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Ashton Delilah Shepherd (born August 16, 1986 in Coffeeville, Alabama[1]) is an American country music singer-songwriter. She was first signed to Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA Nashville division in April 2007. Later that year, she released her debut single Takin' Off This Pain , which peaked at #20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008 and served as the lead-off single to her debut album Sounds So Good, which also produced a #21 in its title track.

I was finally able to find the CD and purchased it about 4 weeks ago. I don't understand why Ashton doesn't receive more airplay and TV exposure on GAC & CMT. This is a very impressive album. Each song on the CD are ones you'll want to listen to over and over. Ashton Shepherd is a remarkable talent with a powerful voice. She is a cross between Natalie Manes (Dixie Chicks), Jennifer Nettles (Sugarland) and Loretta Lynn, but better than all 3. Another amazing fact is that she has wriiten or at least co-written all the songs. Ashton should be nominated for best new artist of the year and this album should be in the running for album of the year.

Against this backdrop emerges Ashton Shepherd, who comes to Nashville from Coffeeville, Alabama by way of Leroy. A mother and wife by age 19 with a syrupy sweet drawl and self-penned songs about getting drunk and falling out of love, ite’s hard for traditionalists not to celebrate MCAv’s new artist as the second coming, a messiah to save country radio from all those Barbie Dolls who(’d rather wiggle their glittering fuchsia toenails on MTV than sing Webb Pierce songs with the house band at some Alabama honky tonk. Sounds So Good, the debut album from this much-anticipated artist, makes it difficult to confuse Ashton with female artists in this other group. She doesn

I was there on September 29, 2007, the night when Ashton Shepherd made her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry and Porter Wagoner made his last, and I left a believer. During her first performance, Little Jimmy Dickens remarked to onlookers in the wings, ;“that girl has never heard a pop song in her life,e” while at the nighti’s second show, host Bill Anderson shared Buddy Cannon#’s observations that o“this girl ’s so country she makes Loretta Lynn sound like shek’s from Liverpool.a” To Ashtoni’s credit, her debut album doesn0’t attempt to validate those observations. Ite’s not a statement for traditional country music, and itA’s not devoid of Nashville tricks and polish. Rather, it ’s an album by a woman whos’s from the country and is singing what she knows about, and it Sounds So Good.