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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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33:33

The Kunins on their enchanting new album Waiting for...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2025/01/05

**Stay tuned to the end to listen to 'Birdwatcher' from Waiting fror Lily**There’s something to be said for family harmonies. Anyone who has heard Fanny Lumsden sing live (or recorded) with her brother Tom, or who is rapt in the voices of The McClymonts, or a fan of The Buckleys, will appreciate that there’s a particular magic when family members sing together.Ken Kunin is an American musical artist who moved to Australia several years ago; he has several albums behind him as a solo artist and with

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36:39

PepperCreek Revival on their debut album and long...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/22

What happens when you combine the talents and experience of2022 Blues Music Victoria Hall of Fame inductee and award winning producer / bass player Barry Hills, three other award-winning musicians in the forms of Brian Fraser on lap steel, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals; Roland Kretschmer on electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, Dobro, ukulele, vocals; and drummer and vocalist Nick Carrafa, and multiple award-winning singer/songwriter Kelly Auty? This is, of course, a leading

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42:15

Lullaby of a Breaking Heart: Rose Zita Falko's...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/21

**Listen to the end to hear the song 'Lullaby of a Breaking Heart'After releasing the EPOriginal Sonin 2018, Victorian artistRose Zita Falkofound herself in an enforced break from recording and releasing music due to the pandemic and all the upheaval it wrought. In 2022 she released the single ‘The Plan’ (which is a heartbreaker itself) and actually had another song up her sleeve – but it has only come into the world now.‘Lullaby of a Broken Heart’ is an exceptional piece of work – as its title

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30:36

Explore Jack Nolan's latest album, Songs for Hemingway

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/20

Jack Nolanis a Sydney singer and songwriter who has a storied music career which began in the 1990s – back when Sydney had a plethora of live venues around the city and audiences to go with them – has included six solo albums and one LP with The Kelly Gang in 2004.Nolan’s latest album isSongs for Hemingway, which includes the single ‘Mother of All Storms’, which had itspremiereon Sunburnt Country Music earlier this year. It’s a tour de force of a song and the album delivered on its promise. The

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37:49

New album 'Home Fires': A deep dive with Small Town...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/18

Thefirst time I interviewedFlora Smith and James Arneman, the members ofSmall Town Romance, I learnt a lot about their respective musical backgrounds and we also spoke about making music videos, which is Arneman’s specialty. Partners in life as well as music, the pair both grew up around instruments and performance. In Arneman’s case it was as part of an Australian country music dynasty, as the son of Anne Kirkpatrick and grandson of Joy McKean and Slim Dusty. Smith’s path was different but no less

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23:22

Brittany Elise: ‘Hi, It’s Me’, all the way from...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/16

Although I’veinterviewedBrittany Elisebefore, we didn’t meet in person until September this year and it was in Nashville, where the native Queenslander has been spending time writing, recording and performing. It was not only lovely to meet her but she was so generous with her insider tips about the best places to find live music in the city that is full of options for that.From her first album, 2019’sSomething More, Brittany established that she’s a country music artist with melodic sensibilities

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31:16

Rising star Chloe Styler on ‘Little Lady’ and her big...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/14

One of the benefits of being able to interview an artist more than once is that I can not only hear from them about the new things they’re up to but start to see connections between things they might have been doing a while ago and where that activity and those ideas have led them.Gold Coast rising starChloe Stylerhas had a big year, taking home Breakout Artist of the Yearat theGold Coast Music Awards, charting in the CountryTown Hot 50 airplay charts and appearing in CMT’s Top 10, along with

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30:36

Billie Rose: Slaying ghosts, making killer songs

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2024/12/11

Over the past couple of years Queensland artistBillie Rosehas been releasing alluring, swirling, sometimes mystical singles including ‘Can’t Bring Back the Dead’ and ‘Black Dress’. Her latest is ‘Slaying Ghosts’ and it’s also the name of the EP that captures those single releases and marks the conclusion of that creative chapter in her life.Themes unintentionally emerged amongst the tracks, give that the others are ‘Heartbreak Subway Train’ and ‘Label Me a Killer’ – themes of darkness and death (as

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34:28

Shara Rose: Finding her way and landing on her feet

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/08

Shara Roseis an all round entertainer who is not only a singer and songwriter, but a dancer as well. And as a result of all those skills, she is in demand, touring with Jason Owen, and Tania Kernaghan, and opening for Tones and I. She has also been releasing heartfelt country pop songs and the latest is ‘Finding My Way’.As she says in our interview, Shara was determined to release four songs this year, and she has done that, the other three being ‘Purpose in the Process’, ‘Falling’ and ‘Heart on Her

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38:23

Tammy Moxon on her new single ‘What Am I To Do’

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/06

Some songs arrive quickly; others take years to gestate, waiting for the songwriter to find the right moment to bring them fully to life. For her latest album,Fighting Chance, Townsville artistTammy Moxonwrote several new songs, but in the case of her new single, ‘What Am I To Do’, she discovered a song she wrote a decade before, in the wake of her first break-up, in some old notebooks.As we discuss in this new interview, the song was quite different then. Under the stewardship of producer Shane

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45:56

Sibling duo Mak & Shar on their latest single...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/12/04

After releasing their singles ‘Best Thing’ and ‘Leap of Faith’ earlier this year, brothersMak & Sharhave done what they most love to do: made new music, and this time, with new single ‘Untamed Heart’, they are paying tribute to their late father, who died when they were young.‘Dad was a performer,’ they say. ‘He played Dodger in Lionel Bart'sOliverwhen he was younger, on the West End of London, which is really, really cool. So he was a performer and a musician and he played guitar. And I

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33:47

Country music icon Sara Storer on her powerful new...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/26

Here’s the thing about 22-time Golden Guitar winnerSara Storer: she is both a country music icon – and she has been since she released her debut album,Buffalo Bill, in 2000 and impressed audiences with her unique stories and clear-eyed view of humanity – and she’s an artist who is constantly in search of the next turn in the creative road, not so much restless with what she’s achieved but curious about what else is out there to be captured in song (or, as is the case for her now, in paintings)

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40:26

Laura Frank: On the Road with ‘We Won’t Stop Runnin’’

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/23

Laura Frankis a multifaceted artist – singer, songwriter, performer videographer and much more besides – who lives in Queensland’s Scenic Rim area when she’s not on the road with Tom Curtain and his Katherine Outback Experience. Curtain’s tour goes for several months across the wet season (so he’s not in the Northern Territory then) so Frank was on the road when we spoke recently about her latest single, ‘We Won’t Stop Runnin’’ as well as the music video she made for the single with Nick Morrissey,

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29:37

Adele Oliver unveils new single ‘Angel’

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/19

Well before the release of her previous single, ‘Wiley Blue’,Adele Oliverhad established herself in the music scene in the beautiful Western Australian coastal town of Broome, playing her own shows and supporting touring artists. After the release of that single she supported Troy Cassar-Daley on his recent national tour, and we talk about that in this new interview, along with her latest single, ‘Angel’.‘That song in one afternoon, I think, came out,’ says Oliver of the song. ‘It was one of those

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42:21

Suzie So Blue: From childhood cornet to a cornucopia...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/17

No two interviews are the same and if I haven’t interviewed an artist before I never know quite what to expect, even though I do my research. There was absolutely no evidence in my research on Melbourne artistSuzie So Blue– who has new singles ‘Bend’ and ‘Fall in Love’ – that indicated quite what an amazing life in music she’s had since her childhood. From playing cornet in polka and Czech folk bands with her father and sister to flute in high school (because it was more portable) to stringed

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26:40

Adam Harvey: 17 albums young and heading out on tour

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/11

With an impressive nine Golden Guitar awards and over half a million albums sold,Adam Harveyis one of Australia’s most successful, and beloved, country music stars, and even if all you ever did is see Harvey play live, you’d understand why: he is a great entertainer, a superlative singer, and a performing artist who always gives the impression that there’s nowhere else he’d rather be.In this new interview to mark the release of his seventeenth album,Let the Song Take You Home, we talk about his new

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30:04

All About the International Songwriting Competition

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/09

Jim Morgan is an Australian who has been resident in the United States for several years and who for most of those years has overseen the operations of the International Songwriting Competition and the Unsigned Only Music Competition.Morgan hails from Canberra, where he first discovered his passion for music as a drummer. After venturing to the United States he worked with the Boston Music Awards and the Nemo Music Conference, then at the fledgling International Songwriting Competition (ISC). As

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17:00

Sara Berki on new single, new signing, 2025 tour...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/04

WhenSara Berkireleased her debut single, ‘Fallin’ Off the Heartline’, it was clear she was an artist with great songwriting talent and the voice to deliver those songs in an unforgettable way. Since then she’s been on impressive journey which has now led to her signing with Warner Music Australia and releasing ‘twice’, her first single with that label, as well as announcing a tour in 2025.It’s not always the case that great talent is rewarded with attention and accolades, so it’s heartening to see

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25:32

Kaitlyn Thomas: A dynamic voice in Australian country...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/11/01

Kaitlyn Thomasis one of the most dynamic artists in Australian country music, with songs that are musically rich as well as entertaining and powerfully delivered. Her latest example of this is the single ‘Hell of a Long Time’, which she wrote with Troy Kemp, and MSquared – Michael Paynter and Michael DeLorenzis. The song was written during the pandemic, and itcaptures the essence of catching up with friends and celebrating life's moments.It was a collaboration Thomas relished, although she is just

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25:08

‘Home Town’ heartbreak and Nashville highs: An...

Sunburnt Country Music ·

2024/10/28

I sat down with country-rock artistWill Dayto discuss his recent single ‘Home Town’, his experiences writing and recording in Nashville, and the unique joys of being a festival performer. [NB: He’s since released the single ‘My Kinda Crowd’ – it took me longer than usual to post this interview due to the fact that, well, this is a solo operation and sometimes I can’t keep up!]Day, who hails from south-east Queensland, has been making waves in the country music scene with his blend of country rock

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