Singer-songwriter Jessi Alexander

Alexander's Inspiration

In the June issue of Harp Magazine (on stands now), Jessi Alexander explains how the 1980 GMC Sierra Classic pickup she inherited from her late grandfather inspired the first line for the vivacious tune "The Long Way" from her debut album 'Honeysuckle Sweet' (Columbia, March 1, 2005).

"That’s me on the pickup truck waiting for some old boy to pick me up,” she says. “He wants to change my zip code and change my luck with warm beer and stale cigarettes. [It] came to me when I was thinking about being 16 on the back of that truck." Alexander says the best thing about the car is the smell of old leather, cigarettes, and beer adding that "it doesn’t have air conditioning, so the console has been baked by the Tennessee sun for over 20 years."

Next up for this southern singer/songwriter is a performance at the Bluebird Café in Nashville with Gary Nicholson (co-producer of 'Honeysuckle Sweet') and Matraca Berg (co-writer of "Strawberry Wine") and Friends followed by the Riverfront Stage at the CMA Fan Festival in Nashville, TN on June 10, 2005.

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