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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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20:09

Benny Elder on Longing for Change

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/10/07

Benny Elder is a singer and songwriter from Brisbane who has released several singles, the latest of which are 'Longing for Change' and 'She's Still Blowin' in the Wind'.Elder says of 'Longing for Change' that it 'is for everyone out there that works themselves to the bone chasing big dreams, and a life they think is going to make them happy. It’s coming to the realisation that enjoying the journey is the most important part of the process, and trying to slow down and observe what’s around them

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24:03

Jon from J.V. Rail on 'Enough for Me'

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/10/05

J.V. Rail are a four-piece alt-country band from Western Australia who have released several singles over the past couple of years, the latest of which is ‘Enough for Me’.Says the band of their new song, 'In a world of show, greed and constant need for attention, "Enough For Me"is the antithesis it seems many need reminding of. Simple, small town country life with its simple pleasures that mean the most. Fun, friends and family. It tells the stories of hard-working people hitting the weekend. A cold

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27:10

Angus Gill on departures and Departure & Arrival

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/10/02

Angus Gill is a Golden Guitar winning singer, songwriter, musician and producer who always has one interesting project or another on the go. His latest is the album Departure & Arrival, recorded with Seasons of Change, who also appeared on his album 3 Minute Movies. Across all of his music Gill is a thoughtful, observant songwriter who excels at selecting details of life which become stories in his songs.Gill is in the middle of planning a departure of his own, to Nashville, Tennessee. For a

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22:35

Katelann Maree on songs, faith and dedication

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/25

Katelann Maree is a singer and songwriter from Miles in Queensland who released her debut EP, the bittersweet Different Kind of High, in 2021. She is an artist who is dedicated to improving as a performer and songwriter and open to learning all the time, attending the Academy of Country Music as well as the Gympie Song Muster, where she has collaborated with other writers including Linc Phelps and Amy Ryan, with whom she wrote her latest single, 'Let Him Go'Katelann Maree has plans to record and

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28:03

Jazmyn's Garden keeps getting greener

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/23

Jazmyn is a photographer, music video creator and designer from south-east Queensland. She is also a singer and songwriter who has released her debut EP, Garden, which is full of heart and soul and lovely melodies.The title track was the first single from the EP, followed by 'Mother' and new single 'Lay Your Guns Down', for which Jazmyn has - appropriately, given the other work she does - made a stunning video. Final tracks 'God and I' and 'Keep Getting Greener' round out a five-track package that

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27:07

Blake Dantier and Cass Hopetoun on 'Some Things Never...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/19

Cass Hopetoun and Blake Dantier both released debut albums in 2022, Hopetoun withNot Your Typical Bride and Dantier withDry Season, and both found themselves nominated for the 2023 Golden Guitar for New Talent of the Year. In the past year they also got married and became parents, so there's been a lot going on.While it may seem natural for the pair to record together, they've only now released their first duet ‘Some Things Never Get Old’. It was produced by Dantier and Simon Johnson, who worked

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22:36

Andy Penkow and his Aussie Rain

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/18

Andy Penkow released his second album, Love, Lies & Dirty Dishes, last year and and received a Golden Guitar nomination for Bush Ballad of the year. He has already released some brand new music this year, the singles 'Driving You Home' and his latest, ‘Aussie Rain'.‘As a full time musician, I get the amazing opportunity to travel across Australia and visit some pretty neat places,’ Penkow explains. ‘I first visited a small town in outback New South Wales called Coonabarabran a few years back and

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39:58

Small Town Romance keep the Home Fires burning

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/16

Small Town Romance is a duo from Melbourne whose members are Flora Smith and Jim Arneman. After releasing their self-titled debut album in 2016 they released the single ‘I Don’t Believe You’ in 2020. Their latest single is the enchanting ‘Home Fires’, taken from their forthcoming second album.Both Smith and Arneman have rich musical backgrounds. Arneman is a part of a grand Australian country music lineage: his mother, Anne Kirkpatrick, is the daughter of Slim Dusty and Joy McKean and a cherished

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27:35

Matt Malone on new album For the Term of My Natural Life

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/15

When starting an interview, even with artists I've interviewed before, I have no expectations about which direction the conversation may take. Part of the fun and fascination of interviewing is the not-knowing: anything can happen, and it is always going to be interesting.Before interviewing Victorian artist Matt Malone I knew that in For the Term of My Natural Life, his third LP, he'd produced an album full of epic mini-tales (perhaps that's a contradiction in terms, but it fits here) and thought

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21:55

Zara Lindeman & Eloise Rayner are Fallin' for a Cowboy

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/12

Eloise Rayner is a singer-songwriter from Sydney and Zara Lindeman is a singer-songwriter from the Riverina region of New South Wales. They attended the Academy of Country Music together and have recorded a new song, 'Fallin' for a Cowboy'.It was great to talk to this talented pair about how they came to write together and what they have planned, and how they work together given the geographic distance between them. The interview was done on the day they recorded their single, so the experience was

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17:30

Gotta Get to Know Camille Trail

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/10

Camille Trail is a Queensland artist who was nominated for a Golden Guitar for Best New Talent after releasing her impressive debut album,River of Sins, in 2021. The album was top 5 in the ARIA Country chart and also led to a Queensland Music Award nomination.Since then Trail has played at Folk Alliance at Kansas City and released a new song, ‘Gotta Get to Know You’. When she wrote the song, says Trail, ‘my long-term partner and I had split up and it was that moment where … what do I do now? I moved

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21:28

One song brings Kaylens Rain back

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/08

Kaylens Rain was formed by siblings Glen Harrison and Kaylee Stewart. They released two albums of great country pop, In Our Blood in 2016 and Found in 2018, then took a long break to focus on their young families. Kaylens Rain have now returned with Stewart's husband, Joel, as a member and a new song called, appropriately, ‘One Song Brings You Back’.The song was originally pitched to the band in 2018 by Nashville-based writers Brett Rutledge and Jessica Campbell Waterman. 'We instantly fell in love

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19:42

Felicity Dowd and her Honeycomb & Glue

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/06

Felicity Dowd is a singer-songwriter from the south coast of New South Wales and CMAA Academy of Country Music graduate who released her first single, ‘Blue Skies’, last year. Her latest song is the quite lovely ‘Honeycomb & Glue’.'This song has seemed to connect well with so many different people. It’s about the couples that don’t make sense on paper, they’re a bit abrasive, but no matter what, they’re strong relationships and stick together through thick and thin,'says Dowd of her single.'They

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24:43

Tammy Moxon gets Comfy

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/05

Tammy Moxon released the album Drive Me Sane in 2019 then the brand new single ‘Fighting Chance’ earlier this year. At the same time as writing and recording music she keeps up a brisk performing pace in her hometown of Townsville in Queensland.Moxon now has a great new follow-up single, ‘Comfy’. 'It was the first song I wrote in that three months of the initial pandemic shutdown,' says Moxon. 'I was determined to write a happy love song ... The definition of "comfy" according to me – the state of

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29:15

Luke O'Shea finds the Next Best Thing

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/04

Luke O’Shea has won a lot of Golden Guitars – sixteen – and two of those were won this year for the song ‘South East Queensland’ and its video, which O'Shea co-directed with Jay Seeney. The last time O'Shea won a Golden Guitar for a video it was only last year, for ‘Long Way round’, performed with Ashleigh Dallas and the video also co-directed with Seeney.O'Shea has now reunited with Dallas for the single ‘Next Best Thing’, which is also the title of his forthcoming album. They are a fantastic pair,

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32:52

The two sides of the story of The Pleasures

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/09/02

Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan have so many awards and nominations between them that you'd be reading for a while if they were listed, but suffice to say they are two of the most eminent singer-songwriters in Australian music and luckily for us they decided to work together as The Pleasures.They have released several singles, including 'Every Story Has Two Sides, and have now released their debut album. It is calledThe Beginning of the Endbut hopefully it is just the start for this pair, who have

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21:37

There's Something About Brittany Elise

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/08/31

This year Queensland artist Brittany Elise has been named a finalist at the Independent Country Music Awards for Female Artist of the Year and Album of the Year, and she has recently returned from performing at CMA Fest in Nashville. Last year she was a Grand Finalist in the Toyota Star Maker competition and released her second album, Just Be. She has just released a brand new song, ‘Something About This Town’.'I wrote this song about all the beautiful small-town people in sunny Queensland where I

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24:14

Chloe Styler on her Side B

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/08/29

A few months ago country-pop artist Chloe Styler released the EP Side A, always with the intention of releasing Side B, which she now has. Side B is more introspective in tone that its sister release, with first track and current single 'Hometownless' leading listeners deep into Styler's heart.'These five songs mark the end of a six-year chapter of my life, and to be honest, I’m really looking forward to leaving these memories in the past,' says Styler.In between her A and B Sides Styler played at

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40:35

Matt Joe Gow on his remarkable reprise of 'Between...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/08/26

Earlier this year Matt Joe Gow released his fourth album, the excellent Between Tonight & Tomorrow, then he set out on a tour of his homeland, Aotearoa New Zealand with compatriot Kerryn Fields and they released the song ‘Your Heart of Gold’. There will be more releases from the pair but Joe Gow has also returned to the title track of his album and with longtime collaborator Andrew Pollock recorded a different, remarkable version of it, after a strong audience response to the song as he has

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25:05

Chris Carrapetta on new album Nothing Left to Lose

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/08/23

Chris Carrapetta is an alt-country artist from Sydney who released the EP I’m Not a Stranger last year and recently released the album Nothing Left to Lose, which contains the singles 'This is Not the End' and 'Golden Mile', and showcases Carrapetta's soaring vocals.'The title Nothing Left to Lose is mostly about expressing the idea that once you get to a certain point in your life where you stop caring so much about what people think about you and who you are, it’s about feeling comfortable in who

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