Burlington, MA – Alecia Nugent has released a music video for the song “Don’t Tell Me” off of her recently released album Hillbilly Goddess on Rounder Records. The album was released this past spring to critically acclaimed reviews, and was followed by a nomination for 2009 IBMA Female Vocalist of The Year. Hillbilly Goddess debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Bluegrass Album charts, and both the title track and the album have remained steady in the Top 15 of the Bluegrass Unlimited charts. The video for “Don’t Tell Me” was shot just north of Nashville, TN and was directed by Glenn Sweitzer. The IBMA awards will take place in Nashville, TN on October 1, 2009.

Hillbilly Goddess, delivers on the promises of 2004’s Alecia Nugent and 2006’s A Little Girl…A Big Four-Lane with a confident collection of sassy barnburners and heart-rending ballads, all performed with smooth precision, gorgeous tone and unbridled exuberance. Featuring stellar support from Grammy^® winning producer Carl Jackson, duet partner Bradley Walker, J.D. Crowe, members of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Blue Highway, The Dan Tyminski Band and The Infamous Stringdusters, Nugent’s Hillbilly Goddess is major step forward for one of the great new voices in American music.

Alecia Nugent "Hilbilly Goddess" (Rounder Records)

Hillbilly Goddess includes a classic-sounding heartbreaker titled “The Writing’s All Over the Wall,” and, as before, Nugent proves she can rip through a zippy bluegrass romp with ease – the feisty-female “Wrecking the Train” and the tongue-in-cheek “Cryin’ All the Way to the Bank.” However, Hillbilly Goddess plows some new ground. Nugent digs into lyrics with more poetry, complexity and depth than ever before, particularly in the ballads “Wishin’ Hard,” “Already Home” and the delicately lovely “Don’t Tell Me.” Nugent also emerges as a songwriter on this album. In addition to her autobiographical “Nugent Family Band,” co-written with Dixie and Tom T. Hall, she was inspired to write the wry “Hillbilly Goddess” title tune with Carl Jackson and Sonya Kelly.

– From Rounder Records