In addition to the previously heard tracks, The Lemonade Stand features her most poignant ballad yet - one she’s never shared before. “It’s probably been the most beautiful part of this whole adventure, the idea of learning how so many of us feel similar things. “It takes an insurmountable amount of courage to talk to someone you’ve never met before and tell them about one of the greatest losses in your life, and the fact that you have questions for God, too,” she says. These conversations are sacred to Townes, and remind her how crucial it is to connect with strangers, to feel their pain and her own. They hear themselves in “Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking)” in particular. When she heads to the merch table after her sets, fans often open up about their own struggles. “These songs really have grown with me, and they have so much more meaning now because I’ve been able to play them for people,” she says. Named for a line from “Somebody’s Daughter,” Townes has savored the gradual build to her full-length debut as it encouraged her to reach new depths in her music while forging a deeper connection with her listeners. February 2020 delivered her Road to the Lemonade Stand EP that served as a first taste of The Lemonade Stand, which Columbia Nashville will release in partnership with RCA Records on June 26. Her amplified sound got the welcome it deserved as she opened for Lambert, Little Big Town and Dierks Bentley on the road, and she took home four honors at the 2019 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. 29 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart. The revamped version of “Somebody’s Daughter” followed as her first single that fall, which quickly reached No. Columbia Nashville released Living Room Worktapes by way of introduction.
“Somebody’s Daughter” grew deafening with thunderous drums, handclaps and a reverberating electric guitar line, while “White Horse” and “Where You Are” popped with driving beats and galloping arrangements as well.īy the spring of April 2018, Townes was, again, jumping in. He expanded her bare-boned tunes into full-bodied anthems, a craft he’d previously perfected through work with Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town and more. I like to be that storyteller and that witness because it makes me feel like I belong in a situation, but I’m also stepping away from it and zooming out a little bit.”Īfter signing with Columbia Nashville, Tenille connected with Joyce in the fall of 2017. “I like to write from that observer perspective because it gives me an opportunity to process my emotions. “My way of processing how I feel is writing songs and diving into music,” she says of her tendency to put herself in the listener’s shoes. Each track told a potent story: her buoyant voice soared over love songs like “White Horse” and “Where You Are” with their clever choruses, but “Jersey on the Wall (I’m Just Asking),” in which she questions her faith after a senseless tragedy, and “Somebody’s Daughter,” an empathetic look into the life of a stranger, proved she had the range to write through life’s most difficult challenges. After years of taking in sets at the Bluebird Café and pushing herself in writing sessions, she started winning over Music Row with the songs that would eventually shape her acoustic EP, Living Room Worktapes. We really built these songs from the ground up.”īorn in Grande Prairie, Alberta, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter earned accolades for her wise-beyond-her-years ballads before she moved to Nashville in 2013. “Within one minute of arriving, I had my guitar out. “He had yellow flowers on the stand by where the mic was set up, and was like, ‘Okay let’s do this!’” she remembers. She immediately felt at home in the musical sanctuary. A congregation of instruments - a cluster of guitars here, an organ over there - silently stood, waiting for them to get to work. Tenille Townes vividly recalls the first time she walked through the East Nashville church her producer, Jay Joyce, had transformed into a studio.
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