GRAMMY award winner Ashley McBryde performed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” this morning, August 7, bringing her No Depression-dubbed “soaring anthem of self-determination” and current single “The Devil I Know” to audiences nationwide. Watch her interview and performance HERE.
Chatting about the cover art for her album The Devil I Know, which features five representations of the different facets of McBryde’s personality, she shared with Michael Strahan, “The whole process of making this record was that we all have different aspects of ourselves, some that we love to embrace, some that we do not love to embrace. So this whole process has been about not just coming to terms with it, but learning how to fall in love with all those aspects.”
The Arkansas native also joined “GMA3: What You Need To Know” with album closer “6th of October,” a song written by McBryde with Blue Foley and CJ Field after the passing of one of her longtime collaborators, Randall Clay, with Field bringing in a song he’d started with Clay. The track has since become a celebration of self-compassion among her fans, with Billboard sharing “acceptance and self-assuredness flows particularly on album closer ‘6th of October,’” while Arkansas Democrat-Gazette calls it “bittersweet, John Prine-ish.” Watch her interview and performance HERE.
Named one of the best country albums of the year by Rolling Stone, Billboard, Slate, Paste, Holler and more, the cover art for The Devil I Know represents different parts of McBryde’s personality: Joan of Arkansas, the Golden Gal, Girl in Red, Blackout Betty and Ashley Damn McBryde. To celebrate each one, McBryde compiled playlists of her songs from each persona, with the full collection titled Meet the Family.
McBryde recently wrapped The Devil I Know Tour Presented by Ariat and will perform headlining dates across the U.S. through the summer before joining Cody Johnson on The Leather Tour this fall. For additional dates and tickets, visit AshleyMcBryde.com.
Ashley McBryde Tour Dates
Aug. 8 Erie County Fair // Hamburg, NY
Aug. 11 Illinois State Fair // Springfield, IL
Aug. 16 Cape Cod Melody Tent // Hyannis, MA
Aug. 18 South Shore Music Circus // Cohasset, MA
Aug. 23 North Texas Fair and Rodeo // Denton, TX
Aug. 24 Riverwind Casino // Norman, OK
Aug. 30 Du Quoin State Fair // Du Quoin, IL
Aug. 31 Sugar Bowl Country Kickoff // New Orleans, LA
Sept. 1 William A. Floyd Amphitheater // Anderson, SC
Sept. 7 Grand Ole Opry // Nashville, TN
Sept. 13 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2024 // Bristol, TN
Sept. 14 Renfro Valley Entertainment Center // Mt. Vernon, KY
Sept. 17 Grand Ole Opry // Nashville, TN
Sept. 20 PNC Music Pavilion // Charlotte, NC*
Sept. 21 Credit One Stadium // Charleston, SC*
Oct. 3 Pueblo Memorial Hall // Pueblo, CO
Oct. 4 Union Colony Civic Center // Greeley, CO
Oct. 12 Grand Ole Opry // Nashville, TN
Oct. 18 Visalia Fox Theatre // Visalia, CA
Oct. 20 GoldenSky Festival 2024 // Sacramento, CA
Oct. 25 The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion // The Woodlands, TX*
Nov. 8 Princess Theatre // Decatur, AL
Nov. 15 Wells Fargo Center // Philadelphia, PA*
Nov. 16 Bryce Jordan Center // University Park, PA*
Dec. 6 WCOL Winter Wonder Jam // Columbus, OH
Dec. 13 MGM Grand Garden Arena // Las Vegas, NV*
*Cody Johnson’s The Leather Tour
Photo Credit: Katie Kauss
About Ashley McBryde
GRAMMY, CMA and ACM award winner Ashley McBryde cut her teeth playing country songs in biker bars – and it shows. The Grand Ole Opry member’s 2018 major label debut Girl Going Nowhere (Warner Music Nashville) charmed The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post and more, all en route to landing a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. McBryde closed out 2019 with ACM New Female Artist, CMT Breakout Artist, a New Artist of the Year win at the 53rd Annual CMA Awards and two nominations for the 2020 GRAMMYs for Best Country Song and Best Country Solo Performance for “Girl Goin’ Nowhere.” Follow-up Never Will was tagged by Rolling Stone as one of the most anticipated of the year alongside NPR, who also ranked her Top 10 RIAA Platinum-Certified single “One Night Standards” as one of the best songs of 2019. The album earned McBryde a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, making Never Will the only album nominated for Country Album of the Year by the ACMs, CMAs and the Recording Academy in the same award season. Her GRAMMY-winning duet with Carly Pearce, “Never Wanted To Be That Girl,” went all the way to No. 1 and earned McBryde and Pearce the ACM and CMA award for Musical Event of the Year. McBryde was also honored with the 2022 CMA International Artist Achievement Award for the most significant creative growth, development and promotion of the country music industry outside of the United States. Her collaborative project Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville earned McBryde her third consecutive GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, making her a six-time nominee. Her latest album The Devil I Know was released to critical acclaim, earning a title as one of the best country albums of the year from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Slate, PASTE, Holler and more. The Arkansas native will headline shows across the U.S. this summer before joining Cody Johnson’s The Leather Tour this fall. For more information, visit Ashley McBryde.com or follow her on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok and YouTube.
