{"id":13838,"date":"2017-07-21T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/?page_id=13838"},"modified":"2017-07-21T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:02:03","slug":"bonnie-bishop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/bonnie-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bonnie-lee-bishop\"It\u2019s only a matter of time until Hollywood snaps up the story of how singer-songwriter Bonnie Bishop<\/strong> connected with Dave Cobb, one of the hottest producers in the business, to unlock her inner soul singer and record the best album of her career: \u201cAin\u2019t Who I Was\u201d.<\/p>\n

Even though Bishop can barely believe it herself, it\u2019s a story that will need no dramatic embellishment, because every twist of fate \u2014 and faith \u2014 is absolutely true.<\/p>\n

Before landing with Cobb, whose credits include Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson, Bishop had thrown in the towel on her country-leaning career, too frustrated, beat-up and broke to go on after 13 years, five albums and one failed marriage. It landed on the rag pile despite monogramming by her idol, Bonnie Raitt, who recorded a Bishop\/Big Al Anderson co-write on her comeback album, \u201cSlipstream.\u201d The song, \u201cNot Cause I Wanted To,\u201d topped the New York Times\u2019 year-end best-of list, then \u201cSlipstream\u201d won 2012\u2019s Best Americana Album Grammy. Bishop also popped onto iTunes\u2019 country chart in 2013 with a song delivered by Connie Britton, the star of ABC-TV\u2019s hit series \u201cNashville.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a girl can only live so long on accolades and exposure. After spending 200 nights a year on the road \u2014 loading her own gear, running her own sound and sleeping in her van \u2014 and still not earning enough to afford Christmas presents for her family, Bishop knew she\u2019d hit a dead end.<\/p>\n

But before leaving Nashville, she called Thirty Tigers co-founder David Macias, whose multi-faceted entertainment company handles Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Simpson and Isbell \u2014 whose Cobb-produced release won 2015\u2019s Best Americana Album Grammy.<\/p>\n

Macias sent Cobb some demos. Cobb invited her to lunch. At the time, he was working with Stapleton, recording what would become 2015\u2019s Best Country Album Grammy winner and 2016\u2019s ACM Album of the Year. \u00a0Bishop flew to Nashville to meet him. Cobb told her she should be singing soul, not country, and that he\u2019d been wanting to record a soul album.<\/p>\n

She was thrilled. As a child in Houston, she\u2019d heard her surgeon father, a former musician, playing blues piano, and her cellist mother spinning Motown singles. After they split, her mother married football coach Jackie Sherrill, who took a coaching job at Mississippi State.<\/p>\n

Cobb picked six songs from her list of 36, including six she co-wrote, and they found four more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe record is called \u2018Ain\u2019t Who I Was\u2019 because I\u2019m not the same person I was, personally or musically,\u201d says Bishop. \u201cI was at a point where I just didn\u2019t know anymore. I didn\u2019t even have a vision, and this amazing producer came alongside me and believed in me and pulled my voice back out and made me get back up and sing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m truly living a fairy tale. All I do on a daily basis now is get up and say thank-you, Jesus, that this is all going on, and show me how to show up today. \u201cDreams are lifetime visions,\u201d Bishop says wisely. \u201cAnd life is valleys and mountains. And if you can accept that, you\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s only a matter of time until Hollywood snaps up the story of how singer-songwriter Bonnie Bishop connected with Dave Cobb, one of the hottest producers in the business, to unlock her inner soul singer and record the best album of her career: \u201cAin\u2019t Who I Was\u201d. Even though Bishop can barely believe it herself, … Continue reading Bonnie Bishop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13844,"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13838\/revisions\/13844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al-ba.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}