About this episode

Tenille Townes discusses her journey as a songwriter and artist, highlighting her new self-produced album and her vision for an independent future.

Episode 362: Songwriter and artist Tenille Townes is a certified star in Canada where she's won heaps of awards and seen her moving songs top the country charts. In over a dozen years in Nashville, she's been an impressive songwriter with one foot in major label country and another in Americana. Now with a lovely self-produced acoustic album called The Acrobat, Townes points to an independent future with a unique vision and a renewed sense of self.

People in this episode

Guest: Tenille Townes

Topics covered

• songwriting
• country music
• Americana
• independent music
• artist journey

Keywords

• Tenille Townes
• country charts
• songwriter
• The Acrobat
• independent music

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nashville

Books & works: The Acrobat

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