Country Stars Central recently caught up wtih LeAnn to discuss her latest album “Lady & Gentlemen”

(CSC) 1. Congrats on the new record! Please tell us about “Lady & Gentlemen” and reasoning for the amount of time since the last release.

 

Thank you very much! No reason really on my part, this album was meant to come out last year and it kind of spiraled into really wanting to make sure it was the right time and the right moment and getting on the same page as the label. There are a lot of things that go on behind the scenes that I think a lot of people don’t see.

Sometimes we as an artist and managers have an idea of what we want and they have an idea of what they want, not that it is always a negative thing but sometimes it just doesn’t match. I think it’s because we just weren’t on the same page at the same time. I’m just excited that it’s finally out; it is very surreal for me. I say this every time but I think I’m proud of this record more than I was the last and I hope I can continue to say that because I’m growing as a woman and as an artist, and every time there’s a new adventure and a new creative process to fulfill.

 

With the concept being that these original songs were originally recorded by men but not from a woman’s perspective, I think a lot of people sometimes cringe when they think of an artist doing a covers record but with Vince Gill producing it and Darrell Brown being a huge part of the production, including myself, we are really kind of creating a story and a film almost I feel like on an album to listen to. These are genius songs that were huge hits and now from a woman’s perspective and a lot of them have never been performed by a woman before. It takes on a whole different connotation, I think the arrangements are genius, I think we pushed the envelope in a lot of things, I believe we paid homage to the originals on a lot of things and the people that grew up with these songs will forever love them I hope and the people that never heard these songs will bring them to a new generation of kids.