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Ashley McBryde: The Language She Wants To Master in 2024

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Ashley McBryde recently posted to Instagram a recap of her 2023, like many country artists have been doing in the last few days, but then she posted something that she wants to know more about in 2024. Ashley posted a video to Instagram explaining that she uses sign language to communicate with her staff while on stage and with her fans in the crowd.

In the video clip, the person filming the video asks McBryde why she loves using sign language so much.

Ashley responded, speaking and using sign language as she said in a clip filming in a kitchen backstage before a show. She said, “Well, there was a time when I couldn’t speak because I had surgery on my voice, so I learned enough to get things I needed, like a beer and a shot and food, things like that. Then, when we were on tour this summer (2023), we were in some really hot situations where the pits were really hot, and people were passing out, and I didn’t have a way to tell my team side-stage that there was an emergency.”

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She continued, “I needed to stop the show, and it takes so many minutes to get it done, but if I can let them know there’s an emergency (she starts to sign) out here. We need an ambulance; we need a doctor or a nurse here. Or to say it’s big, hot, and water… they need water, or I’m thirsty.”

McBryde continued to sign, saying, “I went to the back of the stage where normally I wouldn’t (recently), and I turned around and said, ‘Sorry, I’m thirsty.’ I needed water.” And then it would occur to me because I would sign a few things like ‘You’re beautiful’ or ‘Give applause to our audience’ and then people started signing back to me. I didn’t know what they were saying, so now I feel rude. I don’t like that. Now, I need to learn more ASL (American Sign Language).

Six Ashley McBryde Songs Everyone Should Know

  • "Brenda Get Your Bra On" (2022)

    This song was not released as a radio single, but it’s a banger just the same. The song was part of Ashley’s Grammy-nominated album Lindeville and features her good friends Pillbox Patti and Caylee Hammack. The video for the song reminds us of the Chicks’ late 1990s murder classic “Goodbye Earl.” It’s a fan-favorite song, and the video, with four million views, is a true classic in the making.

    Warning: The video content is adult-oriented – See the video here.

  • "A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega" (2017

    This is Ashley’s debut single to country radio; while the song also hit the top 30 on the Billboard country charts, it was named one of the 54 Best Songs of 2017 by The New York Times, and one of the Top 25 Best Country Songs of 2017 by Rolling Stone. The music video, filmed at a truck stop and featuring working people, has 13 million views.

  • "Girl Goin' Nowhere" (2019)

    McBryde was inspired to write the song based on her experience with her high school algebra teacher. She had told the educator that she planned on becoming a singer-songwriter. The teacher replied by saying that her dream was “stupid” and that she needed a backup plan. The song is the title track to her debut debut studio album.

  • "One Night Standards" (2019)

    This song was nominated at the 55th CMA Awards for Single of the Year and Song of the Year. Filmed at the Drake Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, this song’s music video depicts Ashley working as a receptionist checking in a couple when she recognizes the man waiting outside as a friend’s father. She alerts her friend, which leads to her coming down to the hotel and confronting him and the mistress with a shovel and ends with McBryde and her friend stuffing the woman into the trunk of a car before driving away.

  • "Light On in the Kitchen" (2023)

    This is Ashley’s first single release from her The Devil I Know album. She told me of the song’s video, “I’m so excited that ‘Light On In The Kitchen’ got nominated for (CMA) Video of the Year because that video was taken in one continuous shot. Which means the production team and everybody was there in the early, early early hours of the day, building all the sets. It’s in one big room, and then what you see is this really smooth transition from a bedroom to a kitchen scene to where the band is.”

  • "Never Wanted to Be That Girl" (2021) - Carly Pearce with Ashley McBryde

    This is the song that made McBryde and her friend Carly Pearce Grammy winners. They won Best Country Duo/Group for this song at the 2023 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The song featured on Pearce’s album 29:Written In Stone also topped the country songs chart on Billboard. It was the first number-one song for Ashley, and the two performed it together at the CMA Awards.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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