via Ameila Day
There’s a small city about an hour south of Seattle that calls itself the “Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World.” It’s called Sumner, Washington, and it’s where Amelia Day grew up. On a recent episode of The Load Out Music Podcast, we sat down with the singer-songwriter — now based in Nashville — to trace the arc from that small-town upbringing to a career that’s rapidly gaining momentum, driven by over 313,000 monthly Spotify listeners and a new EP that bares her soul.
A Small Town, a Big Piano, and a Lot of Angst
Day’s entry into music was organic, almost inevitable. Her parents, both casual piano players, kept an upright in the family home, and a young Amelia was transfixed by the sounds they’d coax out of it. By age four or five, she was asking for lessons of her own. It wasn’t long before she was writing original compositions.
“In middle school, I started songwriting for the first time,” she told us. “I did little compositions in elementary school, but started actually songwriting the way that I do now in middle school. Lots of angst and emotions to get out.”…