Noeline Hofman

One Liner: Beautiful and basic country music with great lyrics and a Zach Bryan co-sign

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but country, Americana
Home: Canada

Saturday.

Thoughts: The Zach Bryan effect continues to pay dividends.  Her top song on Spotify, by a million miles, is a Zach Bryan duet called "Purple Gas."  You do one of those songs, and people notice for sure.  Her song though, which is pretty cool.  So, while that track has 39.9 million streams, the other six songs she has in her catalog have about 2.3 million when combined.  Here you go with the big hit.

Those fan generated videos like this are so strange - do these people send all of these clips directly to Bryan?  To his management company?  Weird.  Nice little tune though.  Funny though, I always thought that gas was red.  When I used to drive a diesel Jetta many years ago, my old man had a tanks of dyed Ag Diesel, that I would absolutely fill up on every time I went to his place.  No policeman was going to check the tank of a little squirt of a Jetta, so take that Mr. Taxman!  Suck it!

According to a YouTube video about how to pronounce that name it is like no-ee-lean.  But when you hear her say it herself, it is no-lean.  She country as hell, y'all.

I have tried and failed to type her name just about every way that is possible.  No Wikipedia, very little about her out there that is simple to find.  The Rolling Stone article about her is blurred out so that I can't read it, but if she is getting RS attention then that is something.  Her label says she is a 20 year old from the Badlands of Southern Alberta, Canada who is currently on tour with Charley Crockett and Wyatt Flores.  Those are some solid compatriots!  Even without knowing much about her background, I will say that her sound is impeccable.  Great lyrics, great voice, just a really nice thing to hear in my earholes all day.

One story is that she was enjoying breakfast at home on the morning of Canadian Thanksgiving when her phone blew up.  "@zachlanebryan mentioned you in their story," and the rest is history.  Once that tag lands, the people swarm.  And they should, this is really good.  The other song with the most streams so far is "August," with just over a million streams.

Makes me think of those old school cowboy songs like Don Edwards would sing with a discussion of harvest time and taking care of the herd.  Basic and beautiful.  I would absolutely go see this live.  I'm not saying she will be the Sierra Ferrell of this year, but I could see my friend group having a similar reaction to this as they did to that last year.