Now I can walk around and people won’t recognize me, as long as I keep my hair pulled up.”įredericks will still be in acoustic mode, doing mainly his own songs, when he hits City Winery on Sunday, doing two shows in the Haymarket Lounge - the late show is sold out, but tickets are available at this writing for the early show.Īcoustic music also harks back to Fredericks’ pre-“Voice” roots. But I mostly enjoyed it because people were genuine, they really liked what I did. The attention has died down a little bit in the beginning I was really shy about it and I didn’t want to be ‘on’ all the time. After ‘The Voice’ I was very glad that I could get back to my house and be separated from that kind of chaos. And I don’t like L.A., so I like being down to earth and staying close to my family. “I’m more of the nighttime chore person, my dad is the one getting up in the morning,” he said by phone this week. And he says he wrote the songs between doing chores on his family’s farm in Fultonville, N.Y. That’s been “The Voice” winner Sawyer Fredericks’ life for the past few years, and he says that his music is better because of it.įredericks won the NBC-TV series’ eighth season in 2015 at 16, he was the series’ youngest winner and one of its more popular performers making his debut with the world-weary folk song “Man of Constant Sorrow.” The music he’s making now has zero Hollywood connection his latest album “Hide Your Ghost” is acoustic and traditionally based.
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“The Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker sound – I love that music and I’m trying to incorporate that within my own style and bring back that classic sound.”ĭespite the postponements and cancellations, Shepherd isn’t taking it easy: Her new album will be released soon and she is working on a Christmas album as well.Īnd still having a blast while she’s at it: “Oh, it’s so much fun.Not many people would choose to go from TV stardom to cleaning up after cows and pigs. “I’m wanting to bring the classic sound and style – I’m wanting to incorporate that in my own version,” she said. Shepherd’s love for the classic-style of country comes through in her songs – her vintage sound is almost a genre all its own within country music. But as an artist, growing and getting better every day, yes, I do grow.” I haven’t changed because I love that I love the classic country music. “So, of course, music changes as the years and days go by. “Every time I practice, I think my band and I get better together,” she said. As she gets older and works at her craft, she said her music continues to evolve. When Shepherd won “The Voice” – a singing competition where contestants are chosen by judges from a “blind” audition and then get to train with one of the judges (in Shepherd’s case, it was singer Kelly Clarkson) – it was 2018 and she was a 16-year-old high school junior. Shepherd said that she actually got a lot of work done during the shutdown – she and her band performed a virtual concert and she filmed a video for her song “The Letter,” (try to watch it without getting a lump in your throat), which is a single off her upcoming album. Once we got home, that’s when everything shut down.” “On our way back, we were like, ‘We don’t have any toilet paper at home and everyone’s taking all the toilet paper at the stores!’ So we had to stop in different states and find some.
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“We ended up leaving – I was supposed to be filming a movie and they canceled that because of coronavirus, and so my family and I left Florida early and started heading back,” she said.
They found they had to make a few pit stops for essentials on the way back to New Mexico. When the pandemic really started taking off, the family packed up to head home to Farmington. When the coronavirus first started to become a thing in the Four Corners, the Shepherd family was celebrating Chevel’s father’s birthday in Florida.
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