Jill Andrews with Ali Sperry
From her early days with The Everybodyfields to her acclaimed solo career and her collaboration Hush Kids, co founded with Nashville songwriter and producer Peter Groenwald, Andrews has spent nearly two decades crafting irresistibly melodic, genre bending music that continues to evolve. Her songs are anchored by emotional honesty and shaped by a wide range of influences, from Joni Mitchell, Diana Ross, and The Beatles to contemporary voices like Gregory Alan Isakov and St. Vincent.
Her music has become the soundtrack to some of television’s most beloved series, including Grey’s Anatomy, This Is Us, Nashville, and Wynonna Earp, for which she composed the theme song. Praised by American Songwriter for her beautifully crafted work and by Paste Magazine as one of today’s strongest female songwriters, Andrews delivers performances that are both intimate and powerful.
Join us for a special Thursday night of live music, wine, and dining in our warm and inviting Chicago venue. Reserve your seats now and experience Jill Andrews up close.
Nashville’s own Ali Sperry is a singer, songwriter, yoga teacher, transcendental meditationist and now… mother. Her journey to the joy of motherhood was especially hard fought and fraught with pain, grief, and spiritual exhaustion.
To those of us who have known and felt Ali’s clear eyed and incisive song writing and singing, it comes as no surprise that she does not shy away from any of those existential flash points on her new EP, When I Was a Mother and Other Songs
That Sperry, the living embodiment of “If you know you know,” even in Nashville’s thick matrix of low key master song crafters, manages to keep her lens steady when turned directly on the hardest nights of the soul, offers an odd kind of solace to the listener. Joy, Grief, Hope Trauma, are treated with the same anti-operatic clarity, and she sings her truths with the kind of crystalline under-singing that is her signature.
When I Was A Mother was produced by Sperry’s husband and life-collaborator Jamie Dick at Joy Carnival —- a studio built onto the back of their house during the pandemic. Even before the studio’s creation, Dick Manor was a social hub for East Nashville’s finest musicians, so it's not surprising that many turn up again on the EP, lured by the prospect of maybe cutting a tune, but almost certainly sharing a bottle and a gang of laughs… the kind of laid back effortless musical connection that feels like a bygone dream of a lost Nashville.
No one will accuse Sperry of being a furious careerist - it’s not in her genes - or her upbringing as the daughter of Iowa’s deep welled TM community. Her many cheerleaders do coax her out on the road though not as much as any of us would like — and when they do, she remembers how much she loves it, and why she does it. So rest assured, there will be tour dates coming in 2026.
In the meantime, you may have to come to Nashville and seek out this healer in her environs - on a yoga mat, or in a low lit bar, trading songs with her fellow song catchers and senders. She doesn’t dwell on the differences; we get our meditation and medicine where we can
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