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It’s not just a sound byte when they say country music is a family. I don’t have a stylist. But what I do have is one fierce @karenfairchild who found this dress for me. And one heavenly @katecopperman who came up with the cape. One fabulous @cassiemkelley who took me shoe & jewelry shopping. And a text thread with my ever steady COO of all things honest, @betsyboyerjones, to tell me if I’m being myself or not. I’ve still not won a @cma - but I have most definitely won at sisterhood. ✨✨✨***tries to think of clever hashtag about superheroes actually wearing capes ••• 📸: @johnshearer @gettyimages
This is a story of a girl who wasn’t gonna make it on time in the insane weather & traffic. So she took off her cape - stuffed it inside her husband’s suit jacket - hopped out of the car - ran through a downpour rain, jumping puddles in all white & Valentino’s - somehow dropped her backstage credentials somewhere on the red carpet - and was using a borrowed steamer in a random bathroom with just 10 mins to spare before showtime. All in the name of country music, baby. • • • 📸: @katiekauss 💇🏼‍♀️: @carissa_toney 💄: @makeupbyaubreyjones 👗: @dionlee 👠: @maisonvalentino 👛: @rafenewyork 💎: @oscardelarenta 📀: @danandshay ☂️: @rodneylama ⛈: @mothernature 🏋🏼‍♀️: @studio_novo 🥩: @kayneprime 🎟: @cma 🙏🏼: @nicatnitemusic
I was so busy having a good time I forgot to walk the photo line. But I did end up eating leftover enchiladas in bed with this guy at 2am, so clearly I’ve got my priorities straight. [ B M I ❤️ U ] 📸: @gettyimages @johnshearer
If you think the @opry was the highlight of Great Grandma & Great Aunt Shirley’s weekend — you’d be wrong. Watch out @tarrynfeldman, she’s gunnin for your job. 💄⚡️💋👑🎨💎#glamsquad
11.9.18 // WHY I DID IT — Because a lifetime is a limited resource. And when you’re 90 years old — you don’t have the luxury of waiting til your granddaughter sits around and waits for someday to say yes. And when you’re 90 years old — you don’t have the guarantee that an airplane ride to Nashville to hear your name spoken on the Opry stage will always be on the table. And when you’re 90 years old — you deserve to be shown the full circle of your choice to move away from where you were born and raised in Tennessee- to build a family in Kansas. Only to see how 50 grandkids later, one of them would end up back having more babies in Tennessee, if not for the family you made. And when you’re 90 years old — it’s important to be reminded that almost 30 years ago your granddaughter sat on the floor in your living room - while grandpa told her if she was gonna play piano, she needed to make up her OWN songs. So that’s why. Happy 90th. #GALYON
11.9.18 // WHAT I LEARNED — How clever a story this old church pianist has been given, to have been placed at yet another piano in another kind of church. • That when someone gets on a plane, or takes the time to make glasses with your name on them, or leaves their sick kiddo with a babysitter, or wrangles tickets to a sold out show - that it is those that show up for you that are worth showing off. • That i have a strong inner dialogue when it comes to singing that screams “you are not enough” - and that that voice can readily be silenced by walking straight onto a stage and up to a microphone. • That I have now long recognized a pattern in my life where I am repeatedly lead to uncharted territory. And how every time I get up to the edge of the thing that could bring pain or embarrassment from critics - that that is where I often feel closest to Heaven. • And most importantly, that there are many roads to take when you get to the top of a mountain. The one that says “I told you so”. Or the ones that say “this won’t last” & “you’ll never be here again”. But it is the road of gratitude that has never betrayed me. And last night, it found me on a stage I was made to be afraid of — and made to be brave for.
11.9.18 // THE THINGS I WANT TO REMEMBER- having champagne for lunch with my grandma. being reduced to nervous tears around 3pm. how many Opry staff members it took to coordinate getting my parents flowers to me. the way the bobby pins cut into my head as they held my hair back. how my body felt like ice like it does when it’s terrified. the muffled “nicolle galyon to the stage in 5” through the dressing room speaker. the way Jeannie Sealey cutely mispronounced my last name. wondering if my tape was holding my dress up right - but not wanting to look down - as I introduced Tequila. the startling voices that sang back to me from line one. wiping the tears of black eyeshadow off the back of my hand as they kept clapping and stood. the chill in the air as i pulled a rolling suitcase in one hand and carried a bouquet in the other down Lower Broadway at midnight to meet my tribe for a toast. then toasting with glasses that said Grand Ole Nicolle as the Palm management turned the lights on. turning a corner at 1am to see that my car was locked in a parking garage. it was scary. it was exhilarating. it was important. it was MINE. I played the Grand Ole Opry. [💄:tarrynfeldman | 📸: @darlingjulietphoto]
Put my best ponytail forward last night at the CMA Nominees Dinner. Not even the mentalist could tell me what the hell I’m wearing next week. 🔮 #tequila
Yesterday I let the kids take 10 shots each with my camera. I think they captured each other perfectly. ***secures their instagram handles for 2032. #chord
love hug: (adj. n) syn: — choke hold // origin: little brother (see also: #chord)
allies. competitors. co-conspirators. counterparts. enemies. antagonists. roommates. reciprocals. punching bags. confidants. partners. safety nets. SIBLINGS.
The first year they’re all too old for this, a little part of me will die. #amilliondreams
I won’t let them break me down to dust. #thegreatesthalloween2018
Runaway to a world that we design. #thegreatesthalloween2018
no one can say what we get to be. #thegreatesthalloween2018
When i get asked to do new things, I do this thing where I say YES. And then I get really nervous, but do it anyway. — OPRY DEBUT: NOV 9. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️