How can people find your music? For awhile they couldn’t, 🤣 but I am really excited to say they can listen on all major streaming platforms under HASTING. If you are really brave you can check out my social media platforms and hear stuff I am working on or follow my adventures in Nashville.
What is your current single and/or album? I just released “One Man’s Trash” which is a single…It’s the beginning of a project I’ve wanted to create for a long time so I am just living my best life right now.
What was a typical Thanksgiving meal look like for your family? We usually go to both sets of grandparents and hang out with my cousins. One side of the family is your traditional turkey, stuffing, and whatever that red goo is. The other side of my family…gets Lee’s Famous Recipe (it’s like a midwest KFC) and brings it back to the farm. Things have changed a lot the past few years so we are figuring out a new normal.
What were your Thanksgiving traditions when you were younger? Oh wow I really have no idea. Depends on what age. If we were super young, it was probably enjoy the farm and having days off school. If was just time with family and a lot of food. Now it you’re talking college, ya know everyone comes back home, we go to our little bar in town the night before Thanksgiving, and then my brother and I (we are Irish twins so our lives were sort of in tandem until adulthood) would act not hungover the whole day and then go back out that night. Ohio State is not for faint of heart those two days. Our family has always done Christmas so big that it’s hard to remember Thanksgivings sometimes. Christmas with my family is just really special, so I’ve probably been zooming through Thanksgivings for years and not even realizing it!
How has your Thanksgiving celebration changed since you have became an adult? Every celebration and holiday is sort of hard since losing my Dad. Sometimes when I am traveling from Nashville to Ohio during the holidays, there will be little moments where I will think I am going back to my beautiful mom and amazing dad on our beautiful farm…and my brother and his wife will be there…I’ll bring another boyfriend that will ruin the family pics because he wont make it into the new year…🤷♀️… we’ll all laugh and stay the night at my parents. We are all really close and holidays are just the best with my family. Since I live in Nashville, I kind of cheat because they sort of live in the loss and deal with it daily, but I can avoid it until my quarterly trips home. So it’s bittersweet, but it just so happens that after the loss, I got a niece and now a nephew. I can’t really talk about them without crying because they are the most amazing love I’ve ever known. They made my grinch heart grow the minute they came into the world 😍We tell them about him, their grandpa and we do Christmas really big.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving Day memory? Probably waking up at Ohio State…(ok, maybe I should give some context…my brother and I attended school there so we were both living in Columbus). I didn’t just wake up there…🤣🤷♀️😳🫢 Anyway, I went to get in my car to make the hour journey to the farm for family activities and I couldn’t find my keys. Losing my keys is the only constant in my life, btw. I realized they were at a bar that we had been at that night. My brother had already left so I had to wait on his roommate who was the bartender to let me in to get them…my whole family still gives me a hard time for that day and it still makes me laugh. 😆
What are you most thankful for this year? I am thankful for my mom, brother, SIL, niece, nephew, and the boy that has survived two years of me. I am thankful for grace Nashville has shown me and the belief of the team around me. I am thankful that my best friend and everyone around me loves me enough to not have let me quit music when I’ve had this project living in me for so long. This year is really special. My whole life people have told me I’m “too much” and I’ve had people tell me when it comes to country music, I should be careful that I don’t brand myself into a corner by being “the funny girl” because it would make me look like a one dimensional writer. So I slowly lived with more and more fear to create. I began to think that to be a great artist you had to suffer. So I begged for the rain and then was angry when it came. I love country music. I live for it so this year I’m thankful for learning to live without shame. I’m just a weird litte redneck making funny music. It doesn’t always have to be so serious. I mean, try to listen to Chattahoochi and have a bad time. You can’t. I wanna make music like that. Plus, anyone that’s paying attention knows the funny girl in the room is probably the saddest one. I am thankful for this coming year.