The PBS documentary 'Rissi Palmer: Still Here' traces an uncommonly generous performer's journey through the country-music industry and out the other side.
“If that doesn’t tell you everything that you need to know about the business, I don’t know what to say,” Palmer says in the opening moments of her new documentarytraces Palmer’s journey from aspiring singer-songwriter through her fraught days in the country-music industry to the present, where she’s an Apple Music Country radio host, activist, and mother who still writes, records, and performs.
Prior to her Nashville experiences, Palmer was, as she puts it, “one of those hungry, naïve artists.” She’d been working with the St. Louis-based Us Girlz Entertainment but looking for a direction when they all realized she wanted to try country. They couldn’t get anyone to bite, and even her own team made her doubt her worth.
“I was stupid thin, working out all the time. I was really hard on myself, really, really not good to myself for most of my 20s,” she says, breaking into tears as she relives this memory and confesses that the people around her often reaffirmed her negative self-image. Palmer eventually landed at the Nashville indie label 1720 Entertainment, which launched “Country Girl” on radio. What seemed like her big shot turned out to be a bust, and she became involved in a protracted legal battle that landed her back at square one — no ownership of her website or masters.
When she regrouped, her life had changed. She’d become a mother, and wanted to be present for her children. The demands of a career in music and the entertainment machine began to conflict with what she held most important.
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