Angaleena Presley
{{short description|American country music singer-songwriter (born 1976)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Angaleena Presley
| image = File:Angaleena Presley.jpg
| caption = Presley in 2011
| birth_name = Angaleena Loletta McCoy Presley
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1976|9|1}}{{cite web|url=http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/12252?c=search&first=&last=Presley&spelling=Exact&8_year=&8_month=9&8_day=1&4=&9=&11=&SubmitSearch.x=43&SubmitSearch.y=12|title=Free Family Tree, Genealogy and Family History – MyHeritage|publisher=Familytreelegends.com|accessdate=December 24, 2014}}
| birth_place = Beauty, Kentucky, U.S.
| origin = Martin County, Kentucky, U.S.
| alias =
| instrument = Vocals, guitar
| genre = Country
| occupation = Singer, songwriter
| years_active = 2011–present
| label = Columbia Nashville, RCA Records Nashville, Slate Creek Records
| current_member_of = Pistol Annies
| website = {{URL|http://www.PistolAnnies.com/}}
{{URL|www.angaleenapresley.com/}}
}}
Angaleena Loletta McCoy Presley{{cite web|url=http://www.lyrics.net/lyric/29142265|title=Loved by a Workin' Man Lyrics|publisher=Lyrics.net|accessdate=December 24, 2014}} (born September 1, 1976) is an American country music singer-songwriter. She is a member of the country trio Pistol Annies, which was formed in 2011 with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe, and has released two solo albums, American Middle Class (2014) and Wrangled (2017).{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/person/angaleena-presley|title=Angaleena Presley Profile|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=May 4, 2017}}
Career
In 2000, Presley moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she landed a publishing deal nine months later. Through her publisher she met Ashley Monroe, who later brought Presley's music to the attention of her friend Miranda Lambert. The three artists began working together writing songs, which would later become Pistol Annies' debut album Hell on Heels, released on August 23, 2011. The group spent much of the next two years touring North America and writing songs for their follow-up album. On May 7, 2013, Pistol Annies released their second album Annie Up. On June 17, 2013, the RIAA announced that the album and single for Hell on Heels had both sold in excess of 500,000 copies, giving Pistol Annies their first Gold Record. In 2014 Presley released her solo album American Middle Class, co-produced with her husband Jordan Powell.{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6281684/angaleena-presley-american-middle-class-review|title=Album Review: Pistol Annies' Angaleena Presley's 'American Middle Class' a Strong, Focused Debut|magazine=Billboard|access-date=March 1, 2017}} In 2017, Presley released her second solo album, Wrangled.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Wrangled-Angaleena-Presley/dp/B06WP59M9T|title=Angaleena Presley – Wrangled – Amazon.com.com Music|accessdate=May 4, 2017|asin=B06WP59M9T}}
Personal life
Angaleena Presley was born in Martin County, Kentucky, and raised in Beauty, Kentucky. Her father Jimmy Presley Sr., is a retired coal miner and her mother, Cathy Presley (née McCoy), is a retired school teacher. At age 15, her father taught her how to play her first song on his guitar, "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard. She attended Sheldon Clark High School in Inez, Kentucky, and graduated in 1994 before attending college at Eastern Kentucky University. Presley started work as a songwriter in Nashville in 2002, and later wrote the song "Knocked Up" from her own personal experience of being pregnant and unmarried. She has a son, Jed, born in 2007. When the Pistol Annies were first forming in the early 2010s, Presley was going through a divorce. She insists her upbringing was not "the stark, poverty-stricken one as committed to record on the 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn. That doesn't mean the Presleys didn't struggle, however, or that the singer led a charmed life once she left Beauty."{{Cite magazine|title=Angaleena Presley Opens Up About Beer, Babies and Pistol Annie Brawls| last=Betts |first=Stephen L. |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/angaleena-presley-opens-up-about-beer-babies-and-pistol-annie-brawls-188148/amp/|magazine=Rolling Stone |date=October 15, 2014|access-date=August 13, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.lonestarmusic.com/AngaleenaPresley|title=Angaleena Presley|website=Lone Star Music|access-date=October 11, 2017}} On May 22, 2012, she married manager/producer Jordan Powell in a small ceremony in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.{{Cite web|url=http://theboot.com/angaleena-presley-married/|title=Pistol Annies' Angaleena Presley Weds Miranda Lambert's Tour Manager|website=The Boot|date=May 25, 2012 |access-date=March 1, 2017}} On August 15, 2018, Presley confirmed she was pregnant with her second child (her first with Powell) and gave birth to their daughter Joeleena in January 2019.{{cite web|url=https://people.com/parents/angaleena-presley-pregnant-expecting-second-child/|title=Pistol Annies' Angaleena Presley 'Shocked and Overjoyed' to Be Expecting Second Child at 41|website=People|accessdate=November 4, 2018}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nashcountrydaily.com/2019/01/24/angaleena-presley-husband-welcome-baby-girl-phoenix-joeleena-jean/|title=Angaleena Presley & Husband Welcome Baby Girl, Phoenix Joeleena Jean|date=January 24, 2019|website=Nash Country Daily|access-date=March 26, 2019}}
Discography
=Studio albums=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" |
| rowspan="2" style="width:12em;"| Title
! rowspan="2" style="width:20em;"| Details ! colspan="2"| Peak chart ! rowspan="2" style="width:9em;"| Sales |
|---|
| style="font-size:smaller;"
! style="width:45px;"| US Country ! style="width:45px;"| US Heat |
| scope="row"| American Middle Class
|
| 29 | 14 | |
| scope="row"| Wrangled
|
| — | 15 | |
| colspan="6" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |
=Music videos=
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |
| Year
! style="width:10em;"| Video ! Director |
|---|
| 2014
! scope="row"| "Pain Pills"{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/videos/angaleena-presley/1095592/pain-pills.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141030094820/http://www.cmt.com/videos/angaleena-presley/1095592/pain-pills.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2014|title=CMT : Videos : Angaleena Presley : Pain Pills|publisher=Country Music Television|accessdate=October 30, 2014}} | Traci Goudie |
Songwriting discography
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Artist ! Album ! Song ! Co-written with |
| 2021
|"Good Girl Down" |Wanda Jackson, Vanessa Olivarez, Jordan Breane Simpson |
| rowspan="14" | 2017
| Provoked | "You Don't Know Your Husband" |
| rowspan="13" | Angaleena Presley
| rowspan="13" | Wrangled |
| "Dreams Don't Come True" |
| "High School" |
| "Only Blood" |
| "Country"
| Michael Wayne Atha |
| "Wrangled"
| |
| "Bless My Heart"
| |
| "Outlaw"
| |
| "Mama I Tried"
| Oran Thornton |
| "Cheer Up Little Darling" |
| "Groundswell"
| Ian Fitchuk |
| "Good Girl Down" |
| "Motel Bible"
| Oran Thornton, Trevor Thornton |
| rowspan="13" | 2014
| rowspan="13" | Angaleena Presley | rowspan="13" | American Middle Class |
| "Ain't No Man"
| |
| "All I Ever Wanted"
| |
| "Grocery Store" |
| "American Middle Class"
| |
| "Dry County Blues" |
| "Pain Pills"
| |
| "Life of the Party" |
| "Knocked Up"
| Sanders |
| "Better Off Red"
| |
| "Drunk" |
| "Blessing and a Curse" |
| "Surrender" |
| rowspan="11" | 2013
| rowspan="11" | Pistol Annies | rowspan="11" | Annie Up | "I Feel A Sin Comin' On" |
| "Hush Hush"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Being Pretty Ain't Pretty"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Unhappily Married"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Loved by a Workin' Man"
| |
| "Blues, You're a Buzzkill"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Don't Talk About Him, Tina"
| Lambert |
| "Trading One Heartbreak for Another"
| Monroe |
| "Damn Thing"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Girls Like Us"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "I Hope You're the End of My Story"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| rowspan="9" | 2011
| rowspan="7" | Pistol Annies | rowspan="7" | Hell on Heels | "Hell On Heels" | Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, Angaleena Presley |
| "Lemon Drop" |
| "Housewife's Prayer"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Bad Example"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "Takin' Pills"
| Lambert, Monroe |
| "The Hunter's Wife"
| Angaleena Presley |
| "Family Feud"
| Lambert, Monroe, Presley, Blake Shelton |
| rowspan="1" | Miranda Lambert
| rowspan="1" | Four the Record | "Fastest Girl in Town" |
| rowspan="1" | Ashton Shepherd
| rowspan="1" | Where Country Grows | "Look It Up" |
| rowspan="11" | 2008
| rowspan="11" | Heidi Newfield | rowspan="11" | What Am I Waiting For | "Knocked Up" |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable" | ||||
| Year | Association | Category | Nominated Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | American Country Awards | New Artist of the Year | Pistol Annies | {{Nom}} |
| 2012 | CMT Awards | Breakthrough Video of the Year | Hell on Heels | {{Nom}} |
| 2012 | CMT Awards | Group Video of the Year | Hell on Heels | {{Nom}} |
| 2013 | CMT Awards | Group Video of the Year | Takin' Pills | {{Nom}} |
| 2016 | UK Americana Awards | International Song of the Year | American Middle Class | {{nom}} |
| 2018 | UK Americana Awards | International Artist of the Year | Artist | {{nom}} |
| 2020 | Grammy Awards | Best Country Album | Interstate Gospel (with Pistol Annies) | {{nom}} |
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130717075446/http://www.pistolannies.com/about/ Pistolannies.com]
- [http://www.kentucky.com/2013/05/19/2645455/eastern-kentuckys-angaleena-presley.html Kentucky.com]
- [http://www.theboot.com/2012/05/25/angaleena-presley-married/ Theboot.com]
- [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pistol-annies-angaleena-presley-goes-solo-20140531 Rollingstone.com]
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Category:Country musicians from Kentucky
Category:People from Martin County, Kentucky
Category:RCA Records Nashville artists
Category:Pistol Annies members
Category:American women country singers
Category:American country singer-songwriters
Category:Singer-songwriters from Kentucky
Category:21st-century American singer-songwriters