Nationally touring bassist and vocalist currently performing with country superstar Kenny Chesney. She has over two decades of experience both on the road and in the studio and has worked with bands of all musical genres from rock to pop, blues, funk, bluegrass, country and Americana. She has toured with Hank Williams, Jr., Radney Foster, Bonnie Bishop, Holly Williams and Louise Mandrell. Splitting her time between her hometown of Austin, Texas, and Nashville when she’s not on the road with Kenny Chesney, she continues to tour and do session work with various artists around the country.
“I really like the idea of a prompt because for me, I didn't come upon songwriting organically.”
“Over the last few years, I started teaching myself how to write songs in Logic. I borrowed this MIDI keyboard … and … I would kind of create these drum loops on my own. And what I love to do is do a whole bunch of layering of vocals.”
“For whatever reason nobody ever wants to play bass. And now I'm like, ‘God, everybody should want to play bass, you know?’ But it seems like that's always the afterthought instrument.”
“My mom was really into arts and crafts and so I went and raided her craft drawer and got a bunch of different kinds of construction paper and I taped little, tiny squares of construction paper all up and down the bass neck and I picked out a color for each note.”
“My personality is very much, I would say I think of myself as more of a supportive role, a supportive person. I'm a helper, I'm a fixer, I guess I'm an extroverted introvert, so I might say, which I think that happens to a lot of musicians, which is surprising to some people. So, I think the bass really makes sense to me and to my personality.”
“(Duff McKagan) is a lovely person, by the way. I had a chance to meet him one time and I did, I think I cried, but he was really wonderful. And I've heard really great things about him… And he, interestingly enough, has a similar story. Like he kind of is a self-taught bass player as well.”
“You don't have to be perfect, like, this is rock and roll, and if you're going to make a mistake, make it loud, be confident, play with courage.”
“As a musician it's really hard to pick up and move your life to a different city, especially if you're trying to pursue that thing that everyone in that city is already pursuing.”
“I picked up my life in Austin and I think I even sold my house, moved out to Nashville, rented a little place and then ended up buying a place out there. But I played a gig with Hank (Williams, Jr.) at Stagecoach, at that big country music festival out in Indio, California where they do Coachella.”
“Truth or Dare ’95”
“Just Getting Started” (Rosie & The Revival)