Experiences in life lead to the best songwriters, because they have the stories to tell.
Carrie Brockwell started collecting hers before she could legally drive.
Chris Ramos of Sons of Lions chatted with her for The Country Note, and shut the front door — this girl has been going. Chesterfield, Virginia. Dad and uncle in a band in the garage, Eagles to Sugarland, a little kid in the doorway thinking I want to be like them. Title role in Annie at 11. Lights on her face. Crowd. Tomorrow. That was the click.
COVID took the theater stage away, so she picked up her dad’s guitar and wrote her first song. First EP, Impressions, independently at 15. Josie Music Association EP of the Year. Then Austin. Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, Lionel Richie. Three yeses. Golden ticket to Hollywood. American Idol did not have to make her a finalist to make the path obvious.
Nashville debut at 16. Opry House for the Josie Awards. Sold-out benefit at the Jimmy Dean Theater, ten grand raised. Second EP, Dear Nashville, Female/Country Album of the Year. WSM. Bluebird Café with Victoria Shaw. Song Suffragettes. MusicRow calling her a heart-in-throat vocalist startlingly accomplished for a teen. Ashley McBryde shoutout. Country Vocalist of the Year in 2025. Headlined the Nashville Walk to End Alzheimer’s. SongHouse artist now, next to names like Emmy Russell.
She is a Belmont sophomore in music business, still writing, still gigging, still going home to play with the Richmond Symphony when the calendar says so. Southern rock and country with ’70s blood in it — Carole King, Jackson Browne, James Taylor on one shoulder, Carrie Underwood and Miranda on the other.
The record is That’s Real. Out 2026. Growth, heartbreak, healing, the part where you stop performing a version of yourself. “Here I Go Again.” “I’d Love Not To,” written in a studio hallway waiting on Luke Combs’s vocal booth, ninety minutes, Merlin dulcimer and a note in her phone. “Find a Way” with Grammy-nominated Christian Stalnecker. “Things Are Getting Good.” “Dizzy.” All of it aiming at the same thing she said out loud: she wants people to feel seen.
Saaweeet. That’ll preach.
Find her at carriebrockwellmusic.com and on the socials as Carrie Brockwell.
This is TCN Spotlight Series. A different artist every day. Pour something, watch the video, then come read the story.
Watch Chris Ramos chat with Carrie Brockwell for The Country Note here: https://youtu.be/W8IVxl6rlhM
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