by admin | Jun 17, 2024 | Hailey Whitters
Question: Do you have any traditions with the band?
Hailey Whitters: “My band and I have a road tradition, so it’s called The Rule of the fishbowl. And if we ever stumble on a bar on the road and the bar serves fish bowls, we have to have them. Everyone in the band has to have a fish bowl. It’s a rule any time. So we do that. We got pretty, pretty lit in Columbus. I think one fish bowl turned into three, and we were all feeling really, really bad the next day. Luckily, it was an off day. We weren’t playing a show, but, the rule of fishbowl, man. It bites.”
by admin | Jun 3, 2024 | Hailey Whitters
Question: Tell me about growing up..
Hailey Whitters: “I grew up in a cornfield in the middle of Iowa. We have lots of corn in Iowa. In fact, my fans have named me the corn Queen, which I think is hilarious and absolutely love. I’m proud to be their corn queen, but I grew up in a small town and, you know, everybody knew everybody. Everybody had everybody’s back. And I’m so grateful to have grown up that way. You know, maybe a little bit slower. A country kid, for sure. But to be able to grow up that way, I think, is so much a part of the reason of who I am today and why I am the way that I am.”
by admin | May 27, 2024 | Hailey Whitters
Question: What do you do in your free time?
Hailey Whitters: “In my free time, I like to hang out with my dogs. I have two pups, an Aussie shepherd named Raleigh and a blue tick beagle named Josephus, and I like to take them to the dog park. We like to go hiking and stuff, but really just sit in my backyard in a lawn chair, crack cold beer, hang with my pups.”
by admin | May 18, 2024 | Hailey Whitters
Question: Tell me about your family
Hailey Whitters: “I have a big family. I am the oldest of six. Mom and dad one of nine. My grandpa is one of 15, so I literally had to like bust out the family tree coming home with a boyfriend to make sure we weren’t related. Everybody knew my family. I guess we have quite a reputation. Good and bad, a little bit, but, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I mean, I grew up having more cousins and friends, and there was always something going on. There’s such a beautiful chaos that goes with having a big family.”
by admin | May 5, 2024 | Hailey Whitters
Question: How did you pick “I’m In Love” on the EP?
Hailey Whitters: “I did not write “I’m in Love”. Nicole Galligan, Cameron Bedell, and Lee Miller wrote I’m in love. And, I was in Nashville at my record label, Big Loud, and we were having a pitch meeting. We were starting to find songs for the next record, and so a bunch of publishers were coming in and playing us songs. You know, it’s kind of like shopping. You get to like, just sit there and pick out what you like and pick out, you know, what you want to sing about. And, Nicole was in the room with me, obviously, because she’s part of my label. And, I remember, Cameron Bechdel’s publisher had come in the room, and he was just kind of sidebar with Nicole small talking, you know, hey, I love that song that you and Cameron and Lee wrote the other day. And Nicole was like, oh, thanks. And I was like, wait, what song did you write yesterday? Like, let’s hear it. And, they just played it… They played the work tape. And on the spot, me and my producer Jake Gear, we were like, we ought to record that. So it just felt so my language. So something I would say, and I just, I loved pun intended. I loved the song from first Listen.”
