Marley Hale has been tearing up the resurgent Brooklyn country scene, part of the vanguard of post-COVID artists who are making things happen in the far reaches of Bushwick. On her new song “Dear Girl,” Hale gives a sleek, modern shine to trad country with this spaghetti-western-inspired ballad to her younger self.
“I wrote ‘Dear Girl,’ while staying out in the Mojave Desert in California,” she explains. “Writing it was a reckoning with the gap between the person I was and the person I wanted to be, at a time when that space felt impassible, and I couldn’t reconcile the two. It’s an address to myself, but it speaks more broadly to the shame that comes with that reckoning.”
You can pre-order Marle Hale’s upcoming EP By My Own Ways (out July 26th.)
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