Interview with Michelle Turley

Interview with Michelle Turley

CL: I am Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Michelle Turley. Michelle, welcome to the show.

MT: Thank you very much, pleasure to be here.

CL: Michelle, can you please introduce yourself to the European country music fans who may be hearing about you for the first time?

MT: Sure, I am Michelle Turley, I’m originally from New Mexico in the US, a little tiny town and I’m kind of new to country music. This is my second CD that will be released in June. We had much success with our first CD with two number-one hits. “Caroline” and “Hard Times” both on the Indie World Country Chart and also New Music Weekly as high as the top ten. I’m real happy about that. We’re just releasing our second single called “My X Husband” and you can follow that through a lot of the websites www.michelleturley.com and www.myspace.com/michelleturley and keep your fingers crossed. We’ll see what happens.

CL: The title “My X Husband”, am I allowed to ask if it’s about you?

MT: Well, I think it’s pretty self-explanatory don’t you? (laughing) Yes, it is, it’s inspired by my ex-husband. I didn’t write this song, I can’t take credit for it. My brother wrote the song, it’s a family affair, we do everything together. I have two brothers that are involved producing and writing as well. He wrote this song based on my relationship based on my ex-husband. We released it on Valentine’s Day. How apropos!

CL: Did he get a lot of insight stories from you about your marriage about you and your ex-husband or?

MT: Yes he did, there is a little bit of embellishment as well, but it makes for a fun song, I think everybody that listens to it, regardless on going through a bad relationship or not. It’s more of a spoof than a comedy than anything, just to laugh at the whole idea of divorce instead of being sad about it.

CL: Let me ask you, what uniqueness differentiate you to other artists?

MT: Oh my voice, my voice is very unique and the style of writing the music. It’s definitely more old-style country, which I prefer the traditional style with a little bit of update with the production and everything. My heart belongs to the old-style of traditional country and I don’t think there really has been a large market for that lately, and I certainly hope to try to be the one to bring that back. I think that’s about it, unique that way.

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