Link below to a webpage with an article with audio and full transcript of an NPR interview with country singer Ashton Shepherd who mentions watching TAGS with her family. http://www.npr.org/2011/07/29/138827835/ashton-shepherd-country-music-with-roots
The TAGS section of the interview is nice, real nice. SHEPHERD: You know, it really is. And, you know, right now me and my husband are still living on six acres in a single-wide trailer. But I'll get depressed out on the road simply because I'm not being the mama that's cooking supper every night or that's fixing my husband's plate and my baby's plate. And you miss those things and I miss them because it makes me feel good to grow things in a garden and put things up in jars and, you know, open up a can of tomatoes that I put up and cook, you know, tomato gravy and biscuits for my son and my husband in the morning. And I think it's a big part of who I am as an artist. And I think it's what you have to do, what I feel like I have to do to stay able to sing country music that I'm really living instead of just singing about it. NORRIS: In your estimation, has country music become a little bit too citified? SHEPHERD: Oh, I mean, it absolutely has. I mean, and I don't say that in a negative form but it's just evolved over time, just like cell phones and computers and everything else. It's just such a fast pace. And me and my husband have those discussions, you know, we'll sit up at night, you know, and just talk to one another about, you know, even just how your television gets in the way of just something simple, like, you know, if you really...me and him actually enjoy watching "The Andy Griffith Show." We'll sit down, just me and him, and we'll make our little boy watch it. My daddy sits down and watches it every evening too. And... NORRIS: OK. I was wondering about that 'cause you're 24. You're too young to remember Andy Griffith. SHEPHERD: Well, that kind of goes back to, you know, my daddy and mom are 60 years old and I guess it's about generations and tradition and carrying things on it. And then my little boy getting to see, you know, even the music we play him is older music. He knows new country music but he also listens to Conway and some Loretta songs and he listens to Patsy Cline. And he knows who those people are and he's five years old. So, we try to make sure it's present, you know, keep it alive because it's just really important to me. Jeff _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
