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March 29, 2024: Today, the GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Ashley Monroe released a reinvented version of Fred Eaglesmith’s “I Like Trains,” her first release of new music this year following her late 2023 single “Over Everything.” Monroe has also announced her first Nashville headlining show since 2015 at Eastside Bowl on April 23 alongside her close friends and collaborators Shelby Lynne, Brendan Benson, Meg McCree and Ben Chapman.
Monroe will also head to the UK this September to support Little Big Town on their “Friends of Mine” tour. Find a full list of tour dates at her website.
Watch the official video for “I Like Trains.”
About “I Like Trains,” Monroe explains: “From the time I heard Fred Eaglesmith’s songs years ago, I was hooked. This has always been one of my favorite songs of his. Something deep inside of me feels haunted when I sing it. I recorded this sitting on the front porch of a cabin in the Smokies, and let all the critters sing it with me.”Over the past two years, Monroe has remained busy writing and collaborating, most recently appearing on Ben Chapman’s single “Is It Ever Really Gone” and co-writing Miranda Lambert and Leon Bridges’ “If You Were Mine.” Her critically-acclaimed 2021 album Rosegold received praise from Rolling Stone, The Nashville Scene, No Depression, Vulture, Paste Magazine, Garden & Gun, Stereogum, Pitchfork and many more. In their 2021 Best Albums of the Year coverage Vulture proclaimed, “Monroe continues to refine her talents as a writer and a vocalist while expanding her artistic palette in a batch of songs that slides from synth-pop to spectral, psychedelic R&B to gothic pop to lush, orchestral balladry to muted country rock.”
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