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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nGood things come to those who wait\u2014just ask Julie Roberts. After early success with 2004\u2019s hit \u201cBreak Down Here,\u201d the country singer released a couple of albums with a major label, then self-released her last project in 2011. But her latest,\u00a0Good Wine and Bad Decisions<\/i>, is a breakout. It\u2019s the first full-length album launched by famed Sun Records\u2014once home to Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash\u2014in four decades. But Roberts, 34, shrugs off any stress about picking up the Sun mantel. \u201cI felt pressure to make a record I was proud of,\u201d she says. But there\u2019s a saying: \u2018Do your best and let God do the rest.\u2019 That\u2019s where I\u2019m at.\u201d<\/p>\n
When did you begin work?<\/b><\/p>\n
In 2010, around the time my first independent record came out. I wrote nine songs, eight with Jason Collum, one of the producers. We started thinking about what I wanted this record to sound like, and the first song was \u201cGood Wine and Bad Decisions.\u201d That\u2019s why it\u2019s the first track\u2014it sets the tone for how we wanted the record to sound and feel, creatively and sonically.<\/p>\n
How did you land on Sun Records?<\/b><\/p>\n
I was working with the production company Sorted Noise on my independent records. They had been working on placing the\u00a0Sun catalog for three years. I was looking\u00a0for a new home as far as a label goes, and one of the Sorted Noise partners brought them some of the music Jason and I were working on, and they liked it. After decades, they decided they would sign a new\u00a0artist\u2014and that would be me. I went to a meeting with John Singleton, the president of Sun\u2014one of my favorite meetings ever, because at the end he said, \u201cWelcome to the Sun Records family.\u201d I had wanted to hear a sentence like that for a long\u00a0time\u2014and I never ever imagined that it\u00a0would be Sun.<\/p>\n
Were you affected by the legacy?<\/b><\/p>\n
I wanted to record a Sun song on the record\u2014they sent me like 8,000 songs on a hard drive. It\u2019s so hard to pick, because they\u2019re all great. But then John Singleton sent me an email saying, \u201cI know you\u2019re looking for songs, but I really think this one is one you will like.\u201d It was \u201cHe Made a Woman Out of Me.\u201d I knew right then I was at the right place. It just confirmed that I\u2019m where I\u2019m supposed to be\u2014and they know who they signed, artistically.<\/p>\n
You sang with Buddy Miller.<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been singing \u201cGasoline and Matches\u201d [co-written by Miller] at my shows for years\u2014it\u2019s fun to sing and my band loves it, so I knew that I would record it. Buddy is an amazing singer-songwriter-musician who I\u2019ve always loved. I asked him if he would sing on it with me, and he said yes. It made my world. After he was done he said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to use this all the way through if you don\u2019t like it. Promise, I won\u2019t be offended.\u201d I was like, \u201cAre you kidding me? I\u2019m going to use this whole thing. I love it!\u201d<\/p>\n
Where do you get ideas for songs?<\/b><\/p>\n
Often I just talk to my mom. She speaks in songs and doesn\u2019t know it. You have a conversation with her, and it\u2019s like, \u201cGosh, she just said a song title!\u201d That\u2019s what happened with \u201cOld Habit.\u201d It\u2019s about Mama. She dates this guy, but only on Saturday nights. I asked her once, \u201cAre you going out with your friend tonight?\u201d She said, \u201cNo, I think I\u2019m going to tell him I can\u2019t. He doesn\u2019t call me any other day of the week, and I just feel like we\u2019re old habit.\u201d I told her, \u201cThank you for that song title\u2014and you\u2019re right, don\u2019t go out with him tonight!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n
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