Ashton Shepherd

Sounds So Good

Sounds So Good is Ashton Shepherd's debut album.

Singing songs she wrote about ditching a stale marriage ("Takin’ Off This Pain"), shaking off a suffocating domestic existence ("I Ain’t Dead Yet"), and getting drunk to blur the sight of an old love in a bar ("Old Memory"), Shepherd follows the tradition of country women from Wanda Jackson to Tanya Tucker to Dolly Parton in knowing in her bones what the future can hold for women who don’t stand up for themselves.

But far from being a fight-for-your-right-to-party affirmation album, Sounds So Good is a big, juicy commercial album. Right now, Shepherd’s got the most consistent, go-for-broke, the-hell-with-you country album out there.