![]() ![]() And Mallory had a neighbor who was a long-haul trucker named Carole. LEIGH: I wrote "Carol With An E" with my friend Mallory Eagle, who's a songwriter from Oklahoma. GONYEA: Where did this character, where did this song come from? Red Sovine blastin' ever lastin', how I'd like to be like Carole with an E. In pearls and kitten heels, she'll slam that hammer down on 18 wheels. There ain't no town clown gonna slow her down or rain on her parade. She's doin' her thing in the left-hand lane. LEIGH: (Singing) She ain't afraid of any grade. GONYEA: You've given us a song about a woman in what maybe has traditionally been thought of as a man's job, and it's called "Carole With An E." Let's give a listen to a bit of it. You know, Patsy Cline would be a great example of somebody that - she was just this raw nerve of a soul in her singing and the songs that she would choose. LEIGH: (Singing) I'd like to lose your number and forget your name. We had things like shame and regret that were right at the center of the songwriting. If you look at some of the songs from even the '40s and '50s, I feel like one thing we really had going for us in those days was we had this raw human emotion. There was just an honesty to songs that I think people were really tapped into in those days. LEIGH: (Singing) Every time I do, I remember why I don't. LEIGH: That's been said about that track. GONYEA: I admit that when I first heard your song "Every Time I Do," it felt like you were channeling, not impersonating, but channeling the great Patsy Cline. You know, is it real country if it doesn't have a steel guitar? Is it real country if it mentions a cellphone? Do we want it to be a museum relic that's perfectly preserved and never changes, or do we want it to be relevant to real life? And we do a lot of quibbling back and forth about what's real country and what isn't. There are a lot of different kinds of country, and I think we have kind of a strange, awkward authenticity obsession in our genre. LEIGH: I don't think we need to define country music in a narrow way. GONYEA: How do you define that honky-tonk sound? I mean, what are the ingredients? What are the arrangements? What are the instruments? And, yeah, I'm talking to you from London. And we're catching up with her out on the road somewhere in the U.K., I understand, promoting it. GONYEA: Brennen Leigh describes her new record as vintage country. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "I AIN'T THROUGH HONKY TONKIN' YET")īRENNEN LEIGH: (Singing) But I ain't through honky-tonkin' yet. In her own words, she ain't through honky-tonkin' yet. Now, these days, country radio has strayed from that classic sound, but not so our next guest. There's Hank, and there's Cash and Carter and Dolly and Loretta. Country music has a long, long list of greats. ![]()
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