Waldrup released her first full length album Justified on July 13th. She wrote or co-wrote 9 of the 11 tracks with Nashville friends and fellow songwriters including Julia Cole, Anthony Smith, Donnie Skaggs, Ed Hill, Brian Kolb and others. The album features title track "Justified," that Music Row magazine calls "a soul-rock tune that showcases potent, wailing and penetrating vocalist with moxie and fire," the catchy party anthem "What Goes On In This Bar (Stays In This Bar)," Waldrup's viral version of "I Hope You Dance," the Lori McKenna penned love song "Sometimes He Does" and the vibey and sultry "Slow and Easy."
Throwback to
November 2016, Waldrup launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund a new project that award-winning producer Garth Fundis agreed to produce. The life of the campaign was a roller coaster ride, with very low lows and even higher highs for independent artist Waldrup. During the campaign, she heard a preacher say "the moment you take the burden off of yourself to be important is the moment you start living your true potential," and she committed to living that mindset.
Shortly after, by request from a 16 year old fan, Waldrup recorded an unedited, one-take cover of
Lee Ann Womack's massive hit "I Hope You Dance" in her living room. After sending it to that fan, she also shared the video with her friends at lifestyle brand Country Rebel. They were blown away by the heartfelt cover and posted it immediately on their socials. After millions of views and thousands of interactions on social media, her Indiegogo campaign was over 100% funded and she began recording that dream album. To date, the video has been viewed over 28 million times.
Listen to Justified
here.
Check out "behind the scenes" from the album
here.
Track Listing:
Colorado Kiss - Julia Cole, Karen Waldrup
Nobody's
Running Away - Ed Hill, Donnie Skaggs,
Karen Waldrup
Parker Presley - Parker Pressley, Karen Waldrup
Justified - Brian Kolb, Karen Waldrup
Slow & Easy - Anthony Smith, Karen Waldrup
What Goes On In This Bar (Stays In This Bar) - Ed Hill, Donnie Skaggs, Karen Waldrup
Sometimes He Does -
Lori McKenna
Praying For My Cowboy - Julia Cole,
Karen Waldrup
Warm In Your
Sunshine - Brett Jones,
Karen Waldrup
Cool Hat - Ed Hill, Donnie Skaggs, Karen Waldrup
I Hope You Dance - Tia Sellers,
Mark Sanders
About
Karen Waldrup
New
Orleans native
Karen Waldrup is a triple threat musician, songwriter and recording artist known for her thrilling performances and nostalgically new style of country music.
Waldrup has spent the last few years touring the world performing thousands of shows everywhere from Memphis, TN to Dublin, Ireland and is now a true viral sensation with her social media videos gaining mass appeal and more than 180 million views. Waldrup is the subject of "Waldrup Wednesdays," the hugely popular weekly video series on Country Rebel's Facebook page.
Waldrup recently won four Nashville
Industry Music Awards (NIMA) for Artist of the Year, Song of the Year for "Warm in Your Sunshine," Best Live Country Performer and Best Country Solo Artist Female. In 2017, she won 3 NIMA awards for Best Live Country Performer, Best Video and Best Solo Female Country Artist and she also landed an original song in the motion picture 'Scales:
Mermaids are Real'. The video for her 2016 Summer song "I Got That Kind of Time" spent 5 weeks at #1 and 12 weeks in the top 5 on CMT. Her "Trashy Crashed the Party" video stayed in the top 3 for 5 weeks straight.
Waldrup appeared on Bravo TV's Platinum Hit with hosts Jewel & Kara Diaguardi, and had music featured on Bravo TV's reality series My Fab 40. She was a Nashville Rising Star finalist in 2015 and was previously named a GAC Top 25 Songwriter. Karen has been featured on NASCAR ESPN LIVE, the NFL Experience Superbowl XLVII and hundreds of other outlets world wide.
Waldrup's new album Justified is available everywhere now.
