Country music stars discuss mom memories, Mother’s Day traditions, mom lessons and more…
Brett Eldredge loves his mom, and is thankful for the qualities that she passed down to him.
“My mom is the most loving lady I’ve ever met. I think the best quality she gave me was the fact that, you just be a selfless person, and love everybody, and give everything from your heart … because no one has ever done that more than my mother to me. I love you mom!”
Lauren Alaina explains how important her mom is to her life.
“I honestly would not be able to do it without my mom. I get overwhelmed sometimes, and if she wasn’t there to comfort me or tell me, ‘Look just realize what you’ve got going for you,’ I’d be up the creek. She’s got my back. My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I’d do the same for her”
Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman always wanted to be a mother, and now that she is, it’s actually brought her closer to her own mom.
“Being a mother is a lifelong dream for me. When I was a kid, that’s what I wanted to be is a mama. It took a long time. I wasn’t ever sure that I would be, but I am now, and it’s the greatest gift of my life. And as I’m a mother now, I see what my mother gave up and her sacrifices and her love and how she made us the most important thing in her life, and that’s what I strive to do for my little girl. It’s the most important job I have, and it’s the most responsibility that I have, and I try to live up to a great example that I had for my mother.”
Chris Janson shares his family’s Mother’s Day celebration tradition.
“We have a tradition that sort has rang true … we’ve been married – going on 11 years, Kelly and I, for Mother’s Day, we usually plant a new rose (bush) somewhere in a garden, or somewhere around the house. We’ve done that through all the houses that we’ve moved in and out of … and we’ve got more roses that you can count at the current house we live in. And that’s our Mother’s Day tradition. We try to do that each year … it’s important to us, and it’s actually really cool to watch those things grow. It’s a great reminder of the celebration.”
Niko Moon shares a sweet memory that he has with his mom…
“So a really cool memory that I got about my mom is when I was a little kid like five or six years old, every day when she would pick me up from school, she’d have a little treat in the glove box. Every day be some different maybe some bubble gum. It wasn’t anything big, but all day long at school. You know, it would get me through the day because I’d be thinking about what kind of treat was she going to have for me.”
Ingrid Andress credits a trait passed down to her from her mom that is helping her career.
“My mom has an incredible work ethic, and she raised 5 kids. I definitely use that to this day – I don’t have kids, but I feel like the music industry is difficult and takes a lot of work and she definitely inspired me to work really hard.”
Dierks Bentley is thankful for his wife and the job she does as mom to their kids…
“It’s the toughest job out there being a mom, and I know from my life with my wife Cassidy. We work as a team together when I’m home, and it takes everyone to get the job done, me and her, working together. So, when I go on the road, I just have so much respect for her because it’s hard to do it right, if you want to do it great, and she does a great job with it. It’s really rewarding, but it’s also very challenging. I’m so thankful that she takes it on the way she does, and our kids are very lucky to have her.”
Luke Combs shares a memory where he got to bring his mom up on stage.
“Really great memory I have with my mom is the first time that I sold out Coyote Joe’s and Charlotte, brought her on stage introduced her to the crowd. I have a really great photo. That’s one of my favorite photos of me and her together.”
Keith Urban talks about his wife Nicole Kidman providing an environment to raise their kids that is different than the way he was brought up.
“She’s an extraordinary mum, she really, really is. Those girls are very, very lucky, and I feel very lucky that the children I should have in this world happen to be with Nic. I don’t know anything about raising kids and Nic does, and that comes in extremely, um, it’s really made for an experience I wouldn’t have had without that. Her patience, her recognizing them as people and not just little kids is really extraordinary. Her attention to honoring their feelings and listening to them right from day one – really being attentive to that is not how I was raised at all, so it’s really beautiful to see.”
It took moving away from her mom, for Tenille Arts to figure out how special her mom was.
“When I think of my mom, I kind of think about everything that she’s taught me, and I feel like, once I moved away, I realized how incredible she was and everything that she did for me.”
Kenny Chesney talks about the lessons that his mom has passed down to him.
“I think one of the most important lessons that I’ve learned from my mom is just, no matter what life throws at you, is just to take a step back and a deep breath and just still take life as it comes. She’s been through a lot in her life. And she’s handled it. And she’s come through it, I believe, with a lot of grace … and a lot of style. And I’ve learned a lot from that. She has taught me a lot directly and indirectly. And she’s a hard worker, but she loves life. And I thank God that I got my love of life from her.”
Carrie Underwood is a mom to Isaiah and Jacob – and admits life is different with two kids.
“Life is very different with two. We kind of got out of that baby stage with Isaiah. He’s much more self-efficient, and he can brush his own teeth and put his own clothes on, and he’s making decisions for himself, and then we start all over with the little squishy one again.”
To all of the moms, we wish you a very Happy Mother’s Day from everybody at B104!
