Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild & Kimberly Schlapman Share Memories Of Their Mothers for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is a special occasion for multiple reasons and the two mothers of Little Big Town, Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman, have kind words and fond memories to share about their own Mother’s Day experiences growing up.

“She was just such a force,” Fairchild tells Sounds Like Nashville and other media of her mother aboard the Carnival Liberty. “Taking care of all of us and we were just spoiled rotten. She is an incredible Southern chef like Kimberly is – biscuits and gravy – and just the overflow of love through her cooking and taking care of us. So I have a feeling we probably didn’t do her justice on Mother’s Day, but we try to make up for it now.”

Schlapman has a particularly special memory that sticks in her mind from Mother’s Day past. She poignantly tells the story of how every Sunday morning on Mother’s Day before heading to church with her family, she, her sister and mother would clip roses from the garden that they would wear all day long.

“I guess it’s very Southern, if your mother’s still living you wear a red rose, if your mother has passed away you wear a white rose, so we would all go out in the front yard and get a little red rose bud,” she explains.

Though started in her childhood days, Schlapman’s mother continues to honor the tradition that began long ago, now paying tribute to her own late mother. “Back when I was a kid, their mothers were also living, so everybody in the family had on a little, tiny red rose bud,” the Georgia native says. “One of my grandmothers is gone, so my mother now wears a white rose which is very sad, but beautiful.”

Little Big Town featured their own children in the sweet video for the new single, “Happy People,” off their latest album, The Breaker. The quartet continues their residency at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium through 2017, in addition to promoting their new product line, Boondocks.