mean,

1:11.1

I don't remember a day thinking out wasn't going to somehow do music. I just didn't honestly know

1:16.4

what that was going to look like. Um, this just always been what I wanted to do. I've never,

1:21.0

ever wanted the nine to five. I think I just went to college because, you know, that was the next

1:25.3

thing for me to do. And, um, so I mean, I've been singing is, I mean, before I could even talk,

1:31.9

I mean, I've been playing at church at every family reunion. Anytime I had a guitar, my parents,

1:37.5

my mom's parent, my dad's parents are just super musically inclined. So like every time we're

1:42.8

around them, it's just music constantly. And so, um, when I went to Auburn, I think that's when I

1:48.0

saw the change a little bit. I started to do those covers and y'all shared them, which was like,

1:53.2

what? You know, I mean, it was so cool. Uh, and that's kind of where I started to like, all right,

1:59.2

I'm getting a little bit of traction. You know, it started from playing a restaurant gigs to,

2:03.2

can you turn the drum set down? It's like, oh, we can't turn it off. We can quit play and, you know,

2:10.1

going from, you know, being at Auburn and then doing those restaurant gigs to then kind of

2:14.5

getting in the college bar scene of what that looks like. And I had a band and we were just kind

2:19.6

of running that, the, you know, southeast of playing all the college bar markets, you know,

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