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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Where do you start with an artist like Jenny Mitchell? That is, how does one start writing about her? If I were to listen to all the tips and tricks for SEO and engagement and whatnot, I’d run this piece through AI and ask it to incorporate keywords. For a little while I tried to make this Sunburnt Country Music conten
When I spoke to northern New South Wales artist Katie Brooke about her single ‘Can’t Fake That’ she described it as being inspired by some people who fall into the ‘big hat, no cattle’ category. Country born and raised, and now living back on the land after a few years spent in Tamworth, Brooke was in a position to ass
Jacynta’lee is a country-pop artist from Far North Queensland who released her debut single in 2021 and has released several songs since. In our recent interview, to chat about her latest single, ‘That’s Alright’, Jacynta’lee talked about working with in-demand Melbourne producing pair MSquared – Michael Delorenzis and
Tanya Ransom is an alt-country artist from the west coast of Australia, with over 15 years of experience on the Australian touring circuit, two independent albums and an EP. She has a third album, The Significance of Time, due for release sometime soon – date tbc – and from it has the new single ‘Winter Song’. This int
Amber Kenny is from the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where she lives on a farm with her family, horses and cherished Maton guitar. I first saw Kenny perform in Tamworth during the 2024 Country Music Festival, appearing at the album launch for her 3 Birds & the Truth bandmate Jo Caseley (the third Bird is Bet
‘You’ve just got to love what you do and really believe in what you’re doing for yourself, and if you do that, that’s where your fulfilment comes from.’ Sydney-based, Orange-raised country-rock artist James Keith says that at a certain point in our latest interview, and it was clear that it wasn’t just words to him, es