Today we feature a young singer and songwriter who takes her position as a second generation country performer as a challenge, not as a right. An artist who prefers to "make friction" with her music, because "if you're not pushing buttons...it's probably been done before."

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The last thing Aubrie Sellers wants to do is things that have been done before. She prefers not to follow in the footsteps of her mother, country superstar Lee Ann Womack, instead choosing to blaze her own trail in a town with few trails left to burn. When asked why she chooses to simply not walk through the doors her mother could open for her, Sellers responds “I prefer to create friction, because if you’re not pushing buttons, you’re just making something pleasant, it’s probably been done before... and it’s not making anyone feel anything.”

For the 24-year singer and songwriter it's all about the feelings. Whether it be making her audience feel every word in her songs or the passion she puts into every line, she is all about going deeper into the feelings. “I’d rather my music be polarizing than everyone like it, because they rarely do. I think passion is a lot deeper than that. I want to go deeper, and be honest that life isn’t just some party and going out.”

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In a world of reality stars who are famous for nothing and taking short-cuts to the top, Sellers isn't buying into it. “I tell people there’s not a lot of happy songs,” the Texas/Nashville hybrid cautions. “But they’re not unhappy songs, either. It’s life... the way it is, and what’s wrong with that?”

Trying to pin a label on Sellers is difficult, if not dangerous. There's a definite drawl in her voice, paying tribute to her Texas and Nashville upbringing. But its also obvious she loves pounding drums and screaming telecasters, bringing an immediacy and urgency to her music. Oh, and don't forget the effect that being raised by a progressive country artist mother and top session player and songwriter father has on a girl (her father is Jason Sellers, who has played with Ricky Skaggs and other artists as well as putting out a few solo albums). Sellers points to influences as varied as blues legend Robert Johnson, Dwight Yoakam and progressive artist Ryan Adams as influences on her music.

2016 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival - Day 1
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Sellers points to growing up on tour with her mother as a positive influence in her life. “The way I grew up, I look at certain situations differently, see how motivations change. I didn’t love seeing how people behaved when my Mom was in a room and how they behaved when she wasn’t but it gave me perspective.” It also taught her the importance of holding the music above everything else. Though she had been writing as long as she could remember, Sellers says she didn't consider herself a songwriter until she started to pull things together for her debut album, New City Blues. "When you’ve been playing your whole life, you want to know the songs are as true as you can make them. Who’s truer to my life than me?”

2016 Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 29, 2016 in Indio, California.
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Putting together her debut album, Aubrie stayed true to her life, her influences and to her second generation status. The album's lead single is in our spotlight today. Aubrie Sellers and "Sit Here And Cry" is today's Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.

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