![]() ![]() One second my world is crumbling, the next the world is picking me up. It was an incredible feeling, I just knew in my heart that something was happening, but I couldn’t even have dreamed that I was going to sign a record deal, that my life was going to change. It’s kind of crazy, because everyone tells you, y ou don’t know when you’re at rock bottom, but you truly don’t know the good thing is just around the corner.Īnd I wrote this song, Just About Over You, and it just took off. I was behind on rent, I had to move out of my apartment into this shack with no AC. Even my side job, cleaning AirBnbs, I didn’t have that because no one was traveling. I define “success” as when I could pay my bills my playing music! I was playing full time in bars, I was able to pay my rent, I was getting by.Īnd then the world shut down. I literally started taking every opportunity, just walking to people, introducing myself and telling them I just moved here, I want to do music. I quit my job, quit school, decided to say yes to everything - any gig, any person that would write a song with me, any person that would take me up on coffee. But that meeting, running into my idol, was everything I needed to keep going. And we talked a little bit, I didn’t even tell her I did music. I was calling my sister telling her, I’m so depressed, this is the hardest thing.Īnd then one day I’m leaving work, and I’m wearing my Taylor Swift shirt, and she - Taylor Swift! - she saw me from her car, and pulled over, and said, I like your shirt! She literally pulled over and leaned over the console and opened the door. But in reality, I was working at that yogurt shop 9-5, and then doing community college 6-9, and there wasn’t so much time for music. So I’d done a lot of research about her moving to Nashville, I’d studied her career. Here was this girl doing it who made me feel like I could do. So I’d always loved Taylor Swift, growing up that was a huge reason I fell in love with country music. ![]() Tell me about the Taylor Swift encounter. And when I got there, I did everything I could to pay my rent, from walking dogs to nannying, I worked in a yogurt shop for a long time, I would find a couch next to a dumpster by an apartment building, and take pictures and sell it on Craigslist - whatever I had to do to pay rent without asking my parents for money. I’ve always been kind of fearless, so my parents weren’t shocked to hear that this was a plan. There was no, if this doesn’t work out…, it was just, All right, there she goes!. I think they always knew I was going to do it. Photograph by Logen Christopher What did your parents think? Then right after high school I just packed up some of my stuff and threw it into my Chevy Malibu and moved to Nashville. I played at Sola a lot- I’d play anywhere they’d let me play! I performed all over Raleigh and Clayton, I played a lot with a guy named Johnny Orr who would just let me follow him around and hop on stage. Then my first gigs were at the Caribou Coffee on Brier Creek. The sort of stuff I would write in my diary turn into songs. I wrote about the typical high school stuff, navigating through those years, the first crushes and little heartbreaks. Then I started writing songs when I was about 15. I loved that I could take the guitar with me everywhere. My mom really wanted me to be involved in music, so she pushed me - she said if I could just find something that excited me, she’d support it. It brough my joy to play it, where piano always seemed like a chore. I never practiced! But then I ended up finding a guitar in our attic and I started teaching myself to play through YouTube. My neighbor was a piano teacher, that’s how it started. We check in with her on the cusp of her European tour for Welcome to the Block Party. There, a chance encounter with Taylor Swift gave her the momentum to rev up her career. The North Raleigh native moved to Nashville right after graduating from Leesville High School. From classic country fare (see: whisky, heartbreak) to her viral song with a cheeky message about body positivity, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard of Priscilla Block. ![]()
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