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The Very Strange Way Ashe Made The Most Of Her New Album, Ashlyn · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest moral of the story.
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  Speaker 1: Singer Ash's debut album, Ashland blowing. Reviews have described it
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  Speaker 1: as epic and even grandiose, which wouldn't be surprising except
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  Speaker 1: for the bare bones way that Ash and her friends
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  Speaker 1: composed the majority of its songs outside, sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: grass in her own yard, with a simple setup she
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  Speaker 1: came up with in order to collaborate safely with others.
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  Speaker 1: She tells American songwriter, we wrote so many songs out
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  Speaker 1: on the lawn. I only had a tiny keyboard hooked
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  Speaker 1: up to a computer and an acoustic guitar. We didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a whole studio setup where we get to play
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  Speaker 1: with all those toys, so a lot of the songs
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  Speaker 1: were written really getting the bones and the story right first.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of preferred now because once all the lyrics
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  Speaker 1: and bones are there, you can pay attention to the
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  Speaker 1: production in a different way. Based on the critical reception
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  Speaker 1: of hundreds of millions of streams, the album has already
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  Speaker 1: picked up only in a few short weeks. It certainly
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  Speaker 1: seemed to work for Ash. Her debut LP Ashland out now,
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  Speaker 1: that's direct from Hollywood,