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On May 7, 2013, Pistol Annies released their second album Annie Up.On June 17, 2013, the RIAA announced that the album and single for Hell on Heels had both sold in excess of 500,000 copies, giving Pistol Annies their first Gold Record.
Membership
She is a member of the female country trio Pistol Annies.
“She’s in Love with the Boy” is a song about a girl, Katie, who is head over heels in love with hometown good ole’ boy, Tommy. Sitting in the passenger seat of my cousin Mandy’s maroon Mustang LX, I excavated a few quarters from a striped tube sock that housed the money we’d scavenged for our first parentless road trip. My baby daughter will never know the peace produced by a post nightmare crawl into bed between two committed and connected biological parents.
Presley’s breakthrough came when she crossed paths with fellow singer-songwriters Ashley Monroe and Miranda Lambert. I remembered that the name of the leading lady in the The Thing Called Love is Miranda Presley. I thought to myself, “Who is this yahoo and where in the hell is Trisha Yearwood? She attended college at Eastern Kentucky University.
Maybe I became jealous when reminded of the fact that some, including her, do still have the chance to find and keep Katie and Tommy brand love. I’m here because my lullabies were Appalachian murder ballads sung by strong hill women who didn’t take no shit from no man yet somehow managed to hold on to a man with the stickiness of those high lonesome melodies that continue to glue my wayward soul to my small town heart.
However, I hadn’t quite put two and two together as to how the business of songwriting worked.
Angaleena
Presley
Angaleena Presley’s journey to the forefront of country music is one of perseverance and talent. The term “full circle moment” gets thrown around a lot in Nashville. Up to the very second that I stepped my foot over the threshold of the Bluebird Cafe, I thought that the person who sang the song also wrote the song.
Background
Angaleena Presley was born in Martin County, Kentucky, and raised in Beauty, Kentucky. It’s like there’s a residue on everything, a sludge that my boots can’t navigate through.
I’m here because I need to detox from the chemicals that are making me hate Tommy and Katie’s guts.
You have to blow off money… You have to blow off your ego. He didn’t and as the ink on the papers dried, my faith in wholesome love and partnership flatlined and perished.
As I sat on my couch watching her perform, a tornado of memories touched down around my little girl’s feet, twisting and scattering debris as she twirled. A couple of my favorite country artists, KT Oslin and Pam Tillis, made cameo appearances.
Having learned a few chords on my dad’s old guitar around the same time that The Thing Called Love was released, I became obsessed.
I have slender fingers good for playing guitar and a knowing that takes the wheel when I get close to cashing in my chips and settling for a simpler life.