Meghan Hayes’ Latecomer

Meghan Hayes has three critically acclaimed albums to her credit leading up to her most recent album, Latecomer, a 10 song collection that showcases her unique ability to craft a good story, and a voice that accompanies it perfectly.

The Virginia born artist said she moved every year as a kid before making a more permanent home in Nashville, TN. “This is by far the longest I’ve lived anywhere,” she exclaimed. Meghan said she’s been writing songs since she was about 15, and doing music ever since.

She recalls her great aunt gifting her a classical guitar as a young girl. “I just picked up the Bob Dylan songbook,” she said. “It had chord charts, and that’s how I learned to play guitar.”

Meghan said she believes she’s been singing about as long as she’s been speaking. “I just love to sing,” she exclaimed. “I’ve often joked I’d be happy if my career had just been singing background vocals – obviously I love all the other things too, but I just adore harmonies and seek them out wherever I go.”

Meghan is also a published poet and has written a number of short stories throughout her career – upon graduating college she said she felt like her path was as “someone who wrote poetry to music,” she said. “I guess it stuck because I’m still doing it. I still write poetry, but there just tends to be music associated with the things that come into my head, so I just go with it.”

With the latest release, Latecomer, Meghan hopes to get on the road with the material this coming winter and early spring, “at least for the Southeastern part of the country,” she said. “Ashville, up into the Shenandoah Mountains, Atlanta, and down into that region we’ll see where it goes from there. I’m often surprised at how tours evolve. I’ve also been really pleased with the radio play,” she said.