Kaylee Bell: Nights Like This (2024)
Proof that hard work pays off when this album debuted at the top of the New Zealand music chart. And vindication for her genre of mainstream Nashville-styled country with its roots in populist Garth Brooks and Keith Urban more than the Hank Williams and The Carter-Cash family. Bell may write in the style – titles include Small Town Friday Nights, Take It To the Highway and Boots’n’All – but her gift is she sings as if she’s just discovered this, and the electrocountry of Life is Tough But So Am I pushes the boundaries neatly.
Next: Kasey Musgraves, Deeper Well; Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson, Wreck and Ruin; Tami Neilson, Chickaboom!
