Grammy-winning country star to host Saturday afternoons with Ashley McBryde’s Radioland ahead of her C2C headline appearance
Grammy-winning country star Ashley McBryde is joining Absolute Radio Country with a brand-new weekly show, Ashley McBryde’s Radioland, launching Saturday 24th October.
The three-hour show will air every Saturday from 4pm to 7pm, with Ashley sharing some of her favourite country songs, stories from her career and the artists and music that have influenced her.
The launch comes ahead of Ashley’s headline appearance at next year’s C2C: Country to Country festival in the UK. Absolute Radio Country will be bringing listeners coverage, interviews and highlights from across the C2C weekend in Manchester.
Recorded from Nashville, Ashley McBryde’s Radioland will feature songs Ashley loves, tracks from her own catalogue and stories from her life as a songwriter and performer. The show will give listeners a warm, unfiltered insight into the music and people behind some of country’s biggest songs.
Ashley McBryde said:
“I’ve always been fascinated by the stories behind the songs and the people who write ’em. Some of my favorite songs have been with me my whole life, and others I’ve picked up along the way. I’m looking forward to sharing those with y’all, talking about the artists who’ve shaped the way I make music, and telling a few stories of my own. Can’t wait to spend Saturdays with y’all on Radioland!”
Ricky Marshall, Head of Content for Absolute Radio Country said:
“Ashley McBryde is one of country music’s most compelling and exciting voices, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to the station. With Ashley set to headline C2C in the UK next year, and Absolute Radio Country bringing listeners the best of C2C Manchester, this is the perfect moment to bring Radioland to our listeners.”
Ashley McBryde’s Radioland launches on Absolute Radio Country on Saturday 24th October and will air weekly from 4pm to 7pm. Listeners can tune in via DAB, smart speaker, online and the Absolute Radio app.
ABOUT ABSOLUTE RADIO COUNTRY
Absolute Radio Country is the UK’s biggest Country music station, playing iconic hits from legends including Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash, alongside new artists like Ella Langley and Riley Green. With Baylen Leonard, Lou Nash, Jennie Longdon and Kelly Sutton from Nashville celebrating the vibrant culture of Country music. Absolute Radio Country is part of the wider Absolute Radio Network, listen on DAB+, via Rayo, online or ask your smart speaker to play Absolute Radio Country.
ABOUT ASHLEY MCBRYDE
“One of Nashville’s most reliable and sophisticated songwriters” (Los Angeles Times), GRAMMY, ACM, and CMA award-winning Grand Ole Opry member Ashley McBryde deals in songs that deliver hard truths with a soulful ferocity. On her new album, Wild, McBryde threads a captivating narrative over 11 tracks, culminating in the moment just before she quit drinking. The Arkansas-bred artist uncovers the deepest layers of her lived experience through it all: the grit and grind of growing up in the Ozarks, the enduring shadow of her fundamentalist upbringing, the fallout of drinking too much, and hard-won reckoning that led her to sobriety. When matched with her thrilling collision of timeless country and blistering rock & roll, the result is equal parts daring autobiography and courageous reclamation of her most untamed nature.
Earning elite accolades across her acclaimed catalog, like 2020’s Never Will, one of the only LPs ever to garner Country Album of the Year nominations from the ACM, CMA, and GRAMMYs all in the same awards season, McBryde is “an artist with many things to say and a big enough voice to slice through the noise” (Rolling Stone). The CMA International Artist Achievement award winner and recipient of an honorary doctorate in music from Arkansas State University is “the genre’s smartest lyricist” (SPIN) and “one of Nashville’s brightest innovators” (NPR). Dr. McBryde innovated again last August, creating a haven on Nashville’s Lower Broadway with her non-alcoholic forward concept bar, Redemption Bar, at home on the fifth floor of Eric Church’s Chief’s.
As she moves into her next chapter with an unprecedented clarity, McBryde hopes that listeners might reconnect with their own boldest essence. “When people hear this record, I hope it wakes up the part of them that I’m singing about in Wild—the part that still believes in those unrealized dreams and untaken risks,” says McBryde. “I believe that wild little kid is still alive inside of all of us, and that’s the version of everyone that I want to sing to.