Helen Raleigh is a senior contributor at the Federalist and the author of The Broken Welcome Mat, a new edition of which will be published on May 19.She spoke with City Journal associate editor Daniel ...

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She described Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, which was inspired by her divorce, as the “surprise of my life.” She didn’t make the album with commercial success in mind.

Rolling Up the Welcome Mat followed swiftly on the heels of Ballerini’s previous project, Subject to Change, which fueled her current Billboard Country Airplay chart hit “If You Go Down (I’m ...