Camille Trail, Michael Carpenter & Eloise Rayner: Highlights From This Week’s ‘Grass Roots’

Every week, ABC Country's Grass Roots program shines a light on the best independently released Australian country content. Selected from the hundreds of new tracks submitted, the one-hour program is now available on demand as well as premiering each Monday at 9pm on ABC Country, showing the health of Aussie country music across all its sub-genres. Here are four of this week's tracks you should have on your radar. 

Head here to have a listen to this week’s full episode of Grass Roots.

Camille Trail – Magic Trick

Now a resident of the Sunshine Coast, Camille Trail grew up on a cattle farm at Baralaba, west of Rockhampton. From a young age she immersed herself in music, eventually moving to Brisbane to attend the JMC Music Academy. She is a Golden Guitar Award nominee and has one of the most hauntingly beautiful sounds in Australian country music. Magic Trick is taken from Camille’s brand new EP of the same name.

Michael Carpenter & The Banks Brothers – Splitsville

The trio return with Zane Banks taking the lead on this country blues-tinged twanger, Splitsville. The song shows another side to their devotion to country music, leaning into their musical prowess while depicting the end of the road for a pair of lovers. Splitsville is a teaser to Michael Carpenter and The Banks Brothers’ fourth album together, due for release in September.

Eloise Rayner – Can You Still Feel Me Loving You

Can You Still Feel Me Loving You is the debut single from Sydney artist Eloise Rayner. A CMAA Academy of Country Music graduate, the song was crafted with seven other songwriters including Max Jackson, Lyn Bowtell and Courtney Keil. Although a fictional story, Eloise drew from personal experiences to channel the universal sentiment of unexpectedly encountering an ex-flame.

You can listen to the latest full episode of ABC Country’s Grass Roots here.