{"id":1383627,"date":"2018-10-03T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/?p=1383627"},"modified":"2018-10-03T13:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T17:05:40","slug":"stephanie-quayle-returns-to-town-for-july-4th-take-2-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/2018\/10\/03\/stephanie-quayle-returns-to-town-for-july-4th-take-2-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Quayle returns to town for July 4th Take 2 show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-27Dbs0MxhY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The last time Stephanie Quayle was in Frederick, it rained. And it rained hard. She was part of the WFRE Country Stage lineup in Baker Park on the Fourth of July. But rain or no rain, Quayle set up in a little tent and put on a little show.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed that, you have a second chance to see the country artist Rolling Stone Country and others have named one of 2018\u2019s artists to watch. Quayle, along with Trent Harmon (\u201cThere\u2019s A Girl,\u201d \u201cYou Got \u2018Em All\u201d), will be in concert tonight at Champion Billiards Sports Bar, 5205 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, for the July 4th Take 2 concert, hosted by WFRE. Doors open at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrederick is one of my favorite places,\u201d Quayle said in a recent phone interview. \u201cI love [Champions]. We\u2019ve played there before with WFRE and they\u2019re supporters of St. Jude [Children\u2019s Hospital].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Montana native grew up on a farm, where the family raised bison, horses, cattle and chickens. The barn was her country music stage as she tuned the radio to a country station while mucking the muck from the stalls. Even then, she knew her destiny was music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started singing when I was a teeny tiny girl, singing in the choir, singing in church, singing anywhere anyone would let me sing,\u201d Quayle said.<\/p>\n<p>As a junior in high school, she was an exchange student to Switzerland and there found herself on stage with a band that had just lost its lead singer. She auditioned and was hired. The band played all genres and put no boundaries on instrumentation, \u201cwhich really was good for me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my after-school program. That\u2019s when I knew this would be my life,\u201d Quayle said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how it would happen, but I knew it would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Back in the States, she moved to the West Coast, singing, songwriting and learning from other artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was singing and songwriting until I knew in my gut it was time to move to Nashville,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew it would be my life. My gut, my heart said it\u2019s now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p>She met other songwriters, went to showcases and started over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI basically threw out what I knew and started from the ground up,\u201d Quayle said.<\/p>\n<p>She went to songwriter nights and watched other songwriters perform with just their voice and an acoustic guitar, and that \u201cjust got hold of me. As a songwriter, to be able to sound so raw, vulnerable\u201d was inspiring to her.<\/p>\n<p>Her current album was released in September 2017 and features the single, \u201cDrinking with Dolly.\u201d Written by Rachel Proctor and Victoria Banks, Quayle said the first time she heard the song \u201cthe little hairs stood up on my arms and the tears just flowed.\u201d She named it and claimed it but had no idea it would be the first of her songs to chart on Billboard, the first song she would sing on national television or the first song she would sing at her Grand Ole Opry debut, which was in April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis song, from the first time I heard it, it just struck a chord,\u201d Quayle said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tribute to the women of country music \u2014 Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, among others \u2014 and how awesome it would be to sit around the table with those women and have a drink and talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI consider myself a modern traditionalist,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s what I\u2019m driven to. I love country music. I love bending the boundaries of that, but you can\u2019t take out my twang. It\u2019s always authentic in my voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When her schedule allows it, Quayle travels from show to show in a 2015 Winnebago, which also happens to be the title of a song, one of the six she co-wrote for her \u201cLove The Way You See Me\u201d album.<\/p>\n<p>In summer 2017, Quayle traveled 9,000 miles, crisscrossing the country and \u201cliving the song,\u201d staying at KOA Campgrounds performing in music venues and popup shows at campgrounds. KOA was a tour sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the songs are inspired by her husband, David, whom she calls her muse. Take the new single \u201cSelfish,\u201d which is \u201c1,000 percent\u201d inspired by David. It\u2019s a song that puts a positive spin on a negative word and it hits home for Quayle who said that the couple spends so much time apart that when they are together, she is a little selfish when it comes to sharing him with friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPost It\u201d is also inspired by her husband who leaves little post-it notes for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a fun song to sing and it\u2019s real life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShoebox,\u201d is also a true story from her life, she said, and about sorting through memories after a breakup.<\/p>\n<p>Songwriters are always on when it comes to listening for song ideas, she said. \u201cI\u2019ve Got Your Six\u201d was inspired by words of the man who married Stephanie and David, she said. It\u2019s a military way of saying \u201cI\u2019ve got your back.\u201d \u201cSecond Thoughts,\u201d a duet with Lucas Hoge, was triggered by a phone conversation with her little brother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just said, \u2018I gotta go. I need another round of second thoughts.\u2019 I said, \u2018Wait, what did you just say &#8230; No way, I\u2019m the one who\u2019s gotta go\u2019,\u201d and soon a song was born.<\/p>\n<p>Quayle said her show at Champions will be \u201ca modified acoustic show, sort of quasi acoustic and quasi electric. \u201cIt will be a really special night!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>You can read more of Susan Guynn\u2019s interview with Stephanie Quayle at her blog, Three Chords and the Truth, at blog.fredericknewspost.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Stephanie Quayle was in Frederick, it rained. And it rained hard. 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