I have been lucky enough to call Kelsey a friend for a while now. I now get to introduce her to you. Before we get to the interview though, please look out for the Orange Infused Buttermilk Donuts with Chocolate Dipping Sauce recipe she inspired. At the bottom, we have a giveaway for you as well. Let’s get to it! Here is our interview with country music artist Kelsey Lamb.
Tell us about your road to Nashville.
Well, my journey to Nashville started in late 2016. I had just come off of a Christmas musical tour, called “The Toy Shoppe” which was written by Kenny Rogers, at the beginning of that year and got the music bug big time. I grew up knowing I wanted to be a singer, but it took that tour to really push me to turn it into a career. So, later that year I started renting Airbnb’s and coming to Nashville for about 2 weeks at a time and trying to fit in, in a town where I barely knew anyone. I fell in love with the city and the songwriting industry and now I’ve been here for almost 4 years and wouldn’t change a thing!
If you could not play music, what do you think you would be doing?
If I could absolutely not play music ever again, I would probably go into journalism!
Define success.
I think success is when you find you are genuinely happy doing what you love every single day. I’ve learned over the last couple of years that success doesn’t come in a perfect little packaged career, it comes in waves and phases of life that you grow with. I think I’ve found success in different phases of my life, in different ways that maybe didn’t line up with what I thought success was supposed to be.
If you came with a warning label, what would yours say?
Oh goodness, haha. My warning label would say “Comes filled with anxiety and stupid theme songs for every part of the day”.
We are always developing recipes here at Southern Fellow; when writing music, what recipe do you use?
During a songwriting session, I am typically the artist in the room and I try my hardest to bring a title that I am passionate about or a story that I want to tell and we go from there!
What is the funniest thing that has ever happened during a performance?
Uhhh…. That’s so hard. I guess the funniest moment would have to be when I was playing a show at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville and I was halfway into my first song and I got a bubble in my throat and basically burped in the mic… it was unexpected. Haha