The Acrobat: A Place To Land Tenille Townes

• 1 ordinary love song 02:28
• 2 the acrobat (feat. Lori McKenna) 03:54
• 3 enabling 03:18
• 4 we could use a little more 03:32
• 5 wish i was in love 03:48
• 6 lonely talking 03:34
• 7 she plays the piano 04:05
• 8 the long haul 03:24
• 9 grey like Emmylou (feat. I'm With Her) 03:48
• 10 let him fly 03:17
• 11 what's meant for you 03:43
• 12 in love with the sky 04:19
• 13 she plays the piano (heartstrings version) 04:42
• Total Runtime 47:52

Info zu The Acrobat: A Place To Land

Today, acclaimed singer-songwriter Tenille Townes releases her new album "he Acrobat".

Tenille’s most stripped back and honest body of work to date, The Acrobat was a labor of love, completely recorded, produced and mixed by Townes’, who also played every instrument on the record. This raw and heartbreakingly intimate album tells the story of reclaiming the pieces of yourself lost by pleasing others and the freedom that comes with vulnerability and a perspective on the preciousness of time. The sparse production places an emphasis on Tenille’s beautiful storytelling ability and powerhouse vocals, creating a resonance that leaves the listener feeling like they’re in the room with the artist.

“The Acrobat” feat. Lori McKenna is the second single off the album, an emotional and empowering anthem about trusting yourself and learning that you don’t have to change yourself to be worthy of love.

Speaking on “The Acrobat,” Tenille Townes shares, “‘The Acrobat’ is about the slow erosion that comes from trying to become what someone else needs, constantly balancing, bending, and reshaping yourself. The quiet whisper to the character in this song that I hope people hear, is that you don’t have to contort yourself to be worthy of love. That’s what I needed to hear in my struggles with self abandonment and writing this with Lori from a channeled observer perspective helped me get back to that belief. Lori’s songwriting has deeply shaped the way I hear music and tell the truth. She is a true hero of mine and has been a compass influence since I first moved to Nashville. Writing this song with her, and feeling her presence on it as a vocalist, makes this release an incredibly meaningful, full-circle moment for me.”

Lori McKenna continued, “Every time I write with Tenille, it’s like a new layer of honesty shines through her. In the case of ‘The Acrobat’, it seemed like she was almost channelling someone else. We wrote about a character we both could identify with – like she is someone we ourselves narrowly missed being. When Tenille asked me to sing this one with her, it made sense for my voice to represent the elder-knowledge in the song – but Tenille is the one pointing straight to that wisdom. I’m a big fan of the magic Tenille makes, and my favorite part is that even when you distill it down, all she’s doing is singing somebody’s truth.

The Acrobat is the Nashville-based songwriter’s third album, marking a clear shift toward a more intimate, singer-songwriter, folk-leaning sound, one that strips everything back to lyric, melody and emotional truth. Written during a period of profound personal and professional transition, the record finds her standing at a crossroads between who she has been and who she is becoming. Relationship endings, career shifts, and the overwhelming noise of the world around her pushed Townes inward, where she began peeling back long-held patterns of people-pleasing and self-sacrifice. What emerged is her most stripped-down and intimate body of work to date, rooted in vulnerability, courage, and the quiet tenacity it takes to keep moving forward when certainty falls away.

“The truth of this song led me to find the courage to trust my own intuition again, and to reclaim my creative autonomy in making this entire album, “ says Tenille, “It became a symbol of the leap into the great unknown, choosing to be an independent artist again without a safety net, and I’m deeply proud of this collection of songs I made in that flight path.”

The Acrobat also includes an additional feature with recent Grammy winners I’m With Her on “grey like Emmylou” and other tracks written with Grammy winning writers Lori McKenna, Amy Wadge and Daniel Tashian. The collection also includes a few penned solely by Townes.

Tenille Towne

Tenille Townes
Canadian-born and Nashville-based, Townes recently won four awards at the 2019 Canadian Country Music Awards: Female Artist of the Year, Single of the Year (“Somebody’s Daughter”), Anthem Entertainment Songwriter of the Year and Video of the Year (“Somebody’s Daughter”). Winning all four of her nominated categories, Townes lead the night with the most awards received. She is also a MusicRow 2020 Next Big Thing Artist, an iHeartCountry’s “On The Verge” artist and has been included in Amazon Music’s “2019 Artists To Watch,” CMT’s “Next Women of Country,” iHeart Radio’s “Artists To Watch in 2019,” “The Bobby Bones Show’s” “Class of 2019,” CMT’s “Listen Up” and the inaugural class of “Opry NextStage.” Townes also recently participated in Cracker Barrel’s “Five Decades, One Voice” campaign—a project created to highlight the importance of women in country music by celebrating legendary female artists and those following in their footsteps. For the project, Townes was personally selected by Brandi Carlile to collaborate on new versions of two songs—Townes’ “ Somebody’s Daughter” and Carlile’s “Fulton County Jane Doe.”

In addition to her work as a musician and songwriter, Townes remains committed to charitable causes including her own initiative, Big Hearts For Big Kids, which has raised over $1.9 million to date benefiting a youth shelter in her hometown of Grande Prairie, Alberta.

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