Listen to her heart-scouring alt-folk and country ballads about break-ups, breakdowns, toxic relationships and breezy affairs, and Courtney Marie Andrews reads like a lyricist prepared to lay it all on the line in the service of a truthful song. But by her own admission, that openness is at odds with how she comes across the rest of the time.
“You know what’s really funny,” Andrews says via video from her home in Nashville, “in my personal life, I’m not very revealing at all. At some point, in my childhood, I clicked that I didn’t have to burden anybody with my stuff, and I could just put it in a song, or put it in art, and that would be enough.”
