Minor Gold, Vixens Of Fall & Ashleigh Dallas: 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. 

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Minor Gold – Over You

In the whirlwind of just over a year, the duo of Tracy McNeil and Dan Parsons have toured Australia, the US and Canada, showcased at AmericanaFEST and Folk Alliance International, and were recently awarded the Queensland Music Award for Best Folk Artist. Over You was penned by Tracy’s late father, Wayne McNeil. Dan’s production perfectly captures the honesty and simplicity of the song, captured by just letting the lonesome heartache and yearning ring through without complicating the instrumentation.

Vixens Of Fall – Wild River

Wild River is the anticipated return of the Queensland sibling trio of Nina, Wren and Lulu. The song takes you on a mesmerising journey from the innocence of childhood to the vibrant, complex reality of adulthood. It invites you to reflect and immerse yourself in its depth.

Ashleigh Dallas – Love Still Has Something

The five-time Golden Guitar Award winner returns with the beautiful ballad, Love Still Has Something. The song was created as part of Sam Hawksley’s Song Club where she was given the prompt “Love Still Has” to write a song about. She wrote this just before her weekly song contribution to the group was due. Ashleigh says the song was written as a reminder to allow yourself to have more self-love in the hope it will bring inner harmony.

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