Humble and kind song writer full#

Humble and kind song writer full#

The Bird & the Rifle hinges on relationships with significant others, with community and with the self, the songs full of rich detail that paint emotional pictures, often without specifying the feelings in question. She likewise had a hand in Hunter Hayes’ plea for passion, “I Want Crazy,” and in RaeLynn’s gender celebration “God Made Girls.” She and her co-writers expressed jealousy with a literate sensibility in Little Big Town’s “Girl Crush” and captured the pain of a dying flame in another LBT single, “Your Side of the Bed,” that nabbed a Grammy nomination.

McKenna is, in fact, a master at exploring relationships. ?“I guess somebody could look at that art and think, ‘Is she making a statement about guns?’ When I think of that rifle, I think of that guy, and I don’t think of anything else but the metaphor that we attached to it and where it came from, which was the mom and the daughter from the punchline of joke. “I guess I’ve sort of blocked out the fact that I’m putting out this record with a big picture of a gun on it,” says McKenna. Its title track employs a firearm as symbolism in a challenged relationship - the man’s powerful, dangerous essence shuts down the woman’s freedom of self-expression - and it hints at the complexities of a hot-button issue. The Bird & the Rifle, a 10-song album that explores gritty life issues with an uncanny honesty, arrives at retail on July 29, the day after the Democratic National Convention comes to a close. McKenna has accidentally set herself up for a similar juxtaposition.

“It was such a strange day for me because you wanted to celebrate, but it was such a heavy day for everybody.”Ĭountry Music Turns to God In Turbulent Social Period “We found out that ‘Humble and Kind’ was going to be No. 1 on the Sunday that we woke up to Orlando,” says songwriter Lori McKenna. Pulse Recording, Home to Pop Hitmaker Bonnie McKee, Partners with Nashville's Creative Nation