Date 05/08/2015 - News People
Ashley Monroe has no shortage of material to pull from these days ? she just released her third solo album, The Blade, which made its debut on the country charts in second place. Still, the Pistol Annie loves a good cover tune, as evidenced by this version of John Mellencamp's " Pink Houses" that brings her signature crystalline quiver to one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was inspired by a brief "hello" the singer had exchanged with a elderly man sitting on his front porch in Indiana, and recorded bare-bones in a farmhouse in the same state.
