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\n\tAshley Monroe<\/a> may be one of the most country of country artists, with a natural vocal twang and a gift for writing the type of rich story-songs that define the genre, but on her new album Tennessee Lightning<\/em>, the east Tennessee native doesn\u2019t paint in only one color.<\/p>\n \n\tOver the LP\u2019s 17 songs, Monroe touches on the sounds of Americana, country-rock, gospel, and even indie and alt-rock. The song \u201cHot Rod Pipe Dream,\u201d in particular, evokes powerful women-fronted bands like Veruca Salt and the Breeders.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a new interview on Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s Nashville Now<\/a> <\/em>podcast, Monroe dismisses with the tendency to overly dissect genres. Like Linda Martell <\/a>said on Beyonce\u2019s Cowboy Carter<\/em> album, \u201cGenres are a funny little concept, aren\u2019t they?\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI was thinking the other day [about ] eating a sandwich that was so great, but all you could think about is \u2018What would you call this? How did they make this?\u2019 You wouldn\u2019t enjoy it as much,\u201d Monroe says, drawing a culinary analogy to hard and strict genres. \u201cTake a bite out of it and let it touch you and don\u2019t even worry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFor Monroe, her listening habits run the gamut, from Peggy Lee and Lynyrd Skynyrd, she says, to Neil Young and A$AP Rocky: \u201cIt\u2019s the ebb and flow of everything. Whatever is making me go \u2018aw yeah.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n