Archives for September 2021

Artist: Phoebe Hunt featuring Tabitha Meeks and Makena Hartlin (the Pitch Pipes)
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Song: “Goin’ Gone”

In Their Words: “I was introduced to the Pitch Meeting in Nashville by my dear friend Makena Hartlin. She kept telling me to come out to Sonny’s on a Tuesday here in Nashville. I had been reluctant to go anywhere during the pandemic, but this August, I felt like it was time and the Pitch Meeting graciously featured me as their guest artist. It was really special to see what can happen when a group of supremely talented individuals come together to support one another. I felt heard, held, supported, and lifted up. I hadn’t played in a live setting with a full band in a really long time and it really lifted my spirits. The next week, Makena and Tabitha Meeks invited me to be a featured guest in their Pitch Pipes female songwriter showcase. Again, I was blown away by the support from these beautiful women.

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When you’re a professional in any field, there is a desire to be as successful as possible, often to make the most money and to earn the most respect you can. Those are the ambitions people are taught to strive for. But when you’re a professional artist, some of those profit-driven, more cutthroat goals can be looked down upon or feel uneasy. Or seem incongruent with your mission of making art, mining your soul, and metaphorically touching others. Therefore, what is one to do?

Artists want their work to be heard but also to rise above the idea of commerce. It’s a tricky balance and one that Nashville-based songwriter, Phoebe Hunt, has wrestled with for many years. Yet, via Hunt’s forthcoming album (Neither One of Us is Wrong, out November 12) and newest single, “Some Things Change,” which American Songwriter is premiering here today (September 16), there is a solution for the songwriter: to embrace the idea of reconciliation.

“Every song on the album has a little message of reconciliation,” Hunt tells American Songwriter, “either with another human being or my own self. ‘Some Things Change’ definitely has that. That’s me reconciling with living separate from my band and trusting there is a bigger picture at play.”

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It sounds like an old Willie Nelson song but who wouldn’t want to keep it simple and real: small house, pets, a yard, songs to play locally, and never having to work for the man. Well, Charles Wesley Godwin is matching some of those very ideal life priorities worth his number one. Yet Godwin has a shockingly potent voice that stinks with a gravitas that sounds earnest, emotive, and earthy in all the most musically legit ways.

Godwin will be releasing his new album How the Mighty Fall on November 5th, the follow-up to his debut Seneca, which has been streamed almost 4.4 million times on Spotify alone. Since that release in 2019, he’s been signed to True Grit Management, alongside such luminaries as the Black Pumas, Cody Jinks, Nikki Lane, Paulk Cauthen, and Daniel Donato. 

Glide is premiering the ravishing “Lyin’ Low,” How the Might Fall (below) which buzzes with a full steam of electric guitars, drums, and string instruments giving the song a working-class rootsy flair. Yet while the song might be dipped in the joys of keeping it true, Godwin boils his notes in a compelling way that would make most do a double-take for Colter Wall or Sturgill Simpson.

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