Sunburnt Country Music

Updated: 18 Aug 2025 • 336 episodes
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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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Chloe Marks grew up in Innisfail in Far North Queensland and she now lives in Brisbane. She has been releasing music in various guises since 2015 and now, as Chloe Marks & The Mayhem, she has released two singles this year. The latest is ‘Skip September’. It was clear during our interview that Marks is an artist who te

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Mack & Cook are Lizzie Mack and Murray Cook are two members of The Soul Movers, who have released several albums and are festival favourites. They are now creating music as a duo and recently released their first single, the slow burn ‘Time Goes By’. What goes into this single is the experience of two of Australia’s mo

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Sarah Catania is a singer-songwriter from Melbourne who released her first single, ‘Venus and Mars’, in 2022 and she’s been steadily releasing singles since then, the latest being the anthemic ‘Front Row’.    A graduate of the CMAA Academy of Country Music, Catania not only made connections with other Academy graduates

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When I saw Melbourne band Elly McK & The Unbelievers play in Sydney last year, it was one of the most entertaining shows I’d ever attended. The band had this groove between them that meant they could fly free within the structures of their songs, and it was evident that they all really liked each other. That is such a

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Central Coast, NSW artist Chelsea Berman released her debut EP, Better Than Ever, in 2018 and since then she’s been steadily releasing catchy country-pop tunes and some heartbreakers too, since as ‘Your Call’ from 2020 (which has a standout vocal and lyric). Her second EP, Can You Just Not, was released in 2021. Now he

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The night before I was due to interview Liam Maihi, who was a Grand Finalist in The Voice Australia before taking time away from music to raise his young family, I was was watching a TikTok Live hosted by Nathan Lamont. Every now and again Nathan will host these lives and bring in musicians to talk, mainly, about their

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