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Sunburnt Country Music

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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.

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  • Brad Cox on the many facets of Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions

    Brad Cox on the many facets of Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions
    Oct 5 2025
    It can never be said that Jindabyne local now Queensland resident Brad Cox has rested on his laurels. From his debut self-titled album, released in 2018, through second album My Mind’s Projection in 2020 and Acresin 2023, he has evolved his sound while building his audience, often through touring his own shows and playing festivals. His voice is big, and so are the stories and themes in his songs. Cox has never been an artist who has lived by the maxim ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. It may be fair to say that he is, indeed, an artist who sets out to break things, musically speaking, because that will create change, and he wants to pursue that change and see where it leads him.That may well be how he arrived at his latest album, Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions. From the second track, ‘Sunset Psalm’, which is preceded by a short instrumental track, in which he sings ‘I saw the light and I’m running’, we are off and running towards the light he is holding up, leading us into and through that musical change he is pursuing. There are tracks on this album that are very much not country music and still also very much Brad Cox, as we discuss in this new interview. There are others that are country music but not in the way anyone else could make it. That’s because Cox has a clear sense of the songs he wants to write and record and release, and he has the talent to back that up. Which is not to say that he works alone – in one part of this interview he talks about the role A&R from his label, Warner Music Australia, played in the formation of the album. He also has a red-hot band (as anyone who has seen him play live can attest). But it all stems from him and the extent to which he is prepared to move through those multiple dimensions of potential, and of his artistry, to find not only what works but what is necessary and strong and right.There is audacity in pursuing the creative path you want as opposed to what may work better for others, because you need to hold your nerve. And holding one’s nerve takes more courage than ever appears to the naked eye. When there’s an audience, and radio stations, and a record company waiting to see what you come up with, it would be normal to waver. But if Cox ever wavered in making this album, there’s no sign of it. This is a panoramic, brightly hued work, and we’re all the better for it. It was, therefore, wonderful to have the chance to talk to him about it. And as he says towards the end of the chat: ‘I’m very thankful for all of it – the ebbs, the flows, the highs, the lows. It’s all about experience.’Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions is out now through Warner Music Australia.Listen to Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions on Apple Musichttps://apple.co/4nAzHz5Listen to Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions on Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/album/1N2LHCJgUEy8GzXItAuNKg?si=pXYX7Wm3QxmM3AhW-dbFyw[PHOTO CREDIT: ROCKET WEIJERS]For more Sunburnt Country Music:InstagramFacebook YouTubewebsite Substack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    25 m
  • Sara Berki is In the Neon for Ridin’ Hearts

    Sara Berki is In the Neon for Ridin’ Hearts
    Oct 4 2025

    Sara Berki is a country music artist from the greater Sydney area who impressed audiences from her very first single, ‘Fallin’ Off the Heartline’, and has kept releasing songs that not only consolidate those early impressions but shift her as an artist into new territory while also being identifiably her sound, as evidenced on her recent second EP, In the Neon.


    Berki performed at the inaugural Ridin’ Hearts festival in 2023 and this year she returns as the festival goes to Sydney Showgrounds at Homebush on Saturday 25 October and Caribbean Gardens in Melbourne on 25 October. Berki appears alongside Australians Briana Dinsdale, Lewis Love, Lane Pittman, and Ridin’ Starts winner Ruby Jane, and Americans Megan Moroney, Nate Smith, Avery Anna, Waylon Wyatt and Karley Scott Collins.


    Berki is such a versatile live performer that she will no doubt win more fans at the festival. We talk about her plans for her set and about her live performance generally – having seen her play live earlier this year on a couple of occasions, each quite different, as well as in 2022 in Tamworth, I know what a great live performer she is, able to adapt to venue and audience, and to being a front woman or playing solo acoustic.


    Ahead of Ridin’ Hearts I caught up with Berki about what it’s like to return to the festival as well as her other big performance this month: singing at the NRLW final on 5 October. As I discovered, she is from an NRL family and absolutely loves the sport, so there couldn’t be a more perfect pairing of artist and event.


    For all the information about Ridin’ Hearts, go to https://www.ridinhearts.com


    [PHOTO CREDIT: GRACIE STEINDL]


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  • Jake Davey has ‘Got It All’ with new country pop hit

    Jake Davey has ‘Got It All’ with new country pop hit
    Sep 29 2025

    Jake Davey is one of those multi-talented artists who must have an incredibly well-organised diary because he moves so regularly between making videos and producing music for other artists as well as writing and recording his own songs, and playing live. Two years ago, however, it seemed there was little prospect of any of that when Davey was given a diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome, which meant he was told he may not walk again or have children.


    ‘I think everyone gets knocked down in life,’ he says in our new interview, ‘but it’s how you get back up and how many times you get back up. That’s definitely what I felt when it happened to me and [I thought], Okay – this isn’t going to define who I am. I can let it, but I’m not going to.’


    Davey also says that he would have been recording music and writing and doing other things in a wheelchair – but his determination and the work he’s done and continues to do has meant he doesn’t need to.


    ‘You can try and hold me down,’ he says, laughing, ‘but it’s not going to work out too well.’


    This is context for the song that Davey has just released, ‘Got It All’, which is a feel-good anthem that is about embracing and celebrating what you have. And context does matter: this song is anchored in his lived experience. The video clip, filmed by his good friend Jackson James, backs up the message in the song (and I did have a question about why Davey didn’t make his own video!) and was made when James was visiting from his new home in Nashville for Davey’s wedding.


    Davey may have to put his activities on pause or, at least, slow for a little while as he’s due to become a father soon. No doubt his song will take on new meaning, and he will likely take on fatherhood the way he’s taken on every other endeavour – and he’ll keep making music while he’s doing it.


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    29 m
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