Cortney Tidwell

Possessing a lovely tone of voice and an ethereal melodic feeling that suggests a freak folk variation on Mazzy Star or This Mortal Coil, singer and songwriter Cortney Tidwell was created into a category of musicians, however in her early life this heritage appeared just as much a curse like a blessing. Tidwell was created in Nashville, TN, where her grandfather have been a successful documenting artist along with a guest around the Grand Ol’ Opry, her dad was a veteran A&R guy, her mother experienced landed many singles on the united states graphs in the 1970s, and their group of close friends included famous brands Townes Vehicle Zandt and Jack port Clement. However, within the middle-’70s Tidwell’s mom wad identified as having manic depressive disorder, and her parents split as her mom sunk deeper and deeper into depressive disorder, only to pass away only in 1999 at age 49. As a kid, Tidwell would play piano to flee the madness encircling her, but as time passes she found associate music using the discomfort of her child years and quit playing for quite some time. However, around enough time of her mother’s moving (which coincided using the suicide of the good friend), Tidwell came back to songwriting to create feeling of her emotions, and after performing inside a cover music group and developing a punk combo with a pal, she started recording her personal songs utilizing a makeshift house studio, playing all of the devices herself. With time, Tidwell started playing her materials in public, even though some audiences had been non-plussed with her tunes, she soon produced friends and followers of a few of Nashville’s most acclaimed music artists, including users of Lambchop and Hands Off Cuba. Within the springtime of 2005, Tidwell released her 1st record, a self-titled six-song EP released with the budding Nashville label Sissy Bragg Information. While touring as an starting take action for Lou Barlow, Tidwell’s music found the attention from the United kingdom label Even Information, who agreed upon her and released another EP in early 2006. Almost a year later, Tidwell’s initial full-length album made an appearance, DON’T ALLOW the Stars Maintain Us Tangled Up; it had been made by Tidwell and her hubby Todd Tidwell, and highlighted guest looks from Kurt Wagner and William Tyler of Lambchop.