Ashley McBryde At The 2023 CMAs
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00:00Ashley McBride is on live at the CMAs. I'm Jeff Kirkshan. Ashley, how are you?
00:04I'm good. I always open up with this. My first date with my now wife. We just welcomed our first baby.
00:09Congratulations. I took my wife to see you perform opening up for George Strait on our very first date.
00:15Oh my gosh, in Vegas. In Vegas. Oh my gosh. And we actually had a chance to meet you.
00:19So the very first photo I ever took with my wife was me, you, and my wife Emily.
00:24Wow. How crazy is that? So now for the rest of time when you tell this story, I'm in it.
00:28Yeah. I should have named my daughter Ashley McBride Kirkshan.
00:31No, it's so hard to say it when you're like reading liners. It's hard to say Ashley McBride really close together a bunch of times.
00:37You end up just going, schwee me brie. That's what you just end up doing.
00:40Oh my gosh. Well, I'm excited. Your album of the year.
00:43Yes. This is so exciting.
00:45See, can I ask because I've never made an album, if you can't tell, but I've listened to a lot of them.
00:49Yeah. I feel like that's one of the nods that is the biggest because that's the whole production of work.
00:54It is. Not the non-single of the year, of course, entertainer of the year.
00:57No, these are all wonderful recognitions to get. But I feel like the album.
01:00This means everything about it. This means every single songwriter and every word you put on it and every musician you chose and the engineer that you chose and the producer that you worked with.
01:12This means all of that is a win. All of that gets celebrated.
01:16So when you found out you were getting that nod, second straight year, right?
01:19Yeah.
01:20So is there a group text? Who alerted it? Did you text your producer and be like, oh my gosh, did you find out first or did somebody else find out first?
01:27It was.
01:28And normally I'm like, oh, is that today when nominations come out? And because I was like, sorry, I was meditating or something like that.
01:33Right, right, right.
01:34No, this time it was my day-to-day manager.
01:37Yeah.
01:38Because normally when they're like, congratulations, I'm like, on what? And they're like, it's nomination day.
01:41This time it came from my manager, my day-to-day manager, and they sent me the first two nominations in Left Out album.
01:47They're like, congratulations, female vocalist. I was like, oh my gosh, you guys. And they're like, video of the year.
01:52And I was like, oh man, Light Out in the Kitchen was so great. And they said, album of the year, Lindyville.
01:56And I was like, that sneaky little rascal got nominated.
02:01That is incredible.
02:02Yeah.
02:03Let's talk about the Opry, Garth Brooks.
02:05Yes.
02:06How cool is that?
02:07The coolest.
02:08I mean, because, you know, you think about, there's this list of legendary artists who have been a part of that institution.
02:11Yeah.
02:12Garth Brooks offers you that invitation.
02:13Yes.
02:14That's pretty sweet.
02:15On live television.
02:16So you really had no idea?
02:17No, and I certainly didn't know my mother was there.
02:19How cute was that?
02:20So my inner monologue is just going nuts.
02:22Yeah.
02:23But it took me a second to realize where he was when he said, I'm seated here in the circle.
02:28And then I was like, this is how this is going down.
02:31And then to have Gayle King say, who is that behind you?
02:34And I'm like, I don't know.
02:35And I was like, that's my mom.
02:37It was wonderful.
02:38That's one of the biggest days of my life.
02:40And I called my brother right after that.
02:42And we got outside the studio and I just called him.
02:44He's like, hello, loser.
02:46And I was like, hey, do you have any idea who you're talking to?
02:48He's like, my sister.
02:49And I was like, the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry.
02:51It was wonderful.
02:52Aw.
02:53Hey, loser.
02:54Is that how he always picks up?
02:55Always.
02:56Stay true.
02:57Hey, loser.
02:58Who's the last fellow country singer you texted?
03:01Let me think real quick.
03:03It was Lainey.
03:05It was Lainey Wilson.
03:06Lainey Wilson.
03:07Yep.
03:08Oh, you two are besties.
03:09I know.
03:10I know.
03:11No one's shocked.
03:12You're the best.
03:13You're the best.
03:14I love you.
03:15I love you.
03:18I love you.
03:19I hope you all can.
03:20I love you.
03:22I'm excited.
03:23I love you.
03:24I love you.