Mason Ashley





Mason Ashley
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Writing well beyond her years, Mason Ashley puts pen to paper to masterfully craft lyrics that tell a timeless story, designs a melody that captures raw emotion, and then sings with an enchanting voice that lulls the listener to another time and place. At just sixteen years old, she is at the start of a blossoming career with a maturity of sound and emotion well beyond her years.

Music has been in her blood since birth. Mason could hear a song on the radio, march her seven year old self into the house, sit down at the upright piano inherited from her great, great grandparents, and begin to play the song she had just heard. She had an ear for music and could play nearly anything she picked up. After piano, came the guitar. Her grandfather was throwing away an old Conn, she saw it in the trash, and was mortified at the injustice of throwing away a piece of art. After rescuing it, she began to play, but something else happened. That old throw-away guitar thrust her into a whole new world of songwriting at the tender age of nine.

“Music has always been a part of me.  I’ve been writing songs since I was nine years old and decided to learn guitar after attempting to teach myself chords on my grandpa’s old Conn until I couldn’t feel my fingers. I got my first guitar for my 10th birthday and the rest is history.”

Mason began to pour her heart, her pre-teen and then teen hurts, desires, wishes, angers into journals. She filled journal after journal with lyrics and melodies. She, her guitar, her pencil, and her journals could be found strewn across her bedroom floor most hours of the day. The pencil, paper, guitar, and her own voice gave her a venue to express herself and move on.

“Music is therapy for me. Sometimes songs come to me that I don’t even know where they came from and sometimes they come from built up emotion that I was never able to put into words until the pen and paper somehow allow it.”


Growing up in the comfortable town of Magnolia, Texas, Mason has spent her teenage years like other teenage girls have for generations, but with a slight twist. She took all of those teenage experiences with boys and friendships and lost and gained relationships and put them to music. The result; songs that anyone of any age who has ever felt love, loss, frustration, joy, romance can relate to.

“The past three years have been filled with laughter and pain and heartache and love and growing up. I learned so much about myself and about the world. I’ve learned about relationships and about people in these past three beautiful, painful, and inspiring years and I poured every ounce of those emotions into this little album. It is absolutely terrifying and so exciting to let those emotions go out into the ears of others, but hopefully it will let those who listen know that they are not alone. I’m so thrilled to get to share my fears, heartbreaks, and stories with anyone that will let me.”

This five song album is her first to be released and is titled after her song, “Into the Song.” Mason will be the first to tell you that this album was inspired by five different guys who have come into and out of and sometimes back into and back out of her life over the last several years. She’s quite certain they know who they are, though she will never name names.

“People and love are so interesting to me so that’s usually what I write about. Music is my way of telling a story. It’s like a photo album of my life.. But with words. So anyone is welcome to turn the pages and make their own interpretations of my pictures…my stories. Stories with melodies.”

Mason’s family has been a huge influence in her life. With her mom, dad, and a brother who is just a couple years younger, she has experienced much of the United States from the backseat of a car. Her family travels as often as they can. Mason’s travels have given her a glimpse of people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, and she draws inspiration from these people and places.

“I’ve been all over the country in the back seat of my parents’ car with a cup of Starbucks and some kind of instrument. I love seeing new places and meeting new people from all different towns and situations. Oceans and people fascinate me. I could sit in a cafe with a cup of coffee and just watch people all day long or play ukulele on the beach forever and be perfectly content.”

Mason is often found surrounded by extended family, all with instruments in hand, wrapped in a big comfy quilt on a porch in the starlight singing, laughing, playing. Simplicity, faith, and family are of upmost importance to her.

“I’ve always felt like I was born in the wrong era. I’m like… 92% sure that I’m actually supposed to be living in the 50′s.”

All the relationships, travels, family, faith, laughter, loss, and love that Mason Ashley has experienced in the past sixteen years are encompassed in this album that speaks to the heart and soul. Life in the small town of Magnolia has drifted into a sea of melodies and lyrics that tell her personal story and the story of many at the same time.

“This record is for that nine year old girl on her bedroom floor writing way too many songs in the key of G. It’s for the thirteen year old that thought she knew what love was. For the beautiful moments that you wish could last for more than just a moment. Finding out that loss is hard and that some ends will forever be loose ends. For the realization that relationships can be tricky and confusing and inconsistent and sometimes you like it that way. Above all, it’s for those nights of just hoping that someone will stay and believing that if they do..you can dance yourself into the song. But even if they don’t stay, you can still write an album about it.”

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