Muso’s bucket list inspires latest release

OFF the back of winning the Regional Queensland Music Award for Bring It All Back, Cairns musician Leanne Tennant is set to release the fourth single Till the Sun Dies from her forthcoming album Happiness Is ... which is due out later this year.

The award will be joining an ever-growing trophy room including two Queensland Music Awards in the blues and roots category for previous tracks Gentle Annie and Bearing the Crown in 2017 and 2015.

Tennant was also a semi finalist in the International Songwriting Competition in 2019 and won the prestigious Carol Lloyd Award in 2018.

The first three singles of her new album Cherry Cola, Bring It All Back and Everspin gained a wave of praise, including being added to Double J, producers pick on the BBC, 4ZZZ’s best new arrivals and many spins on Triple J.

Tennant was also featured on RAGE’s Wild Ones, nominated for the Grant McLennan Fellowship and was being played on all British Airways flights.

Tennant says she wrote the new track when she was thinking about her bucket list and all the things she’d like to start crossing off it.

“At the top of the list is my desire to surf,” she says.

“I’ve wanted to surf for as long as I remember but I’ve never gotten around to it, and in that time have also become a bit scared of sharks.

“I’ve always imagined how incredible the feeling must be though, being at one with the ocean, the sky and the pull of the tide, and can understand why people become so addicted to it once they learn. Till The Sun Dies is one of my favourite tracks off the record and my favourite song to play live.

“Whenever I play it I get a sea of pinks, reds, and blues circulating through my mind like a private sunset just for me. This might just be the year I learn to surf.”

The song and album are set to be released this year.