An Interview For The 9513 With The Lovely Julie Roberts

Signed to Mercury Nashville in 2004, Julie Roberts made her debut that year with the single "Break Down Here", a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and the first track from her self-titled debut album. A second critically acclaimed album for Mercury, Men & Mascara, followed in 2006.

During the massive Nashville floods, Roberts had a harrowing escape that demolished her home and totalled her vehicle. I had an opportunity to do an interview with her for The 9513 and we talked about that crazy experience as well as two big upcoming projects she's working on. Read a snippet of the interview below and then catch the entire thing HERE at The 9513.

Momma came in and told us what was going on, and it takes about ten minutes just to comprehend what’s going on. We’ve never had to deal with anything like that. We were told we weren’t in a flood plain. Nobody that lives there has flood insurance. So we didn’t ever expect something like this to happen. So, we got dressed and all went back outside to check on what was going on. And when we went back outside, my car was floating away. And I waded in to try to go get it, but I couldn’t get it of course. And at that point, we knew this was really serious. We knew we had to get out of the house. The water was rising really fast.

The rescue people came by boat and said that they’d be back. They were concentrating on the elderly and the sick first. So we had a little bit of time to carry everything we could up to the second level. A lot we couldn’t–mostly because the water was rising so fast. And then we couldn’t go back downstairs because the water was so high. The power was still on and covering the outlets so we were kind of scared to go back downstairs because of the electrical current and things like that. So we went up and opened up an upstairs window. It was real quiet. It was like a movie. Real quiet. Scary quiet. All you could hear was water rushing.