Mason Lively w/Special Guest Caroline Hale

Austin, TX based Country/Americana artist Mason Lively has a sound that’s simple yet complex, easy-feeling but gritty and weathered, inspiring yet heartbreaking. It’s no stretch to say that there’s a song for every emotion in Mason Lively’s catalog.
Born in Victoria, Texas, but raised just outside of town in the rural community of Inez, Mason grew up in a country music atmosphere. Though he enjoyed and was exposed to many types of music, he would obsessively listen to artists far beyond his years, like Willie Nelson, The Eagles, and Merle Haggard to name a few. Growing up, while also being influenced by Pop, Folk, Soul, Blues, and Classic Rock, Mason started to take interest and study the songwriting of artists from his home state’s music scene. Mason claims that song-writing "snuck up on him" around then.
Years later, with the release of his 2018 debut album “Stronger Ties”, Lively and his band hit the road, touring all over Texas and the regional south, while opening up for Country music’s biggest stars. Lively then released his sophomore self-titled album on March 19th, 2021, Co-produced by Wade Bowen. Songs from that album, including “Love Ain’t Done A Damn Thing”, have accumulated millions of listens and streams. Mason released his 3rd record, “Burn The Ground”, on July 12, 2024. The title track, “Burn The Ground” was also featured in season 2 of the hit show “Landman” on Paramount+.

With no disrespect intended, maturity is not a quality a music fan might expect from a debut album - let alone one made by an artist who’s only twenty-one years old. But for BFF, the first album by Austin-based singer/songwriter Caroline Hale, maturity is exactly what you get. With its emotional sophistication, textured production, and impressive degree of pure craft, BFF sounds more like an album made by a veteran with decades of experience, rather than a young person venturing into the music marketplace for the first time.With its mature outlook, keen songcraft, and artistic self-confidence, Caroline Hale’s BFF heralds the arrival of a major young talent, one who intends to be around for a long time. “Music is the only thing in my life that I’ve known I wanted to do,” she notes with conviction. “I was so determined and headstrong about it, that there was never a single doubt in my mind. Regardless of success, I knew I wanted to do music, whatever that meant.”

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