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\n\tBut she had also spent years battling an alcohol dependency, both on and offstage. A pivotal intervention from some of McBryde\u2019s friends and team members led the Grammy winner to check in to a treatment center that year to seek help.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI had been trying [to stop drinking] for a couple of years on and off, and I think if the intervention hadn\u2019t happened, I would\u2019ve had a harder time making it stick,\u201d McBryde says today. \u201cI had a performance and I hadn\u2019t drank in about a month. A friend wound up convincing me that it would be okay [to have a drink]. I woke up in not my pajamas, not my bed, not my house. I thought I had it licked, like \u2018I don\u2019t have to work a program. I don\u2019t have to go to meetings. I can do this, I\u2019m strong enough by myself\u2019 \u2014 and that\u2019s when I found out I was not strong enough by myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI got up to get a drink of water and there was my team in [this person\u2019s] living room,\u201d McBryde continues. \u201cI couldn\u2019t find my boots. My glam team, my wardrobe team, went and bought clothes that I would have to wear during treatment. They were like, \u2018No, f\u2013k it. You don\u2019t get to go home. Hand me your phone, you\u2019re turning it in, and go.\u2019 And then for somebody like Dayna [Slaughenhoupt, McBryde\u2019s hair and makeup stylist], who\u2019s been with me for eight years, to look at me and say, \u2018You\u2019re just so sad and I\u2019m tired of watching you hurt\u2026\u2019 my response was \u2018yes,\u2019 because I\u2019d proven for the one millionth time that I couldn\u2019t do it by myself. That made it easier when I got to treatment, to go, \u2018I\u2019m going to dive in headfirst.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLike many artists, McBryde was scared that getting sober would negatively impact her creative abilities.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s the thing that keeps a lot of us out of therapy, [fearing] if I change this, there is no product,\u201d McBryde says. \u201cI was literally called \u2018The Whiskey Drinking Badass\u2019 when my first record came out and I felt like it was a compliment back then. So, you immediately go, \u2018Is my music going to suck? Can I perform as dynamically as I did before?\u2019 I thought it was going to take the rug out from under my feet creatively. What it did was just take the blindfold off.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tFour years later, not only has McBryde overcome those creative fears, but the Grammy winner is drawing on those experiences to create one of her most deeply introspective and personal albums yet with Wild<\/em>, out Friday (May 8) on Warner Records Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\tSongs including \u201cBehind Bars\u201d and the brutally honest \u201cBottle Tells Me So\u201d capture a myriad of previous attempts at sobriety, from switching alcohol brands to tracking each drink.<\/p>\n
\n\tShe recorded Wild<\/em> with her road band Deadhorse and reunited with writer-producer and Brothers Osborne member John Osborne, whom she previously worked with on her 2022 collaborative project Lindeville<\/em>. \u201cWhat I took from Lindeville<\/em> was wanting to work with John and be creative with him for hours, and having a group of songs I knew he would know what to do with. He absolutely nailed it,\u201d McBryde says.<\/p>\n\n\tMcBryde, who had been in the middle of an opening slot on Dierks Bentley\u2019s Beers on Me Tour when she sought treatment in 2022, says many in Nashville\u2019s music community, including Bentley and songwriter Travis Meadows, have been among her strongest supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u00a0\u201cThe first person who made me feel like I wasn\u2019t a complete weirdo was Dierks, because we were on his tour. He would check on me, and if we were in a social situation on the tour, he\u2019d walk by and hand me a Starburst or a Jolly Rancher and just be like, \u2018Hey, are you doing okay?\u2019 and he\u2019d say, \u2018Don\u2019t feel like you have to stay.\u2019 Even at awards shows, I\u2019d see him and he\u2019d ask if I was okay. What great big brother behavior for him to exhibit. No one in his band or crew ever made me feel weird. They started stocking NA [non-alcoholic] beers all over the place. When I got back [from treatment], Dierks offered me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and asked if I wanted to sit and talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tMeadows also became a key part of her support system. \u201cWhen I would try and go a stint of not drinking and would ultimately fail, I would tell Travis, and he would just go, \u2018I love you.\u2019 He would not judge, he wasn\u2019t like, \u2018Oh, god, chick, it was only 16 days.\u2019 He was like, \u2018We\u2019ll try again today, huh?\u2019 I think the toughest part of deciding that I had to be sober is getting used to losing friends, because you lose most of them, but you do get to trade those for people that are very supportive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tSonically, the four songs that open Wild<\/em>, including \u201cRattlesnake Preacher,\u201d \u201cArkansas Mud,\u201d \u201cCreosote\u201d and \u201cWater in the River,\u201d lean more heavily into her rock sensibilities, mirroring her high-octane live shows. \u201cRattlesnake Preacher\u201d has been a fan-favorite in her concerts for years, but McBryde hadn\u2019t found a suitable album home for it \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018That\u2019s where we\u2019ll start and everything else will show itself,\u2019\u201d McBryde says.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe themes in those songs set the stage early for the vulnerability that marks the album. \u201cRattlesnake Preacher,\u201d \u201cArkansas Mud\u201d and \u201cWater in the River\u201d touch on the emotional conflicts that arise from a childhood marked by a rigid and complex religious upbringing in rural Arkansas, and learning to find courage to forge one\u2019s own path.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThat message was ground into me over and over, until you go, \u2018Well, there\u2019s nothing I can do to be good enough, smart enough, fast enough to ever change my station in this belief system.\u2019 But to deliver it with some irreverence, I felt like it was necessary. The important thing is letting it be seen, so that other people can see it in themselves and be like, \u2018Oh, you too, huh?\u2019 It was daunting, but also really healing to be able to do it. It felt like I was doing the right thing to cover those themes in a way that would invite someone to feel a little less alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHand Me Downs\u201d looks at not only physical items often handed down in families, but inherited emotional qualities, both beneficial and detrimental. \u201cLines in the Carpet,\u201d a takedown of soul-crushing marital disconnect and domesticity, is both a warning shot and a song McBryde deeply connected with.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere are going to be men that hate that song, and good, because that\u2019s who I\u2019m singing to,\u201d she says. \u201cThe line about \u2018She\u2019s just like ceramic about to break,\u2019 when I heard that line, I was like, \u2018This song is mine.\u2019 I saw my mother\u2019s face when I heard it, such a loyal woman who didn\u2019t have the support that she needed at home, raising six kids. And the line, \u2018When you\u2019re born that pretty, you\u2019ll get to be Miss Mississippi and nothing else,\u2019 I thank the writers of this song [Lori McKenna, Lauren Hungate and Caroline Watkins] for writing it. It\u2019ll expose some people that do feel that way, but it doesn\u2019t condemn them to only feeling that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLast August, McBryde opened Redemption Bar on the fifth floor at Eric Church\u2019s Chief\u2019s venue in downtown Nashville. The NA-forward Redemption Bar offers non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, in a relaxed environment that focuses on songwriters and live music.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI always figured I\u2019d have a coffee shop or a tattoo shop,\u201d McBryde said, noting her manager, Q Prime\u2019s John Peets, brought up the idea of a unique kind of bar. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a spot on Broadway where we can escape the chaos, that\u2019s still fun. But let\u2019s say you and the girls are going downtown and they want to do all the things and you want to listen to music and have a cocktail, you can do that. Or if you\u2019re meeting a friend who\u2019s still an avid drinker, that\u2019s okay, too. Nobody\u2019s going to give you sh-t about it either way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tHer new music and the new space are testaments to her newfound outlook. \u201cI would say something like, \u2018I\u2019m unrecognizable,\u2019 but that\u2019s not true. I think a good way to describe it would be a little clearer, because sh-t still makes me mad, but it makes me mad articulately. Things still make me anxious, but I can see them clearly. I may have chosen to live a sober life earlier if I had known what access I would have to joy. I had joy then, but the kind of access I have to joy now is just miles above that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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