There's a lot to celebrate in the world of Lady A, as the group returned this year with another collection of Christmas songs, a holiday tour making its way across the country, and a few more family members to join the crew.
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As guests on this week's Superstar Power Hour, the trio tells Katie Neal that they are in their "baby boom era," as they have welcomed two new additions to the Lady A family in the past year, and one the previous year. "We're in a baby boom era," shares Dave Haywood. "That's our new mood."
Amongst all the life changes, the time felt right for the group to do a new holiday album, their first in 13 years, with the goal of taking it on tour to spread the Christmas cheer. "We really wanted to do a Christmas tour because in our entire career we have never," says Hillary Scott. "We've done a Christmas special. We've done 'CMA Country Christmas.' We've done some performances, but, we've always just talked about at some point we would love to tour for Christmas and so we thought, well, if we're touring we might as well freshen it up with some new music and so we got in the room and wrote two new originals and then, found a few of our favorite classics, and reimagined them."
After the holidays there's more Lady A to come, as the group shares there is a lot in the works for the next project. "We have a good hefty Dropbox file going of songs, and we're just excited," reveals Hillary. "We're creatively kind of brainstorming and talking right now, and then at the top of the year that'll be the focus of just digging in and seeing what stories we want to tell and, production. We want to just stretch ourselves more than we ever have. We've lived a lot of life since our last project. So, I think bringing in all that inspiration and, just discovering what we want to say and, and how we want to say it."
"I think we're definitely excited to explore to get, you know, maybe a little creatively uncomfortable."
"I think we've said a lot with the last few records, like we want to get back down back to the sound of kind of our first couple of records, and I think we've done that," adds Charles Kelley. "Now it's like we wanna get to a sound we've never explored and we don't know what that is. I think our voices are gonna be the thread of it, but I would love a risky, like she said, an uncomfortable feeling of production wise that we're not used to and embrace the imperfections, all those things, and so it's gonna be fun."
"This is the longest we've been in between records and I just think we're ready to kind of see if we can turn some heads, you know, in a cool way."
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