Kacy Hill has returned with a new single entitled “Please Don’t Cry,” a hint at the sound she’s been honing as she approaches her next era of music. The gorgeous acoustic number begins with fingerpicked guitar, pedal steel, and string swells, suggesting an uncharted old-school country direction for Hill. The falsetto is airy but still packs a punch, floating above the instrumental like a lone cloud on a sunny day.
“‘Please Don’t Cry’ was written on a weird feeling October day,” Hill explains. “I was wearing boots, and after trying to find chords that would stick to no avail, I sang a goofy twangy melody with the lyrics ‘My feeet get hot, I take my boots off every chance I got.’ We then realized I had unintentionally written a tremendous chorus melody, and the rest of the song fell out of me right after, lyrics and all.”
Check out that tremendous chorus melody (and the rest of the song—also tremendous) below, and read our 2024 interview with Hill here.
