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Sunburnt Country Music

For over a decade Sophie Hamley has been interviewing Australian country music artists for her website, Sunburnt Country Music. Now new interviews will be made available in this podcast. Listen to Golden Guitar winners such as Amber Lawrence and Luke O"Shea, and many others, talk about their songs and songwriting, about performance and creativity and so much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:05

Eloise Rayner: From collaboration to solo debut with...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/07/02

Eloise Rayner is a singer and songwriter from Sydney who last year released the song ‘Fallin’ for a Cowboy’ with Zara Lindeman after the pair met at the Academy of Country Music. Rayner now has a single of her own and on her own to release, ‘Can You Still Feel Me Loving You?’.During our recent interview Rayner revealed that she first thought up the initial melody and chorus lyrics for her new song during a dream - and that she has a habit of dreaming snippets of songs which she wakes up and records

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45:31

The Beauty & Truth of Michael Waugh

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/30

Michael Waugh is an award-winning singer and songwriter from Victoria who has released four albums since 2015, the last being The Cast. Since then Michael has been releasing outstanding singles, including ‘We Are Here’ and ‘Fix Me’. The latest single is the title track to his new album, Beauty & Truth, which absolutely lives up to its title.In this in-depth conversation Waugh traces the arc of creating the album from the first track, ‘We Are Here’, to the last, ‘To Be Alive’, and talks about

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23:58

Hoot N' Holler with Ruby Jane

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/28

Ruby Jane is a singer and songwriter originally from Victoria, now resident in Queensland, who started singing at a young age and taught herself to play guitar during lockdown in 2020. She also holds a Diploma of Music and Certificate III in Music Performance.Ruby is a graduate of the Academy of Country Music and has released several songs over the past few months. The latest single, ‘Hoot N’ Holler’, was written with Jen Mize at the Song Muster - part of the Gympie Muster - and later recorded in

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32:50

The Smith & Western Jury check in to Hotel Texas

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/24

The Smith & Western Jury is an alt-country duo from Melbourne with members Sam Lombardi and Simon Torcasio. They formed in 2018 and since then have been releasing singles, and are now releasing their impressive debut album, Hotel Texas.Lombardi and Torcasio after years of playing in different bands – Lombardi in pop rock groups and Torcasio in punk bands. After being inspired by a country covers band they saw perform, they decided to combine their talents and form The Smith & Western

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38:13

Raechel Whitchurch's emotional journey: from grief to...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/22

A note on the audio quality: Raechel lives in a country town in New South Wales and noted before the start of recording that her audio may be patchy, as it can be in the bush. While she’s understandable throughout, you will hear some ‘glitchy’ noises in places.Raechel Whitchurch’s first album, Finally Clear, debuted at #1 in the ARIA Country Music chart and later went on to have Golden Guitar nominations. Her latest album, What a Time to Be Alive, debuted at #4 in the overall ARIA Australian albums

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35:20

Chloe Styler reads a room in Nashville

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/21

Chloe Styler is a singer and songwriter from south-east Queensland who has developed a unique country-pop sound that features great melodies and often wistful, always thoughtful lyrics about life and love and the choices we make in both. Already this year she has opened for Gladys Knight, Nik Kershaw and Go West, and Shannon Noll, and released the singles ‘Time Bomb’ and ‘Twenty Five’. Her latest single is ‘Read a Room’, which she wrote in Nashville with Lauren McLamb and Phil Barton.Styler was in

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25:06

Briana Dinsdale on Nashville adventures and 'Whiskey...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/18

Briana Dinsdale is a singer-songwriter from south-east Queensland who is a recent graduate of the Academy of Country Music and who released her debut album, Beginnings, in 2021. Since then she’s released some irresistible country pop songs, including last year’s ‘Chasing Boys’.Dinsdale's latest single is ‘Whiskey Worked That Way’, which she wrote with Robbie Mortimer, Chloe Styler and Jen Mize, and as with all of Dinsdale's songs it seems to head one way but goes into other and that new direction is

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29:43

Sweet Talk and some Real Good Cookin'

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/17

Listening to Sweet Talk in 2022 and the single ‘Warm Love’ last year, and I spoke to brothers Tane and Soren Walker about it at that time.Since then Sweet Talk have carved up the Tamworth Country Music Festival and played Bluesfest, where Kasey Chambers joined them on stage. They released the single ‘Lovin’ Myself’, a collaboration with Andy Golledge and have a new single of their own, ‘Real Good Cookin’’, which was the subject of this interview with band co-founders Soren Walker and David

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24:50

Shanleigh Rose on 'Ricochet', Sisyphus and songwriting

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/12

Shanleigh Rose is a singer-songwriter from Queensland's Sunshine Coast who has released several catchy country-pop singles and won the 2023 Gympie Muster Junior Talent Search as well as being a Top 10 Finalist in the Groundwater Country Music Festival KIX Start Competition.Last year Rose attended the Junior Academy of Country Music and the Dag Sheep Station Songwriting Retreat, and in this interview she talks about both as well as her musical background, influences, songwriting process and that new

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46:39

Andy Golledge: On tour and in brilliant form

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/10

The first I knew of Andy Golledge was seeing him in the 2019 SBS series Robbie Hood. He had the role of Robbie’s dad and he played guitar and sang, and his music was an integral part of the show, which remains one of my favourite anythings and always will (and it’s still available to stream on SBS).At the time I couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard of Golledge, but research revealed that he hadn’t released recorded music. Thankfully, in early 2020 he released the EP Namoi. But then, of course, everything

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27:17

Adam Harvey on new single 'It's Gettin' Late',...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/10

Adam Harvey is the winner of 9 Golden Guitars and untold numbers of fans, with over half a million albums sold across several albums, includingThe Great Country Songbookswith Troy Cassar-Daley and Beccy Cole, and he will have a new album out later in the year.In this interview Harvey touches on the story behind his catchy new single ‘It’s Gettin’ Late’, written with hit songwriter David Lee Murphy; it turns out it was inspired by a neighbour who may not have been able to take a hint …Harvey recalls

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30:17

Abigail Wighton on her new EP, soon, and tour

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/04

Abigail Wighton is a folk-influenced singer-songwriter from Sydney who released the EP interwoven in 2019. In recent months she has released the singles ‘letter’ and ‘if you let me’ from her new EP soon. She’s also supported Fanny Lumsden at her Sydney show and played in the National Folk Festival.In our recent interview Wighton talked about her musical journey, from an unlikely start writing songs for the funerals of her pet mice to studying music at university and releasing her debut EP Interwoven

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30:48

Tammy Moxon on her heartfelt new album, Fighting Chance

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/06/02

Tammy Moxon lives in Townsville, Far North Queensland, where she performs live regularly. She released the album Drive Me Sane in 2019 and has been steadily releasing singles leading up to her latest album, Fighting Chance, which was recorded with producer Shane Nicholson in just three days, in and around lockdown travel restrictions.As on Drive Me Sane, Moxon shows herself to be a thoughtful songwriter who is prepared to be vulnerable not to unburden herself but to share something with the

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32:52

Brooke Taylor finds that There's Magic in Mistakes

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/27

**Mild language warning**Brooke Taylor is an alt-country singer, songwriter and guitarist from Melbourne who released her debut album It’s the Little Things in 2020. Her second album, There’s Magic in Mistakes, is not long out in the world. It is by turns pragmatic and joyful, wry and compassionate, and at its core is Taylor's inherent ability to entertain and be present in her music.As I found out when Taylor and I spoke recently, several songs on the album came together quickly, and others emerged

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34:03

Mak & Shar are onto the Best Thing

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/25

Mak & Shar are brothers from Mudgee in New South Wales who released their debut single together in 2022 - but this was far from their first release as they were members of the band Brothers3 and as such played 12 Tamworth Country Music Festivals and appeared on X Factor in 2016. They released the single ‘Leap of Faith’ earlier this year and now have a new single, ‘Best Thing’ (watch the music videohere).During our recent interview the brothers talked about their writing and recording process -

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26:06

Katie Brooke can't fake that

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/20

released a self-titled EP in 2020 and her debut album, Sticks, Stones and Stories, in 2022. Late last year she released the single ‘Too Far Down’ and her latest single is ‘Can’t Fake That’.‘Can’t Fake That’ is Brooke’s tribute to women of the land, with a lighthearted feeling that was achieved by Brooke and her producer, Rusty Crook, by deciding to re-record the song after realising their first version wasn’t quite right.Brooke lives on the land and draws inspiration from it; she also makes it clear

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37:01

Jayne Denham and his dynamite Moonshine

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/19

Jayne Denham was nominated for a Golden Guitar in 2022 for her last album, Wanted, and she returns now with Moonshine, which is an irrepressible force of an album that features Jayne’s amazing vocal power.Whereas Wanted had a spaghetti western theme, Denham chose the Prohibition era as the creative inspiration for Moonshine. Working with her Nashville-based producer Brian White, she carefully selected songs that would not only work individually but contribute to the whole vision of the album. These

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29:40

Jay Santilli takes the 'Long Way Home'

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/13

Melbourne singer and songwriter Jay Santilli has been immersed in music since childhood, listening to classic country artists on the radio growing up, begging her parents for a keyboard at age 10 and learning saxophone then guitar. She formed a band with friends and would go on to take part in such competitions as the (now-defunct) Telstra Road to Tamworth contest. This year she was a Grand Finalist in the Toyota Star Maker competition.The path to being a musician has not, however, been

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19:59

Troy Cassar-Daley: Between the Fires

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/11

When reviewing Troy Cassar-Daley’s last album,The World Today(2021), I compared him to Orpheus, going to the Underworld in search of his wife, Eurydice, who had been taken there by Hades. But after going into the darkness to find what he was looking for then turning back at the point of rescue only to see Eurydice disappear – as the myth has it – Cassar-Daley as Orpheus turned his face forwards and stepped into the light, as complicated as the path ahead was.‘Troy Cassar-Daley has long been a beacon

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34:21

Hana & Jessie-Lee's Bad Habits say what they mean

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/05/06

Hana & Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits are a Melbourne duo who released their debut album, Southlands, in 2017 and have just released their latest album, the gloriously entertaining and thought-provoking Say What You Mean.The longtime friends and collaborators started their performing life in punk bands over a decade ago in their hometown of Adelaide before forming Hana & Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits, with Hana on vocals and Jessie-Lee on guitar, in 2014. The catalyst was a batch of country-tinged songs

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