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<\/p>\nBased in Upstate South Carolina, Angela Easterling began her recording career with the aptly-titled 2007 album Earning Her Wings<\/i>. Her fifth album, 2015\u2019s Common Law Wife<\/i> soared to the top spot on the Roots Music Report\u2019s Americana country album chart. Easterling has earned high-profile spots onstage at the Americana Festival in Nashville and the CMA Music Festival; she has toured extensively across the South and Mid Atlantic U.S., with dates as far away as Southern California.<\/p>\n
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As a songwriter, she has earned recognition as a three time finalist in the Kerrville New folk competitions (2009, 2010 and 2015) and the Wildflower Performing Songwriter competition in 2012 and 2015). Her most recent album is 2022\u2019s Witness<\/i>; like many of her projects, that record benefits from successful creative collaboration with guitarist Brandon Turner, who also happens to be her life partner.<\/p>\n
Even though her recording career has yet to reach the 20-year mark, Easterling has been immersed in music since childhood. \u201cI was really creative as a kid,\u201d she says. \u201cI used to make up songs about my life: was always walking around singing.\u201d A born performer, Easterling got involved with community theater when she was 11 years old. But that was just part of her creative involvement. \u201cI played in the school band, I sang in the choir, and I went to the Fine Arts Center, a special high school in Greenville,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
But it was in her college years when things began to coalesce for Easterling. \u201cI always loved reading and books,\u201d she explains. Seeking to combine all of her passions, she took up guitar. \u201cWhen I got my first guitar, I had written a song within a week, I was still trying to figure out how to play it,\u201d she admits with a laugh. \u201cBut all of that came together: a love of being creative, a love of writing, of literature, of storytelling, and performing.\u201d Today, she says she can\u2019t even imagine any other kind of life.<\/p>\n
With a family to raise, these days Easterling and Turner have scaled back their extensive touring schedule. \u201cWe\u2019re mostly regional artists now, \u201cShe says. \u201cWe see a lot of familiar faces at many of our shows, and that’s a good thing.\u201d She\u2019s grateful for the life she leads. \u201cWe have the opportunity to be working musicians and<\/i> be home with our kids,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Easterling\u2019s life offstage informs the songs she writes. She says that her latest album Witness<\/i> is about \u201clooking out on the world around me and also drawing from my day-to-day life. I’m a mom of three little ones.\u201d She and Turner live on a farm that has been in her family for many generations. \u201cThat inspires me as well,\u201d she says. Her lyrics are both personal and relatable. \u201cI always want to write something so that someone else can appreciate and understand or empathize,\u201d she says. \u201cThat’s where the storytelling comes in: you can get the idea across without preaching. Because as an artist, that\u2019s what I really want most of all: that connection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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