ASHLEY McBRYDE SEARCHES FOR CONNECTION
AMONG LOST LEGENDS AND EMPTY HORIZONS WITH
“AIN’T ENOUGH COWBOY SONGS” ON DECEMBER 6
Five-Time Female Vocalist of the Year Nominee and Two-Time CMA Award Winner
Performs at the CMA Awards Wednesday, November 20
Joins Cody Johnson for Leather Deluxe Tour in 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Hailed as “country’s most down-to-earth songwriter” by The New York Times, CMA Female Vocalist of the Year nominee Ashley McBryde offers poetic nostalgia with “Ain’t Enough Cowboy Songs,,” set for release Friday, December 6 via Warner Music Nashville. Pre-save/pre-add HERE.
Written by McBryde with Chris Harris and Patrick Savage, “Ain’t Enough Cowboy Songs” emerged from a shared feeling of loss and a desire to reconnect with timeless principles, longing for meaning and clarity in a changing world.
“In the last several years, we’ve all been feeling like something is missing. I noticed it in myself and then noticed it in most people I came in contact with. And we don’t always know how to articulate it,” McBryde admits. “For us, this song helped us do that. We are all starving to reconnect with the things that made us who we are. Sometimes that comes as our sense of justice and duty, maybe for some of us it’s work ethic, for some of us it’s a sense of community.
“When we got together to write, the three of us realized the cowboys we looked up to growing up made us want to be the way that we are – the music associated with them and the lives they lead,” she explains. “Those things fully embodied what I am starving for. There’s no substitute for hard work, resilience, kindness, standing up for and with folks in their weaker moments. There’s no substitute for knowing when to take it on the chin and when to give it. And no matter what else we may try to fill that hole with…there ain’t enough of it to ever resemble the real thing.”
“Ain’t Enough Cowboy Songs” Lyrics:
The horse I rode in on got put out to pasture
And someday they’ll put me there too
They traded our heroes for overpaid actors
Who can’t even fill up their boots
I’d love to ride into the sunset, but there’s no wild out west
No prairie to roam or a high enough lonesome to get far enough gone
There ain’t enough cowboy songs
There’s a few of us left tryin’ to circle the wagons,
But we’re barely holdin’ our ground
Cause we ain’t got pistols or shiny tin badges,
And we ain’t the law in this town
And I’d love to ride into the sunset, but there’s no wild out west,
No prairie to roam or a high enough lonesome to get far enough gone
There ain’t enough cowboy songs
Oh I’d love to ride into the sunset, but there’s no wild out west,
No prairie to roam or a high enough lonesome to get far enough gone
There ain’t enough cowboy songs, there ain’t enough cowboy songs
Fans have been clamoring for the full version as McBryde has been teasing the release on social media, including a portion of the song’s live debut in Greeley, Colorado earlier this month, sparking comments such as, “Don’t be shy, drop the whole song,” “Stealing my heart one chord at a time,” and “I think it’s my new favorite song and I am chomping at the bit for it to get released!”
McBryde will perform at the 58th Annual CMA Awards Wednesday, Nov. 20 ahead of a performance at the Grand Ole Opry on Dec. 3. She will perform with Cody Johnson in Las Vegas on Dec. 13 before joining him for his Leather Deluxe Tour in 2025 among festival dates at Stagecoach, Country Thunder Arizona and Country Thunder Florida.
Ashley McBryde Tour Dates
Dec. 3 Grand Ole Opry House // Nashville, TN
Dec. 5 Blue Gate Performing Arts Center // Shipshewana, IN
Dec. 6 WCOL Winter Wonder Jam // Columbus, OH
Jan. 16 State Theatre of Ithaca // Ithaca, NY
Jan. 23 Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts // Bloomington, IL
Jan. 30 Long Center for the Performing Arts // Lafayette, IN
Feb. 20 Capitol Theatre // Wheeling, WV
April 12 Country Thunder Arizona // Florence, AZ
April 26 Stagecoach Festival // Indio, CA
May 4 Country Thunder Florida // Kissimmee, FL
Aug. 7 WE Fest // Detroit Lakes, MN
Ashley McBryde Tour Dates with Cody Johnson
Dec. 13 MGM Grand Garden Arena // Las Vegas, NV
Jan. 17 Prudential Center // Newark, NJ
Jan. 18 John Paul Jones Arena // Charlottesville, VA
Jan. 24 Enterprise Center // St. Louis, MO
Jan. 25 Vibrant Arena at the Mark // Moline, IL
Jan. 31 Fiserv Forum // Milwaukee, WI
Feb. 1 Ford Center // Evansville, IN
Feb. 15 Bridgestone Arena // Nashville, TN
Feb. 21 Keybank Center // Buffalo, NY
Feb. 22 Heritage Bank Center // Cincinnati, OH
May 2 PNC Music Pavilion // Charlotte, NC
May 3 Credit One Stadium // Charleston, SC
Photo Credit: Katie Kauss
About Ashley McBryde
GRAMMY, CMA and ACM award winner Ashley McBryde cut her teeth playing country songs in biker bars – and it shows. The Grand Ole Opry member’s 2018 major label debut Girl Going Nowhere (Warner Music Nashville) charmed The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post and more, all en route to landing a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. McBryde closed out 2019 with ACM New Female Artist, CMT Breakout Artist, a New Artist of the Year win at the 53rd Annual CMA Awards and two nominations for the 2020 GRAMMYs for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere.” Follow-up Never Will was tagged by Rolling Stone as one of the most anticipated of the year alongside NPR, who also ranked her Top 10 RIAA Platinum-Certified single “One Night Standards” as one of the best songs of 2019. The album earned McBryde a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, making Never Will the only album nominated for Country Album of the Year by the ACMs, CMAs and the Recording Academy in the same award season. Her GRAMMY-winning duet with Carly Pearce, “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” went all the way to No. 1 and earned McBryde and Pearce the ACM and CMA award for Musical Event of the Year. McBryde was honored with the 2022 CMA International Artist Achievement Award for the most significant creative growth, development and promotion of the country music industry outside of the United States. Her collaborative project Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville earned McBryde her third consecutive GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, making her a six-time nominee. Her latest album The Devil I Know was released to critical acclaim, earning a title as one of the best country albums of the year from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Slate, PASTE, Holler and more, with McBryde currently nominated for CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, marking her fifth nod in the category. Hailed as “country’s most down-to-earth songwriter” by The New York Times, McBryde offers poetic nostalgia with “Ain’t Enough Cowboy Songs,” set for release Friday, December 6 via Warner Music Nashville. The Arkansas native joins Cody Johnson’s Leather Deluxe Tour through spring 2025 among festival performances at Country Thunder Arizona, Stagecoach and WE Fest.
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