Country Enough

About the Artist

After a year spent chasing her country music dream on the other side of the world, Melanie Dyer returns home with her most personal statement yet. Out now via ABC Music her third studio album Daisies From Dirt arrives alongside the bouncy new single, ‘Country Enough’. Written as an autobiographical soundtrack to the country roots that have followed Melanie from a farm in regional NSW all the way to Nashville, ‘Country Enough’ is a playful reminder that country isn't something you prove with a pair of Wranglers and a cowboy hat. “Country Enough feels like the perfect introduction to the album,” shares the singer-songwriter. Lyrically, it's an autobiographical soundtrack to who I am and what country is to me, so naturally I wrote this one on my own. Growing up on a farm, learning to drive in a paddock basher at age 10, and wearing homemade clothes, country has always run deep in my roots.” A powerhouse slice of polished pop-country, the track trades straight-up honky-tonk for a Sheryl Crow-meets-The Chicks energy, layering driving guitars over an edgy groove and a punchy hook-filled chorus. “The band had so much fun recording ‘Country Enough.’ It feels fitting that the music itself reflects the heart of the track - that country is whatever you make it.” It’s the perfect opening chapter for Daisies From Dirt, an album shaped during one of the biggest periods of change in Melanie’s life. As she packed her bags and moved halfway around the world to Nashville, her family back home was simultaneously closing a lifelong chapter of their own, selling the farm that raised her. Across ten tracks, the record finds beauty in that uncomfortable space between heartache and relief, homesickness and freedom – tracing the journey from the country kid who started writing songs at twelve to an artist building a life and career thousands of kilometres from home. For Melanie, Daisies From Dirt isn't simply a record about leaving home. It’s about discovering how much of it you carry with you. “If a stranger wanted to know who I am, this is the album I’d put in their hands. It’s grit-laced, heartfelt, and unapologetically 'country enough’ to me.”