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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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11:16

Claudia Tripp on why she's Never Drinking Again

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/23

Claudia Tripp is an artist from Perth in Western Australia who was a Grand Finalist in this year’s Toyota Star Maker competition. She released the single ‘I Only Miss You When I’m Drunk’ late last year and now has a new single, ‘I’m Never Drinking Again’.Says Tripp of the song, which she wrote with Rachael Fahim and MSquared: '"I'm Never Drinking Again" was a song title idea I held with me for a long time, loving that it's been said by almost everyone. When I brought the song to Rachael and

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24:19

Interview with Steph Wood

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/20

Steph Wood is a singer-songwriter from Sydney who recently released her self-titled debut EP, which is a collection of five songs that are heartfelt, sometimes sad, and all memorable. While Wood has been singing for most of her life she has only recently started performing and recording, and she has wholeheartedly embraced songwriting, gaining formal qualifications.Wood and I spoke recently about what songwriting means to her, and also what it's like trying to find gigs in a city where venues are

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23:31

Interview with Jackson James

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/19

Jackson James has an extensive background in the music industry. As an artist he's opened for Rick Price, Diesel, Melanie Dyer and Caitlyn Shadbolt. As a writer heco-wrote the songs 'One More Kiss' and 'Never See Me Cry' by Hudson Rose; he also produced both songs and made the music videos.Now James has released his own single, ‘Get Around to It’. James says, 'This song started from a guitar riff that came to me one day on the way out the door. I later sat down with my partner/co-writer Melanie

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20:52

Tyla Rodrigues goes Way Out West

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/18

Tyla Rodrigues released the single ‘All She Is’ last year and since then she’s been busy appearing at festivals and touring Queensland. She has a brand new, and rather haunting, single called ‘Way Out West’. As I discovered when we spoke recently, Rodrigues approached the writing of this song differently to previous songs, and it was great to have the opportunity to find out more about her process.Rodrigues has an exciting few months ahead, appearing at Groundwater Country Music Festival on the Gold

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24:10

Jo Caseley has a Special way with songs

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/14

Jo Caseley is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the Southern Highlands of New South Wales who cut her teeth busking on the streets of Sydney's Kings Cross. She also has an extensive background as a writer, having studied journalism; she is not only a skilled storyteller but one who is passionate about music and connecting with people through it.Caseley has released two albums,Dusty Dirt TrackandAlbany; she attended the Academy of Country Music in Tamworth earlier this year. Her

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31:49

Tammy Moxon and her Fighting Chance

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/12

Tammy Moxon is an artist from Townsville in Queensland who released her debutalbum,Drive Me Sane, in 2019. She intended to go back to the studio in 2020 but, of course, all those sorts of plans were derailed, but it was worth waiting for her new single, 'Fighting Chance', with the promise of more songs to come.During our recent interview I discovered all sorts of interesting things about Moxon, including how many hundreds of songs are in her repertoire for gigs, and some of the more interesting

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25:29

Mark Moldre and his Nambucca Fables

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/05

Mark Moldre is a singer-songwriter from northern New South Wales. He fronted four-piece band Hitchcock’s Regret for a seven-year period and recorded his first solo release in 2009. His previous album was 2019's Fever Dreams.Moldre's latest album is Nambucca Fables, which combines melodic Americana and indie pop-rock. It is a moving, often dreamlike exploration of grief - specifically, Moldre's grief after his mother died. She grew up in Nambucca Heads, NSW, and it is to this place and his memories

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27:32

Nathan May is starting somewhere

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/06/03

Nathan May is an Arabana, Yawuru and Marridjabin man who grew up in the Northern Territory and who is now living on Kaurna country in South Australia. Last year he released the single 'Fix It Up' and it became immediately clear that he is an artist of great talent and subtle power.May has now released the unforgettable single 'It's Gotta Start Somewhere'. 'I wanted to write a song about my grandmother and how she grew up,' says May of the song, which he wrote with Luke O'Shea and James Gillard. 'My

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28:24

Interview with Watty Thompson

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/30

Watty Thompson is an artist from the Ottway Ranges in Victoria and he has just released his self-titled debutalbum, whichis an epic collectionof songs that dig deeply into the trenches of life and which are ultimately life-affirming.From writing about and appreciating the natural world in 'City to Run' and 'The Beauty That Surrounds Ya' to honouring the end of a life in 'Mountain Sage' and 'Coming Home', Thompson is clearly a songwriter who is open to everything around him and finds a way to bring

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36:43

Hayley Jensen brings it on

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/23

Sydney-based artist Hayley Jensen is one of Australia’s most powerful live performers, with a range and dynamism honed since childhood, although she first came to public attention onAustralian Idol several years ago. Since then she has released three studio albums, the latest of which was Breakin' Hearts in 2021,and she has twice been nominated for the Golden Guitar for Female Artist of the Year.Jensen has a brand new single, ‘Bring it On’, and if you need a song to motivate you to do just about

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30:47

Interview with Kaitlyn Thomas

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/20

Kaitlyn Thomas has been a singer and songwriter from a young age, and her first single, ‘I Wish’, was released in 2011. Since then Kaitlyn has honed her country-rock and pop sound and taken it all the way to our TV screens, appearing on the 2023 season of Australian Idol. Her latest single is the anthemic ‘Pretty Little Thing’, which came about, she says, 'after being told I don't fit the mould and what is typically expected as a female artist. I wanted to write about embracing who I am and female

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24:46

Interview with Ben Mastwyk

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/15

Ben Mastwyk is the ringmaster of his band The Millions and the creator of three albums, the latest of which, Livin’ on Gold Street, was released in 2021. Mastwyk's music is thrillingly entertaining while also being lyrically thoughtful, proof that an artist can be dedicated to putting on a great show - even in recorded form - while also being interested in the structure and integrity of the songs. Or, indeed, proving that those things are intrinsically related.Mastwyk's new single released in March

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23:48

Interview with Maddie Cail

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/14

Maddie Cail is Gold Coast singer-songwriter who is a relative newcomer to the country music scene, releasing songs such as 'Look At You Now' and 'Good Girl Gone Bad' over the past couple of years. But she has galloped - pun completely intended - in with a great new song, 'Giddy Up', that is all about taking chances and getting on with things, even if that means accepting that something hasn't turned out the way you want it to.Cail is also a primary school teacher who, as I found out when we spoke

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24:25

Interview with Brooke Schubert

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/08

Brooke Schubert is an artist from Queensland who recently had two different singles released - one on her own, 'New Kids in Town', and another, 'Simple Things' withRoute 33. It's not the first time Schubert has collaborated in recent times, as she released 'Simple Then' with Will Day in 2021.Schubert will be familiar to Australian TV audiences too as she has appeared on The Voice and Australian Idol, and also seems to have a good handle on TikTok! These were vehicles for Schubert to share her

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24:07

Brad Cox on his new album Acres

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/06

Since Brad Cox first came to our attention in 2018 he has released two studio albums and an acoustic album, and had multiple nominations for awards including Golden Guitars, ARIA and APRA. His first, self-titled album was released in 2018 and showed the breadth of Cox's songwriting skills. His second album, My Mind's Projection, was released in 2020. The acoustic album What's Your Favourite Country Song? was released in 2021.Once the world shut down Cox was landlocked and he set to creating new

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29:23

LEO and the perfect pandemic song

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/05

LEO is a singer-songwriter of alt-country and folk-influenced songs who travels the east coast of Australia playing her music. In 2021 she released an EP in 2021 and a lovely Christmas single, ‘North Star’. Last year she released an acoustic album that contains what just may be the perfect pandemic song, 'Refund'. It's appropriate because the album sprang from lockdowns when LEO was unable to work - as she made her living as a working musician - and going through intense personal changes.The album

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24:03

Interview with Bradley Christmas from Copperline

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/05/01

Copperline are a four-piece band from Sydney and the Blue Mountains who released their second album,Borrowed, Broken and Blue, last year. One of the songs from that album, ‘Lucinda’, has been streamed over 150 000 times on Spotify alone, and their songs have been finalists for the International Songwriting Competition, Tamworth Songwriters Association and Australian Songwriters Association.The band has been on the road already this year, playing the Tamworth Country Music Festival main stage for the

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32:10

Interview with Matt Joe Gow

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/04/29

The second track on Aotearoa/NZ-born Melbourne resident Matt Joe Gow's fourth album, Between Tonight and Tomorrow, released a few weeks ago, is ''Til My Whole Heart Bursts' and there is a sense on this album that Gow has not only committed his whole heart but been prepared to show it to his listeners. It is an album of joys and sorrows and all the layers of human experience in between, in which the title serves the function of metaphor: we exist in this liminal space between tonight and tomorrow,

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19:49

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham and their...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/04/25

Felicity Urquhart has recorded several albums and EPs as a solo artist and as a member of Bennett Bowtell and Urquhart, winning 13 Golden Guitars along the way. She was also the host of Saturday Night Country for several years.Josh Cunningham is a founding member of The Waifs, who have released 10 albums over three decades and won multiple ARIA awards.Together Felicity and Josh released the albumThe Song Clubin 2021 and it was nominated for an ARIA and four Golden Guitars, and won the AIR Award for

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20:28

Lily Grace follows her road

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2023/04/23

Lily Grace released her first single, 'Annie June', in 2021 and in collaboration with James Blundell. She followed that with 'Sixteen Wishes' and last year 'The Two of Us Meet', which has had over one million streams on Spotify alone. Her latest single is 'Follow My Road' and it's fair to say Lily has been following her own road in creating infectious country pop - and taking it all the way to Nashville, where she's currently based.More about Lily Grace: https://lilygracelive.com/Listen to Lily

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