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Lindsay Ell: ‘I Will Stand Up For What I Believe In’

Lindsay Ell releases her new Heart Theory album on Friday (8/14) and she’s been on Zoom calls and phone interviews for days promoting the new work, which features her new…

Lindsay Ell: 'I Will Stand Up For What I Believe In'
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Lindsay Ell releases her new Heart Theory album on Friday (8/14) and she's been on Zoom calls and phone interviews for days promoting the new work, which features her new single "Want Me Back" she co-wrote with Kane Brown.

Lindsay, like so many around the country, walked in protest a few months back for the Black Lives Matter movement in Nashville and shares her thoughts and beliefs on her socials with fans even though she has lost followers for it.

She told us, "I feel like there are certain times in our world when it is even raised further than a political issue, it's not a left and right thing, it's a humanity thing. And as we've seen over the past few months Black Lives Matter and we need to as human beings learn to love other human beings on a deeper level on this planet."

Ell adds, "And anything that talks about that I will definitely be prepared to stand up and talk about. Even though when I did post pictures of going to a march, I mean, thousands and thousands and thousands of followers were just falling off and it's like, 'Okay.' It's the time we're in in our world right now and I will stand up for what I believe in. It's not a political thing for me; it's about loving each other."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.