08/08/2025, 08:00 PM CDTEmily Nenni
Emily Nenni has emerged as one of the freshest and most electrifying voices in Nashville, with a sound rooted in classic honky-tonk and spiked with serious country, soul and rock 'n' roll fire, and sweet-and-sassy lyrics that chronicle hard living, heartbreak and other universal truths about the human condition. Over the past few years she's enraptured audiences across Music City (and the nation with near-constant touring alongside Charley Crockett, Kelsey Waldon, 49 Winchester, and more) with sizzling sets in smoky bars and clubs, honing her command of the stage, perfecting her skills as a band leader and sharpening an already astute world view, all of which are on full display on her newest studio album, Drive & Cry. Drive & Cry drops the listener smack in the middle of Emily Nenni's boisterous and bustling Nashville world and features an array of unreleased tracks which will surely blossom into fan-favourites before too long, such as ‘Lay of the Land’, ‘I Don't Need You’ and ‘Changes’. Drive & Cry follows her critically acclaimed 2022 long player On the Ranch, which Holler said put “her firmly in the ring with any other heavyweight country contender looking to lift that title belt.” No Depression called the album “a barnburner” while the Nashville Scene called it “an irresistible vintage-country masterwork.”
