{"id":15767,"date":"2021-01-29T11:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=15767"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:08:12","slug":"asheville-songwriter-anna-lynch-prepping-ep-apples-in-the-fall-for-march-13-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=15767","title":{"rendered":"Asheville Songwriter Anna Lynch prepping EP, Apples in the Fall, for March 13 release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Asheville Songwriter Anna Lynch prepping EP,
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Great songwriters can turn the hardest hits in their lives into the best songs. There\u2019s a worrying ache to these songs, a hint of bitterness, and a sense of loss. And if the songwriter has a sense of humor, there\u2019s a bite to their lyrics. It\u2019s not easy to fake, and it\u2019s this heartbreak that lies at the heart of the best country songs. With this in mind, North Carolina songwriter <\/strong>Anna Lynch<\/strong><\/b> has turned her own recent heartaches and lost days into a series of songs for her new EP Apples in the Fall <\/em><\/i><\/b>(March 13, 2020<\/strong><\/b>). These songs speak to love in the modern age as easily as they reference the country songs of old, and there\u2019s a hint of wry irony in many of her lyrics. \u201cHe touches my backbone, and proves that I\u2019ve got one, so I\u2019ll pick a fight,\u201d she sings in \u201cHotter than Hades.\u201d It\u2019s hard to write songs that are both brutally personal but also universally relatable. That\u2019s the magic trick to great songwriting, but Lynch finds it easier to relate in song than in person. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s easier for me to show my heart in songs,\u201d she says, \u201cwhereas in a day to day, I definitely use sarcasm to relate. I guess some people have called me standoffish. And that really sucks because I’m actually a really nice person.\u201d Lynch is quick to laugh, but slow to forget, and she\u2019s learned not to be afraid of drawing her own story into her songs.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a long path for <\/strong>Anna Lynch<\/strong><\/b> to release these new songs. She first recorded them after a hard landing in Portland, Oregon, when she decided to leave her adopted home state of Alaska. Alaska\u2019s tight-knit and supportive music community had helped her build her songwriting reputation early on, and though her birth state of California informed the EP\u2019s title song, \u201cApples in the Fall,\u201d other songs were written on the road, while moving, even in the Austin airport in one case. She\u2019s settled down a bit now from her nomadic lifestyle, putting down roots in North Carolina, and finding a new music community there to help her turn these earlier songs into full band arrangements.<\/p>\n

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Like many today, Lynch has a sense that American culture, and the music industry especially, are due for a massive change. Speaking about the new wave of powerhouse women at the forefront of Americana and country right now, Lynch says \u201cwe’re screaming so loud that if you didn\u2019t hear us before, it’s kind of impossible not to now. I love that.\u201d Lynch also wants to relate an honest perspective on love in country and Americana songs, where traditionally internal conflicts and doubt have translated as \u201cwhiny\u201d when a woman sings them, but powerful when a man sings about them. Her standout song \u201cHotter Than Hades,\u201d as Lynch says, \u201cis about modern love in the age of Tinder. What that looks like and also not being judgmental to yourself. It’s okay to want what you want and get what you want and be the person you are. I think a lot of people do feel judged a lot of times for being themselves and taking joy in things that they take joy in. And I wanted to put that out there because I know I’m not the only one.\u201d She may not be the only one experiencing the strangeness of love in modern times, but she\u2019s one of the very few that can write such cutting and beautiful songs about it. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asheville Songwriter Anna Lynch prepping EP, Apples in the Fall, for March 13 release   Great songwriters can turn the hardest hits in their lives into the best songs. There\u2019s a worrying ache to these songs, a hint of bitterness, and a sense of loss. And if the songwriter has a sense of humor, there\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t