Ashley Monroe

American country singer Ashley Monroe was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on September 10, 1986. The daughter of music lovers, she took her first piano lessons at the age of seven and won a singing competition at eleven. After her father's death, she began writing her own songs, performing in Nashville clubs. Signed to the Columbia label, she recorded her first album, but its release in 2007 was postponed. Entitled Satisfied, it finally saw the light of day in 2009 and included the duet "I Don't Want To" with Ronnie Dunn (of Brooks & Dunn). In 2011, Ashley Monroe formed the group Pistol Annies with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley, which recorded two albums, then teamed up with Vince Gill to produce her second album Like a Rose (2013), which included the hit "Weed Instead of Roses". A second Pistol Annies album was released two months later. In 2014, she sang with Blake Shelton on "Lonely Nights" (ranked #2 country) and reunited with Vince Gill for her third album The Blade, released in July 2015, which took her to #2 on the country charts. On the heels of an album produced live in Jack White's studio, Live at Third Man Records (2016), Ashley Monroe gets to work on the songs for Sparrow (2018), produced by Dave Cobb, which doesn't score from the previous two albums (No. 158). In 2021 follows the intimate Rosegold, with various producers including Nathan Chapman, known for his work with Taylor Swift. A covers EP in collaboration with Tyler Cain appeared a few months later, followed by a handful of isolated singles, before the release in 2025 of the sixth album Tennessee Lighting, featuring contributions from T-Bone Burnett, Marty Stuart, Brendan Benson, Karen Fairchild, Armand Hutton, Carter Faith and Brittney Spencer.