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Ashley McBryde on The Inspiration Behind The Artwork For Her Album 'The Devil I Know,' Friendship with Jelly Roll & More | CMA Awards 2023
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Ashley McBryde chatted with Billboard on the red carpet of the 2023 CMA Awards.
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00:00
We are here with Ashley McBride.
00:01
How's it going so far?
00:02
Good, good.
00:03
Nerves are fully set in.
00:04
We're good.
00:05
Great, we love that.
00:06
You were just saying, so last night, everyone is complimenting your performance last night.
00:09
You were saying that, you know, there's only one other time you've been as nervous.
00:13
Yes, there's only one other song I've been as nervous to tackle, and it was a Marty Stewart
00:18
song, but last night it was "Wrong Side of Memphis."
00:21
And how were the nerves then?
00:22
You managed to conquer them.
00:24
It was okay.
00:25
Yeah, after the performance I felt a little better, and now I only have to be nervous
00:27
about performing my song.
00:28
There you go.
00:29
Much better.
00:30
Yeah.
00:31
So I want to talk about "The Devil I Know."
00:33
Yes.
00:34
Beautiful album.
00:35
I love the album art.
00:36
Tell me about the inspiration for that, and also how you shot it, because it's a lot of
00:40
you.
00:41
And what was interesting was I was trying to get a shot of the full band in that cool
00:45
space, and while we were doing that, we were also shooting several different looks of me
00:49
throughout the day.
00:50
But as we went, the photographer, Katie Koss, said, "You know what?
00:53
Let's put you in each position where there is going to be a band member.
00:57
I'd love to have each look just for us to look back on."
01:00
And then when we got done and we go to picking selects, and she's like, "Oh, here's the one
01:05
of you doing all the things."
01:06
And I was like, "I love it.
01:08
I think that's the cover."
01:10
It's really striking.
01:11
Do you feel like when you look at it, it's like, "Yep, that was me then.
01:15
That was me."
01:16
It's like versions of you that make up the you today?
01:18
Absolutely.
01:19
Especially when it comes to a title like "The Devil I Know," when there's the glam version
01:22
of you, and then there's the Blackout Betty version of you sitting there balancing a shot
01:27
glass on her face.
01:28
I remember being that.
01:29
I remember being the other me, kind of looking over there in the corner going, "I don't know
01:33
what she's up to."
01:34
It was wonderful.
01:35
It was wonderful to capture so much personality in one shot.
01:38
And now, how does it feel to not be Blackout Betty?
01:42
What has that done for you creatively?
01:44
You're just standing here in sort of a power pose, like I said, and I just feel like I
01:47
see it on your face, this happiness and this confidence.
01:51
But in your own words, how does it feel?
01:54
I was worried about stopping drinking and what it can do to your reputation and all
02:01
of that, because it was such a big part of my identity.
02:04
And I thought, "What's going to happen to songwriting?
02:06
What if I can't write as good?"
02:08
Turns out, I had it backwards.
02:11
And everything has just been, "What if my skin feels better?
02:13
I sleep better.
02:14
I sing better.
02:15
I make lots of better choices."
02:18
And I still do many, many of the things I used to do.
02:20
I still go to bars and I still drink.
02:22
The only thing different is what's in the cup.
02:24
There you go.
02:25
I think that's such a misconception, is like, "Ugh, we're never going to see them again."
02:29
It's like, "No."
02:30
Yeah, I know.
02:31
I didn't just suddenly take up only knitting or something like that.
02:33
Plus, knitting, I'm sure, is fun.
02:34
I still do all the things.
02:35
You can ask Jelly Roll, being on tour with him.
02:37
He said, "You're still the same homie.
02:38
You just don't drink the same thing everybody else drinks."
02:41
Right.
02:42
Yeah.
02:43
Jelly Roll is right next to us.
02:44
He may come by.
02:45
Do you have a favorite memory with that man?
02:47
I know you guys are such good friends.
02:49
Working together for the first time.
02:51
And we sat there and talked for like two hours before we ever wrote a single word down.
02:55
And it just felt like, you ever meet somebody and instead of getting to know them, it's
02:59
like remembering that you know them?
03:01
That kind of sounds weird.
03:02
But yeah, it was sort of like we'd always been friends and we finally got to realize
03:06
that.
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