A Postcard from Jillian Jacqueline

EDITOR’S NOTE: No Depression’s “Postcard From” series features dispatches from artists' daily lives on the road, in the studio, or anywhere in between. Our next installment comes from Nashville singer-songwriter Jillian Jacqueline, whose new album MotherDaughterSisterWife was released on October 17, 2025.

Just a couple hours before this photo was taken, I was standing on stage with eight other women as we sound-checked what would be the closing song of the night, a group singalong version of “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” I was feeling a bit nervous for several reasons that night, one being that the show we were preparing for, titled MOTHER, was something I had put together and spent months planning with my dear friends and fellow artists Caitlyn Smith and Lucie Silvas. A show that’s entire bill consisted only of artists who also are mothers. A show that just so happened to cap off a weekend celebrating the release of my sophomore album MotherDaughterSisterWife.

Another reason I was feeling a bit nervous was because I was standing side by side with none other than one of my childhood heroes — a woman whose music had been the soundtrack to my adolescence, country music powerhouse Martina McBride. Naturally, I was in disbelief that she had even agreed to be a part of the show and I was praying that everything would run smoothly so as not to embarrass myself in front of a legend.