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Julie Williams Opens Up About Artistic Vision Behind New EP ‘Tennessee Moon,’ Advocacy Within Nashville’s Music Industry
Singer-songwriter Julie Williams opens up about building a career in Nashville, releasing the new EP Tennessee Moon and more.
On singer-songwriter Julie Williams’ new five-song EP Tennessee Moon(out Oct. 17) the Florida native draws listeners into songs that evince all the facets of who she is, both as a person and as an artist, intertwining elements of folk, ‘90s country, and pop with her soothing vocal. Williams, a proudly mixed-race, queer singer-songwriter, found her musical breakthrough when she wrote “Southern Curls,” detailing her experience of growing up in the South, but with, as she sings, “the wrong kind of Southern curls.” The sharply-written, exquisitely-sung track also delves into forging her own path in her early days in Nashville, with the lines, “Twenty-three in Music City with dreams and high heeled boots/ Singin’ for a crowd of blue eyes/ Will they want me too?” She looks back on the last moments of a relationship in “Tennessee Moon,” while “Reckless Road” meshes banjo, pedal steel and acoustic guitar, evoking the timeless feel of ‘90s country songs.
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