ASHLEY MCBRYDE HITS ROCK BOTTOM WITH “BOTTLE TELLS ME SO”
On the heels of announcing her fifth studio album, Wild, out May 8 via Warner Records Nashville, Grand Ole Opry member and GRAMMY®, CMA, and ACM award winning singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde gives fans a fourth early offering from the anticipated project today – “Bottle Tells Me So.” Listen HERE.
A brutal, bone-deep truth teller and whispered portrait of the morning after an alcohol-fueled bender, “Bottle Tells Me So,” written by McBryde with Shelly Fairchild and Terri Jo Box, paints a sobering picture.
From the taste of things, it must’ve been Marlboro Reds
From the shape I’m in, I must’ve barely made it to the bed
There wasn’t a good time poured over ice and sip it slow
For the bottle tells me so
If I can find my phone, I bet I need to apologize
The only problem is, I can’t remember to who or why
And whatever day it is, it’s going to be a long one I know
For the bottle tells me so
One of us is going to break one of these days
If this ain’t bottom it’s as far down as I ever want to go
The party’s over and as always, I’m the last one to know
For the bottle tells me so
“When I was drinking, it was much easier to turn off my inner critic as I was creating,” notes McBryde, who got sober in June 2022. “But over time I learned I needed to acknowledge that voice, tell her she’s no fun to work with, and then try to tap into the younger version of me—the one who couldn’t handle all the things she left behind in Arkansas, and who ended up drinking to soothe herself. I had to tell her, ‘Okay, the alcohol’s gone and you’re scared—so, do it scared. You’ve been through worse, and you made it out all right.’”
“Bottle Tells Me So” is accompanied by a powerful official music video today, directed by Brandon Campbell. The clip picks up where the official music video for last release “Arkansas Mud” leaves off – McBryde waking up in her makeup in a motel room, retracing the steps of a blacked out binge.
“Bottle Tells Me So,” “Arkansas Mud,” “Rattlesnake Preacher,” and current chart-climbing single to country radio “What If We Don’t” lay the four-corner foundation of Wild, tracing a captivating narrative that culminates in the moment just before McBryde quit drinking nearly four years ago.
From the grit and grind of growing up in the shadow of Arkansas’s Ozark Mountains, to the enduring echo of her fundamentalist upbringing; the fallout of drinking too much and hard-won reckoning that led her to sobriety to the trauma passed down through her lineage. When matched with McBryde’s thrilling collision of timeless country and blistering rock & roll, the result is equal parts daring autobiography and courageous reclamation of her most untamed nature. Pre-add / pre-save / pre-order Wild HERE.
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