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"Ashley Forrest hopes her music career is about to spring to new heights.The Crofton resident spent Monday afternoon recording an interview-performance segment forin Washington, D.C., and announced the release date of her debut CD, &amp;quot;Seven Hundred Miles.&amp;quot;The digital version of Forrest&#039;s album will be available April 16. The hard copy will drop April 30.Forrest found out Wednesday that she has been named &amp;quot;One to Watch for 2013&amp;quot; by the Country Music Association.A series of strategic delays since last fall kept the album out of consumers&#039; hands. Forrest said the album&#039;s &amp;quot;feel-good, summertime songs&amp;quot; lent themselves better to a warm weather release.&amp;quot;Timing is everything in the music business,&amp;quot; she said.&amp;quot;Seven Hundred Miles&amp;quot; was recorded last spring in Nashville under the direction of Grammy-nominated producer. The album&#039;s name represents the exact distance between Forrest&#039;s home in Crofton and the studio in Nashville where it was recorded.Moffatt, a longtime producer, writer and guitarist, said Forrest&#039;s talent and ability instantly made an impression and allowed him some versatility in finding songs to fit her voice range.&amp;quot;I approached the process ... on the same level as I would a major label project so we had some top-shelf songs from the major Nashville publishers,&amp;quot; Moffatt said. &amp;quot;(Her first single)stood out early on and Ashley&#039;s interpretation of the song is obviously making that all-important connection with radio listeners.&amp;quot;While Forrest waited to release the album, &amp;quot;Pourin&#039; Over Me&amp;quot; progressively climbed the charts., a music industry country chart that often propels artists to higher realms such asBillboard, ranked &amp;quot;Pourin&#039; Over Me&amp;quot; in the No. 56 slot in its most recent weekly poll last Friday.The song debuted seven weeks ago in the 80s. Forrest debuted the acoustic version of &amp;quot;Pourin&#039; Over Me&amp;quot; Monday on WMZQ.Forrest&#039;s interview by WMZQ on-air personalitywas no small feat. While Forrest, 24, spent last fall touring smaller radio stations in the South and Midwest, she had her sights set on earning support from the radio station she listened to growing up.She said the support from WMZQ, one of 1,200stations throughout the U.S., is &amp;quot;kinda crazy.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;It&#039;s phenomenal - it&#039;s the coolest thing that&#039;s happened to me,&amp;quot; Forrest said. &amp;quot;To have them on board and behind me means everything.&amp;quot;Forrest&#039;s social media exposure is coordinated byin Nashville, but her radio promotions are handled by a trio of companies -,and.AristoMedia CEO Jeff Walker said Forrest is &amp;quot;a bright new star on the Country music horizon.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;The rest of the country is now discovering what we have known in Nashville for the last few months and the secret is out,&amp;quot; Walker said. &amp;quot;Ashley Forrest is on the rise and there is no holding back.&amp;quot;The success of &amp;quot;Pourin&#039; Over Me&amp;quot; and the support from Forrest&#039;s social media and radio promotions team &amp;quot;gives me such momentum to push it all the way, and push even harder,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;I have such a wonderful team behind me.&amp;quot;Forrest, a 2007 Arundel High School graduate, has consistently played shows alongside her accompanist and brother Ryan D&#039;Ambrosio. She was joined for the first time by Pasadena-basedlast fall.The collaboration with Detour Band has allowed Forrest to learn the ins-and-outs of the music industry, she said, as each of the band members have been playing music upwards of three decades.&amp;quot;From the first day I met them, I knew I liked them,&amp;quot; Forrest said of the five-member band. &amp;quot;They make me laugh hysterically and they are just so much fun. They&#039;ve led me in the right direction.&amp;quot;&amp;quot;Seven Hundred Miles&amp;quot; will be available on,and Forrest&#039;s website,. Thecan be found on YouTube.Find out when Forrest&#039;s WMZQ segment will air by visiting the station&#039;s website or &amp;quot;like&amp;quot;and follow her on Twitter."
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