Tonight on TLC 19 Kids and Counting starring the Duggar Family continues with an all new Tuesday November 25, season 9 episode 17 called, “Amy’s Nashville Dreams,” and we have your recap below. On tonight’s episode, Amy Duggar performs on a showboat dinner cruise in Branson, Mo., and celebrates her 28th birthday with her Duggar cousins at a backyard bonfire. Also: a look at the making of Amy’s music video in Nashville.
On the last episode, the DC Duggars made it to Chicago in the nick of time for David & Priscilla’s gender reveal party! Who was right, Team Boy or Team Girl? Later, the family enjoyed the sights of the “Windy City” and capped off their trip with a camping excursion.
On tonight’s episode as per the TLC synopsis, “Cousin Amy returns for a new special as she continues to pursue her music career. Amy performs on a sold out showboat dinner cruise then celebrates her 28th birthday with her Duggar family. Plus, we get a behind the scenes look at her new music video.”
Tonight’s episode is going to be filled with the usual Duggar Family drama and you won’t want to miss it, so be sure to tune in for our live coverage of the show tonight at 9 PM EST! While you wait for our recap hit the comments and let us know how excited you are about The Duggar Family being back for another season.
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Since Amy’s trip to Nashville, she has been at home spending time with family and friends and now she wants to focus on her singing career. She asks her father how he would feel about her moving, and he says it’s a good place, but she is hesitant to leave her hometown behind. However, there are things she simply can’t do in Arkansas.
Now, she is going to film her own music video in Nashville. Before she goes, though, she is going to sing on the Branson Belle, a large showboat in Branson, MO. Amy’s biggest performance to date was Jill’s wedding this past summer, which had about 2,000 people in attendance.
She goes shopping to find a dress for her performance, and her mother and grandmother want her to get a showy dress, but she disagrees. Her grandma suggests a calf-length, black sparkly skirt to wear with a bright top, and she says no immediately. They remind her that on the stage, clothes look different from in real life. She lets them give her things to try on, but she says ultimately the decision is still hers.
She ends up picking a blue dress with lace sleeves and lace covering the entire dress.
Amy decides to do her own twist on the Willie Nelson song “Always On My Mind” for her huge performance on the Branson Belle dinner cruise. “I just hope I don’t mess up the song,” Amy says nervously backstage before the performance.
She gets onstage, and the music doesn’t start, leaving her to make awkward jokes that no one laughs at. “I’m not surprised that it screwed up,” she says. “That’s my life. It never goes as planned.” However, her ability to handle the mishap gives her confidence in herself as an artist.
Now it is Amy’s 28th birthday, and she is doing a bonfire with the family. Johannah smashed into the cake, getting icing all over herself.
Amy wants to prove to herself and her family that she can work on her music career all on her own. She has a meeting with several label execs which she is extremely nervous about. Jamie remarks that she has improved quite a bit since January 2014, when she fumbled a bit out of nervousness performing live. “I was so scared,” she says. “That’s a lot of pressure.” One of the record execs, a woman from Curb Records, is here a second time after having seen her perform once already, which gives Amy some confidence.
Amy sings for the execs, and it goes off without a hitch. “I think my performance was really good, and I put my heart and soul into that performance,” she says. She wants to make a name for herself outside of the 19 Kids show, so she is happy that in Nashville her name doesn’t matter, just her singing.
The execs praise her singing, applauding her. The woman from Curb Records notes her improvement, saying that is a good sign an artist will grow in the future.
Amy is shooting her first music video at a recording studio. She fears people will see her as a laughingstock after seeing the video, and that it won’t match the idea of what a video should be. She forgets the words to her song after she is not allowed to have a written copy of them to look at. Amy is given a copy of the lyrics, but Jamie says that if she were as professional as they wanted her to be, she would never have to say she didn’t know the song.
She says she hasn’t sung the song for months, and he tells her never to say that. The video shoot requires running through the song 15-20 times, but Amy has fun during the shoot.
Amy is back home, and Jamie comes in from Nashville to premiere her new music video with the family. The video goes between showing her singing in the recording and photo studios, and everyone loves it. She was worried it was going to turn out a huge dud, but she loves it and hopes it makes people smile.
THE END!
