Pillbox Patti, the stage title of Nashville songwriter Nicolette Hayford, continues the nation … [+]
Pillbox Patti, the stage title of Nashville-based songwriter Nicolette Hayford (“One Night time Requirements,” “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega”), continues the nation style’s steep custom of fact telling on her forthcoming solo venture. Hayford bares her soul in songs that element feeling caught in a single’s hometown, abortion and drug abuse. She admits life isn’t at all times fairly and showcases the customarily curler coaster journey it may be on her Monument Data debut.
Hayford, a Florida native, grew up surrounded by music and commenced writing songs as a teen. Her father is also a songwriter, and from a younger age she noticed songwriting as a career. Hayford moved to Nashville 12 years in the past to pursue songwriting extra significantly, but it surely wasn’t till just lately that she thought of the potential of an artist profession.
“I believe I had quite a lot of worry initially round being an artist,” she tells me. “I knew I wished to be a extremely nice songwriter first, in order that’s simply what I went all the way in which in on. I discovered a lot concerning the craft. It takes hundreds of songs earlier than you perceive what you are doing.”
Hayford had her first minimize with Robert Counts’ “Backseat Driver” six years after transferring to Music Metropolis. She later noticed success with Ashley McBryde’s debut single, “A Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega,” and “One Night time Requirements,” which reached No. 11 on Billboard’s Nation Airplay chart and was nominated for Track of the Yr at each the 55th Nation Music Affiliation Awards and 2020 Academy of Nation Music Awards.
“That music was a recreation changer, clearly, in quite a lot of methods,” Hayford says. “It was the catalyst for all the pieces I’m doing now. After ‘One Night time Requirements’ got here out and the CMA and ACM nominations, I knew I used to be on the high of the curler coaster, and I may go by some means. I used to be about to get actually loopy as a songwriter or had the chance to be an artist. The cash that I made off of ‘One Night time Requirements,’ most of that went to this report.”
Hayford, alongside together with her favourite collaborators, traveled to songwriter Connie Harrington’s lake home for a number of writers’ retreats. Eight of these songs are featured on her debut venture, together with beforehand launched “Good Folks” and “Young and Stupid.”
Songs just like the hypnotic “Sweet Cigarettes,” the primary music Hayford and her co-writers penned for her solo assortment, blends the singer’s many musical influences with nation, rock, hip-hop and R&B parts. The descriptive lyrics alongside Hayford’s rhythmic singing type intrigue on “Sweet Cigarettes,” whereas “Suwannee,” out there Friday, celebrates the “not so fairly stuff” in life.
It is on the poignant “Valentine’s Day,” although, that Hayford leaves the best mark. Hayford says the music, which particulars an abortion at 15 years previous, was an vital one to write down.
“I wanted to write down that music and it took, clearly, a really very long time for me to get there, however that’s the fact I wanted to inform as a result of it allowed me to like myself,” Hayford says. “A number of these songs did. That one was a extremely large one the place I am actually glad I shared that and I am actually glad I’ve all these folks right here with me and I can really feel the love.”
Penned with McBryde, Harrington, Aaron Raitiere, Park Chisolm, Benjy Davis and Joe Clemmons, “Valentine’s Day” holds much more gravity to Hayford in the present day with the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“I did not understand on the time that it was a privilege to make that call and now I understand it was,” she says gravely.
Hayford credit collaborators like McBryde and Lainey Wilson for uplifting her to authentically be herself within the writing room and through this subsequent chapter as Pillbox Patti.
“Fortunately now we have like artists like Ashley and Lainey that actually say one thing, however there may be quite a lot of worry within the style, and I perceive why it is there,” she says. “A number of these songs wanted to exist only for me. My residing within the nation and my nation was very completely different than quite a lot of the songs that I used to be even serving to to write down. I knew I wasn’t the one individual that felt that means. There’s folks on the market which are like, ‘Mine’s not fairly as fairly,’ and I wished to write down music for us.”
It is this honesty and authenticity that Hayford desires to share with listeners on her debut venture. In return, she hopes that listeners will embrace and honor their very own journeys.
“I hope that in case you have stuff in your life that is not the prettiest, I hope which you could have a good time these issues,” she says. “This report is a celebration of issues that I have been by, so I hope that different folks will have a good time a number of the issues they went by and love themselves for it in the event that they have not but.
“I simply need folks to know that that is my expertise, and that is my fact and all the pieces in there comes from an actual place, a really actual place,” she continues. “Pillbox Patti permits me to be me.”
