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Featured Artist of the Day: Edan Archer

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Edan Archer

 

Indie Music Women’s Featured Artist of the Day is…

Edan Archer (@edanarcher)

Edan Archer’s full-length album ‘Journey Proud’ released in August 2019, has received strong praise from Country and Americana curators, including American Songwriter, Rolling Stone, Parade Magazine, Wide Open Country, The Boot, and more. The ten-song follow up to 2016’s EP ‘Cruel Mother’, touches on timeless themes of love, loneliness, death, and drinking and promises to be a fresh staple for this evolving genre. Edan is a Gainesville, Florida native and Nashville lurker.

Edan’s background in Appalachian folk and rock merge into a style characterized by fingerpicking, electric dulcimer, rock and roll energy and country hooks. Edan has performed at Stagecoach, SXSW, Americanafest, Canadian Music Week, Carnaval On The Mile, SouthWest Air Live at 35, Tom Petty Birthday Bash and has shared the stage with Nikki Lane, Margo Price, Sam Morrow, Jaime Wyatt, and others. Edan was recently featured in Rolling Stone, is showcasing at SXSW and playing Gasparilla festival.

Edan shared with me what it means to her personally to be an indie music woman artist:

“The music industry still has some ground to cover regarding investing and supporting women artists, especially in the alt-country/Americana genre, but there are some amazing independent labels doing great things for artists like me. I’m independent as I’m still growing, evolving, and breaking onto the scene the best I can. I’ve learned to do things on a shoestring budget, to trust my own judgment regarding the creative process, and to not wait for someone to do anything for me. The upside is I can create whatever music and videos appeal to me and that I feel inspired to create, without having to answer to a team. The best part is surprising myself by doing things I didn’t think I could do, and that others didn’t think I could do either. I feel that independent women artists are pushing the genre forward until the rest of the industry can catch on.”

You can hear Edan’s single, “Garden Rose” on the Indie Music Women’s Spotify playlist.

The Ashley Sisters Get Sweet on Country Radio as Latest Single Reaches Top 80

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With rebellious hearts and empowered attitudes, Lauren and Marlo Ashley have officially hit the charts again with their latest release to country radio.  The Ashley Sisters’ sophomore single Sweet On You captures a sound reminiscent of traditional country with a modern twist that highlights the innocence of classroom crushes and the feelings of first love.

Sweet On You, written by Lauren and Marlo, is available on iTunes, Spotify, and all digital retailers now. 

“It wasn’t until we started performing this song at our shows that we knew it was something special,” says Lauren.  “It’s a very relatable topic of young love, friendship and being unsure of what to do,” adds Marlo.  “It’s the female perspective of attempting to escape the ‘friend-zone,’ which is an angle you don’t normally hear.” 

Sweet On You, which has reached over 100k streams, has been well received by country radio across the nation and into Canada as it continues to climb up the MusicRow Country Breakout Chart.  Building on the success, the girls have hit the road for a radio tour traveling to major US markets where they have been winning over numerous country fans.

“They’re both outlaws,” says Captain Jack of Renegade Radio Nashville.  “After their visit, I thought ‘I have to get on that bandwagon’ because I think what they are doing is exactly where country music is moving.  They are leading the way.”

Visit The Ashley Sisters at their website and follow along with them on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. 

About The Ashley Sisters: Sisters and best friends on stage and off, Lauren and Marlo Ashley have always shared an inseparable bond.  From an early age, the girls showed interest in entertainment whether they were dancing in competitions, performing in makeshift bands or attending music camp.  Having early musical inspiration from their maternal grandparents — she a singer and he a musician — the girls picked up instruments and began shaping their musical identities.  At the age of 10 Marlo, an avid poetry fan took an original poem to her sister and the two put music to the words, thus writing their first song together.  They would continue to write together as their influences grew from the likes of Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline to Shania Twain and Miranda Lambert. Their debut release to country radio, Reckless, peaked at no. 75 on the MusicRow charts and introduced listeners to their unique blend of outlaw country, traditional country, and country-pop — a new genre the sisters define as ‘Outlaw Country-Pop.’  By writing all of their own music and lyrics their writing takes on a distinctive fun-loving, positive and organic energy that leaves listeners feeling joy no matter the subject.  With a rapidly growing fan base and a plethora of unreleased music, The Ashley Sisters continue to set their sights high. 

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For more information or to request an interview with The Ashley Sisters, contact Erin Coad of Brickshore Media at Erin@BrickshoreMedia.com, 615-840-9187.

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