Ashley McBryde Announces New EP "Never Will: Live From A Distance"

ASHLEY McBRYDE PREMIERES LIVE VERSION OF CURRENT SINGLE “MARTHA DIVINE” From Her Grammy Nominated Album

Four-time GRAMMY nominee Ashley McBryde premieres her new video for a special live performance of current single “Martha Divine” from her upcoming live EP Never Will: Live From A Distance. “Martha Divine – Live” is available everywhere now, with the EP arriving Friday, May 28.

An Arkansas-Native, Ashley McBryde Receives nods for Female Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Critically Acclaimed Never Will and Song of the Year for Lead Single and Gold-Certified “One Night Standards.” The record was released via Warner Music Nashville to critical acclaim, earning a spot as one of the best albums of the year as the only Country artist landing in the top 20 of Rolling Stone’s all-genre “Best Albums of 2020” dubbing Never Will as “this year’s most adventurous mainstream country album.”

“We released Never Will on April 3 last year, so we went straight from rehearsals for a tour to not seeing each other in person for months,” reflects McBryde. “Getting together to rehearse and record these live versions safely was our way of giving the fans a taste of what they would have seen had the world not changed so much. Man did it feel good to strap on the guitar and see my guys and just play, but we cannot wait to do it again with our incredible fans in person soon.”

“I am honored to have been nominated alongside so many peers I respect and admire, and I can’t thank the Academy of Country Music enough for recognizing the incredible work not only my band, Jay Joyce and myself put into this record, but the songwriters and my team,” shares McBryde. “I look forward to the day we can celebrate this album together, along with our fans.”

Photo Credit: Daniel Meigs

Lead single “One Night Standards” emerged as McBryde’s first Top 10 hit while going RIAA-Certified Gold in both the United States and Canada after landing on NPR’s “25 Best Songs of 2019,” while The New York Times named the track in the top three “Best Songs of 2020,” marking the only country song in the top 15, with Jon Pareles sharing, “Ashley McBryde provides pithy, matter-of-fact details of a random hookup — ‘I don’t really care if you’re here when I wake up’ — and while the music swells, her heart stays cold.”

“McBryde honed her skill in the rock ’n’ roll bars of Memphis and is as much a rocker as Stapleton and Isbell. But she’s also a master of such traditional country music tropes as the pun song (“The First Thing I Reach For” and No. 3 Best Single “One Night Standards”) and the barroom sing-along catch phrase (“Never Will” and “Shut Up Sheila”),” praised Geoffrey Himes of Nashville Scene.

Never Will: Live From A Distance Track List:

First Thing I Reach For (Ashley McBryde, Randall Clay, Mick Holland)
Shut Up Sheila (Nicolette Hayford, Charles Chisholm)
Velvet Red (Ashley McBryde, Patrick Savage, Daniel Smalley)
Voodoo Doll (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)
Martha Divine (Ashley McBryde, Jeremy Spillman)
Sparrow (Ashley McBryde, Nicolette Hayford, Brandy Clark, Connie Harrington, Jake Mitchell, Aaron Raitiere)