Angaleena Presley, musician
Angaleena Presley was born in Martin County, Kentucky, to parents who worked as coal miner and school teacher. She learned to play guitar as a teenager and moved to Nashville in the early 2000s to work as a singer-songwriter. She's written songs for artists like Wanda Jackson as well as for the country trio Pistol Annies and has released two solo albums.
Silas House writes: "If there’s a pedigree for a modern country music star, then Angaleena Presley fits all of the criteria: a coal miner’s daughter; native of Beauty, Kentucky; a direct descendent of the original feuding McCoys; a one-time single mother; a graduate of both the school of hard knocks and college; a former cashier at both Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie. Perhaps best of all the member of Platinum-selling Pistol Annies (with Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe) says she 'doesn’t know how to not tell the truth.'”
(2015)
