Aubrie Sellers

This week on the show, we catch up with a rising star in boundary-bending country and take-no-prisoners rock n roll - Aubrie Sellers.
What have you been doing since the pandemic hit in late February? Somehow Aubrie has managed to release both a striking new LP of twisty guitar-drenched originals in Far From Home (collaborating with her roots rock heroes like Steve Earle) while also pushing herself to make a EP of beloved covers in the aptly titled World On Fire. In rejuvenating a faded favorite like Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” she takes a song we all thought we knew and twists it around until it seems like a poisonous reverb-zapped revelation that just arrived this week out of nowhere.
Aubrie was prepared to make music earlier than most. Often not going to traditional schools, she grew up doing her homework on tour buses, hanging out in green rooms and getting her feet wet on stages in Nashville’s tight-knit country community; you might know her mom as twangy-pop icon Lee Ann Womack, and her dad Jason Sellers had a few chart toppers of his own, writing for folks like Kenny Chesney and playing in Ricky Skaggs' touring band.
Sellers made her major label debut in 2016 with the more straight-ahead but tightly crafted New City Blues, and earlier sang on a compilation record with the late Ralph Stanley. But at only 27, Aubrie feels and sounds like an old soul who is less interested in climbing the current country charts with a slick radio hit about trucks, backyard parties and ex-boyfriends, than mining thornier material like her history of anxiety and stage-fright, while harnessing the punky poet outlaw energy that more cerebral songwriters like Steve Earle and Lucinda Williams have become known for. And people are indeed taking notice, as Sellers’ scorching duet with Earle, “My Love Will Not Change,” was recently nominated for the Americana Music Association's Song of the Year.
Stick around to the end of the episode to hear an acoustic live-from-home rendition of her tune “Far From Home.”
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