Whiskey, addiction, breakups Kalie Shorr is the new queen of country
about 5 years in The guardian
With her acid wit and poignant lyrics, the US songwriter is being hailed as a successor to Nashville-era Taylor Swift
Had everything gone to plan, Kalie Shorr would have just wrapped her first UK tour. Instead, the 25-year-old country songwriter is stuck in Nashville, diagnosed with coronavirus. She has been writing songs with her two housemates but, otherwise, lockdown has been tough. “I am very extroverted and thrive on chaos,” she says with a guilty laugh.
Shorr is no stranger to it. Her 2019 debut album, Open Book, documents the worst year of her life: her older sister’s fatal heroin overdose; a cheating boyfriend; an eating disorder relapse. “I’ve never been worse, thanks for asking,” Shorr sings on the album’s opening line. “Is it making you nervous, all this honesty?” Her poignant bleakness and acid wit did spook the famously conservative country industry. So she self-released the album, a gloves-off evolution of Taylor Swift’s Nashville years. Continue reading...
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