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Grammy Award-winning country music singer Ashley McBryde joins Vernon Kay to look in-depth at her Tracks Of My Years - ten songs that soundtrack her life so far, including Dolly Parton, Elvis, Alison Krauss and Alabama.

Ashley discusses being the youngest of six children growing up on an Arkansas farm, her early experiences listening to her Dad鈥檚 Kris Kristofferson records and seeing The Chicks in concert. We get the stories how she overcame shyness by joining in local bluegrass sessions, the one special song that sent her to Nashville, the hard graft along her road to success and sobriety, and... how she nearly set fire to Dolly Parton鈥檚 house with a microwave!

Born in Arkansas, USA, in 1983, Ashley McBryde grew up playing her father's guitar before being given her own and had written her first song by the age of 12. In the mid-00s she moved to Nashville and worked at a guitar shop whilst performing at as many gigs and open-mic nights as possible. In 2016 she released the EP Jalopies & Expensive Guitars, which was discovered by musician Eric Church and playing on tour with him led to her first management deal. In 2017 she performed at the Grand Ole Opry for the first time and had her first Grammy nomination. In 2018 she released her debut album, Girl Going Nowhere, to critical acclaim. In 2023 she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for her duet with Carly Pearce on the song Never Wanted To Be That Girl - which goes alongside five more nominations as well as several major country music awards. Last year she performed at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of the historic Grand Ole Opry: Live in London show, hosted by Vernon. She now releases her fifth studio album, Wild, at the start of this month.

A 麻豆社 Audio production for 麻豆社 Radio 2.