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Photo Credit: Isaebella Doherty<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Georgia Delves has the sort of velvety-rich voice that could tell you the wildest stories and you’d want to believe her. It is deep, warm, momentarily heartbroken, then soaringly defiant. As Georgia State Line<\/a>, the Melbourne country artist and her band have won a steadfast local following, but – upon releasing their debut album In Colour<\/a><\/em> September 24 via Cheatin’ Hearts Records<\/a> – her wondrous voice and their melancholic, melodic brand of soulful guitar-based country is likely to expose them to a global audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with Tom Brooks, Patrick Wilson and Laura Baxter, they enthusiastically channel Nashville-via-Australia, journeying through bluegrass, folk-rock, and rootsy country with the confidence of experienced, dedicated musos. Brooks is a singer-songwriter under the title Tom & The Moving Wallpaper<\/a>, in which he indulges his passion for krautrock alongside country and roots music. Wilson<\/a> has established himself as a go-to drummer in the Americana tradition, and he\u2019s a singer-songwriter with a number of solo releases to his name (beginning with his accomplished debut EP, Ryan the Moth<\/em> in 2013; currently he\u2019s working on Don\u2019t Hurry<\/em> for 2022 release). Baxter wields banjo and bass with aplomb, a member of both Georgia State Line and Hana & Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits<\/a>. She\u2019s also contributed guest vocals to various Melbourne indie albums, including on the song \u201cBind Particles\u201d from Sleep Decade\u2019s 2018 album Collapse<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With each member of Georgia State Line a highly accomplished musician in their own right, the question of whether too many chefs could lead to clashes of ego in the studio arises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe in some different scenarios, that could happen\u2026[but] I\u2019m really grateful to work with the people I do,\u201d muses Delves. \u201cI feel like as a songwriter, for me, it\u2019s a very isolated process. I write by myself then I take the completed song to the band; I\u2019m really open to ideas about how we arrange it, how we collaborate on that front. We all get along really well. I respect the backgrounds that they all bring, and their experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That includes Kat Mear, who guests on In Colour<\/em> on backing vocals and fiddle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe met Kat through Tom. Tom had a little folk-string-trio with Kat and we knew her from the scene. I really wanted some fiddle the songs, so she plays quite traditional country fiddle on \u2018Lessons\u2019 and she does backing vocals on some tracks too,\u201d says Delves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n