Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham discuss their uplifting new single ‘Joy Roller’

Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham won three Golden Guitar Awards for their most recent album, Birdsong, but that is far from the extent of their award winning, as at last count I believe they have a bajillion – the technical term – between them for their separate endeavours. They have been touring constantly over the past couple of years and they have a brand new song, ‘Joy Roller’.  Joy is what Urquhart and Cunningham bring to people, so this seems fitting. Having seen them play live several times, it is certainly what they offer to audiences, mainly because it’s what they embody on stage. Urquhart has had a flourishing solo career, and two albums with Kevin Bennett and Lyn Bowtell as Bennett Bowtell & Urquhart, and Cunningham is a member of beloved trio The Waifs.  So they were experts before they ever united in music and in life to create something that is different to their other endeavours, because they have allowed it to take its own shape. From their first album, The Song Club, there has never been a sense that they have forced anything to do with this joint enterprise. Which doesn’t mean it’s so easy that it comes without work. It’s work they are both prepared to do, though, which is why they can create new music at a stiff pace while also touring and raising two children (who have their own musical enterprise, The Meadows). ‘Joy Roller’ is the first single from the album Urquhart and Cunningham are working on – not yet fully recorded – and once more sounds like they are riding creative currents together. They really are the best kind of musical treat: accomplished, self-aware, big-hearted and able to create melodically lovely, lyrically inspiring songs. Let’s hope they keep this kind of joy rolling for as long as possible. See Felicity Urquhart and Josh Cunningham live: Monday 28th April – _QLD Music Trails: Ballads & Bush Yarns – _Cunnamulla, QLD  Saturday 12th - Sunday 13th July – _Mullum Roots Festival – _Mullumbimby, NSW Listen to ‘Joy Roller’ on Apple Music Listen to ‘Joy Roller’ on Spotify Follow Sunburnt Country Music on Instagram Follow Sunburnt Country Music on Facebook  Sunburnt Country Music website  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.