SHEILA MARSHALL
https://www.sheilamarshall.com/
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Considering her humble raisin' on the Louisiana border in the tiny East Texas town of Nacogdoches, it should come as no surprise that Sheila Marshall's earliest — and fondest — musical memories are firmly rooted in the Three C's: church and classic country. "My parents had a really bad divorce, and I lived with my mom in a trailer park for pretty much my whole life, so the church I went to was kind of an escape," she recalls. "It was a small church, but the music had a lot of soul, and I just loved it. I think that was a huge influence on me. But I have to say that my mom really influenced me, too, because she was a big fan of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Loretta, all that stuff. And that's what we did on Friday and Saturday nights: listen to those albums over and over and over ...
"I think I knew every Patsy Cline song that was ever made," she adds with a laugh. "And I mean, all the words."
In fact, she likely still knows them all — and odds are she could probably still sing the everl-iving hell out of a gospel hymn, too. But as Marshall makes clear from minute-one on her new album, Good to Be Me, somewhere along the way that little stay-at-home-on-Saturday-nights choirgirl took a giant bite out of the devil's apple and grew up to be a bona fide badass rock 'n' roll gypsy. Or come to think of it, maybe that Sheila was inside of her all along, just waiting for the right time to break free. Because there's just something about the ultra-confident way this woman can sing a line like "I was born for trouble and trouble is all I'll be" over a snaky slide guitar groove that rings righteously true. Just ask Ray Wylie Hubbard, a man who knows more than a little about such things.
"Sheila Marshall has compelling songs, a delicious cool voice, and fire and soul," affirms the renowned Americana artist and songwriter's songwriter, sealing his approval with two little words that tell you all you really need to know about Marshall's credentials as Hubbard-certified, grade A Real Deal: "I dig."
