Image Courtesy Blu Sanders/ShoreFireYou know Angaleena Presley as the brunette in Pistol Annies, the band she formed in 2011 with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe. Now, Angaleena is stepping out with her debut album, American Middle Class, in stores now. As she did with the Annies, Angaleena is brutally honest in the lyrics of her new songs. “Pain Pills” takes on the epidemic of prescription medicine abuse in her native Kentucky while “Life of the Party” details the effects of getting drunk night after night. “Knocked Up” gives a look at the situation surrounding Angaleena’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Angaleena tells ABC News Radio, “You know, my mom doesn’t like me telling all this, but God wants me to. So, I just have to tell it. But it’s just growing up, and sometimes you really have to grow up ’cause you see two little blue lines staring at you in the face.”
If you’re thinking this all sounds like the exact opposite of “bro country,” you’re right. That doesn’t mean Angaleena has a beef with all the guys dominating country radio with songs about about trucks, girls in short-shorts and binge drinking.
She explains, “It doesn’t make me mad because we’re all singing about the same thing. We’re all singing about the party. It’s just some of us are singing about the party, and some of us are singing about the next day when you wake up pregnant in a pool of your own vomit.”
Angaleena performed the title track from American Middle Class on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman earlier this week. While critics are raving about her new music, Angaleena knows it’s not always easy to get people to pay attention to your music no matter how good it is.
She adds, “I’m just gonna keep writing these songs and just hoping that they find their way.”
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