Nashville Singer/Songwriter Jasmin Bade Reflects on Quarantining in Her Native Australia

Growing up in Melbourne. Read you knew at the age of 6 that you wanted to move to Nashville. Which artists and/or songs inspired this decision?

When I was six years old at a family Christmas, I heard Kasey Chambers’ album “The Captain” for the first time. I fell in love with it and became obsessed. I listened to her non-stop, as well as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Keith Urban and The Dixie Chicks. I found out that they all went to Nashville and they’d all sing about it and Tennessee. So I decided that’s where I had to go!

Midnight writing. Any new songs about the pandemic and how it has affected people all over the world?

Earlier on in the pandemic, I wrote with a close friend and co-writer of mine, Dana Perdue, about ‘the other side’. We’d both thought about how many of us had people we couldn’t see or be with anymore due to current circumstances resulting in us being separated, but how we knew there was light…