TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 8月9日 05時19分

Maggie Chapman (@magsduvalmusic), Heather Morgan (@heathereleven) and @caitlynsmith are friends first and collaborators second. Each has established herself as a creative force. Each has recorded #music of her own, whether out now or forthcoming. Their artistic gifts are undeniable, yet their paths to success in a town and an industry run by men, like so many of their peers’, have been riddled with obstacles. “#Nashville has been a boy’s club for a really long time,” Chapman says. “It’s just straight-up harder for women,” Smith adds. As a 16-year-old, Chapman was hired into writing rooms with men decades older than her and instructed to spill her secrets. Smith, photographed here, has felt pressure to bar hop with producers. Morgan has been banned from tour busses, where so much writing takes place, because of strict “no girls allowed” rules imposed by band members or their wives. Women still get only a fraction of #countrymusic radio time. Four years ago, after a showcase where Smith performed, they got to talking about how the talent of their girlfriends in town so mismatched the opportunities they received. A sound operator made a passing suggestion that they bring their friends to perform in a “girls’ night,” and the seasonal concert series @thegirlsofnashville was born. Four times a year, the trio curates a show where newcomers share the stage with songwriting idols like @spaceykacey, @ミシェル・ブランチ and Liz Rose, a co-writer behind many of @テイラー・スウィフト’s hits. The concerts—and the network they’ve fostered—allow the women to make their own luck. “It’s fun to kind of show off our friends, too,” Morgan says, "and be like, ‘Oh, you think you’ve seen it all? Get ready.” Chapman, Morgan and Smith are just some of the extraordinary women TIME is visiting on a cross-country road trip this summer. Read more at TIME.com/women-across-america. #TIMEroadtrip Photograph by @dina_litovsky—@reduxpictures for TIME

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