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The Country Show with Bob Harris

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The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names

The very best in Country music, celebrating the new alongside the defining legendary names.

The Country Show with Bob Harris: Tenille Townes is in session

Tenille Townes is in session

BBC Radio 2 - The Country Show with Bob Harris, Tenille Townes is in session

Tenille Townes is in session, live from Nashville.

Country music newcomer Tenille Townes joins Bob in Nashville to play songs from her debut release.

Tenille Townes - one of country music's brightest new stars - is in session from our Nashville studios.

She'll be telling Bob about her career so far, and playing brand new material from her as yet unreleased debut album.

Born and brought up in rural Canada Townes is paving ground all her own.  She started her artistic journey to becoming one of country’s most promising new artists , in the backseat of a car. “I would obsess in the back seat over lyrics,” says Townes, who recalls drives in her home of Grande Prairie, a small town in Alberta, Canada, with her parents. “I would follow along to all of the words and sing along, and call out my favorites. Eventually, I started to learn all of the writer and producer names, just soaking it all up.”

Townes insisted that her parents sign her up for singing lessons at the age of five, which led to owning her first guitar at fourteen. Perfect timing, as Townes had already started to explore what it would be like to set her poetry to music. While other kids were reading Shakespeare and studying, Townes added the craft of famed songwriters like Carolyn Dawn Johnson to her workload, developing her own narrative style before most other teenagers even headed to prom. “There were a lot of things to write about at fourteen,” Townes says. “I’ve always craved what it felt like to step into other people’s shoes. And if songwriting was a way to step into character and make someone feel less alone, then I was all in.” It’s telling that Townes’ first song came from a conversation in social studies class – she thought about it on the entire bus ride home and hurried to her bedroom to put her feeling to words.

A decade later and Tenille is poised to become Nashville's next big thing, and she makes her UK session debut tonight!

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