Ali Sperry!

Fairfield native, Ali has become a fixture in the Nashville scene for over a decade. Her clear-eyed songs and vocal delivery are undeniably rooted in folk and country, simple and true, while toying with tones of modern indie-pop, rock, and old-school soul. She evokes stories of hearts broken and healing, the wistful burn of aspiration, and the universal quest for connection.

Her more recent journey into the joys of motherhood was especially hard fought, fraught with pain, grief, and spiritual exhaustion, which she does not shy away from on her new EP, When I Was a Mother and Other Songs. The embodiment of “If you know you know,” even in Nashville’s thick matrix of low key master song crafters, Sperry manages to keep her lens steady when turned directly on the darkest nights of the soul. Joy, grief, hope and trauma are treated with the same anti-operatic, crystalline under-singing that is her signature. When I Was A Mother was produced by Sperry’s husband and collaborator Jamie Dick at Joy Carnival - a studio built onto the back of their house during the pandemic. Even before the studio’s creation, Dick Manor was a social hub for East Nashville’s finest musicians. So it's not surprising that many turned up for the EP, lured by the prospect of maybe cutting a tune, but almost certainly sharing a bottle and a gang of laughs… the kind of laid back effortless musical connection that feels like a bygone dream of a lost Nashville.

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