Charles Esten Returns To Heart Of Nashville With Debut Album

Love Ain’t PrettyCharles Esten’s freshly launched independent launching album, has actually been more than a years in the making. Fine-tuned by life and profession experiences, like starring in ABC/CMT’s
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series Nashville (Esten represented nation artist Deacon Claybourne), and being on the roadway with the sell-out Nashville The Reunion Tour, Love Ain’t Pretty has actually been a cumulative procedure for the actor-singer-songwriter.

Unlike the majority of nation artists with a launching album, Esten’s primetime exposure as a star (ABC/CMT’s Nashville Netflix’s External Bankshas actually assisted him construct a distinct fanbase Nashville put Esten in the spotlight as a singer-songwriter. And he has actually appeared on the Grand Ole Opry phase over 165 times. Love Ain’t Pretty is more of a deep dive than a detour for the complex artist whose numerous songs consist of “Undermine” with Hayden Pantettiere and “No One Will Ever Love You” with Connie Britton.

The Album

Composed with the knowledge and breadth that features time, Esten catches the measurements of love, loss, development, and hope. Co-writing all 14 tracks, he explains each as a various action in life.

“This (the album) has to do with that journey of life– about how tough all of it can be, however how worth it everything is. And all the tunes are various actions in that journey, which indicates ideally, and I never ever even considered this ’til after, that it’ll discover someone or everyone in whatever various location they are. It’ll satisfy you where you are. And ideally, you understand, discover you because minute and offer you a requirement because minute. Whether it’s a specific tune or specific line, a specific little music that you may link to it.”

The Emotions

Like Nashville’s Deacon Claybourne, the tracks provide a psychological roller rollercoaster with relatable simpleness that is simple to welcome. From wholehearted (“Love Ain’t Pretty,” “In a Bar Somewhere,” “One Good Move” and “Candlelight”) and defiant (“I Ain’t,” “Another Song About You”) to gut-punching (“When Love Ain’t Love) and empowering (“Maybe I’m Alright”), Esten’s songwriting taps the range of feelings and experiences consisting of extensive loss and sorrow (“Somewhere in The Sunshine”).

“Somewhere in The Sunshine” is as far from his spirited “Make You Happy” as you can get, however that was Esten’s objective– advising listeners of the highs, lows, and whatever in between.

“Make You Happy” Music Video

“Somewhere in The Sunshine” Official Music Video

Reality isn’t airbrushed. And Esten’s definitely hasn’t been. Over 20 years back, he and other half Patty dealt with every moms and dad’s headache when their child Addie was identified with leukemia. Addie had a complete healing.

Esten presently functions as the National Honorary Spokesperson for the Leukemia & & Lymphoma Society’s yearly Light The Night Walk. Together with the efforts of Patty and Addie and her 2 brother or sisters, their “Team Addie” functions as a design for fundraising success and expect households dealing with medical obstacles.

Before And After Deacon

A long time artist, Esten was a singer/songwriter before he played one. Having the chance to represent Deacon Claybourne, the painfully problematic nation artist provided him limitless lessons when it came to establishing and polishing his craft. Throughout his period on the program, he gained from a few of the very best songwriters and artists in business like famous manufacturer and guitar player T Bone Burnett.

“But the genuine lesson, if I’m truthful, is the lessons that the audience provided me. And what I indicate by that is, individuals either coming near me, or connecting on social networks, or in any other method, and speaking about how Deacon’s journey affected them and how it impacted them as they thought of their own daddy, as they considered their mom, their sis, their bro and the important things they were going through.”

Music As Therapy

Music has a method of providing convenience where other techniques often stop working or fail. Esten’s Nashville experiences highlighted that for him.

“I discovered that with the program Nashville in spades, that we would have these scenes that you might just state so much in the scene. And even my character, Deacon would just inform you a lot in a discussion, however you put him behind a guitar, and he’ll inform you anything. And I discovered through that, through the feedback from individuals that see Nashvillehow recovery a lot of that music was to them,” discusses Esten who serves on the board and as a volunteer for Musicians On Call, a non-profit that brings live and taped music to clients, households and caretakers in health care environments.

Esten’s 2024 Love Ain’t Pretty Tour will take the artist to locations throughout the U.S. and Europe.

“I have this theory that when we’re attempting to recover ourselves and we’re attempting to deal and process our own discomfort, it’s so tough to take a look at it head on, to challenge it, right– deal with to deal with. And the appeal of music and art and movie and all these things is they do not face us deal with to deal with. They slip in a side door to our heart. They are available in like a bank shot. And your guard is down, you’re simply taking pleasure in a program or you’re simply listening to the radio. And unexpectedly this thing has actually discovered its method into you. And it may harm a bit, however it’s sort of a cathartic recovery. It’s sort of a procedure.”