Search This Blog

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

ACL 2025: Fancy Hagood

 Friday at 1:30pm on the BMI stage.  According to this Variety article:

Hagood grew up in small-town Arkansas, and left for Nashville in the late 2000s to launch himself into stardom. Soon after, he came out as gay, which proved a barrier to his ambitions, in spite of how he showcased his rippling tenor voice and gift for crafting stirring, ardent melodies on stages and in songwriting sessions alike. He’s spent almost half of his 33 years confronting the narrow imagination of the music industry, not only in the country realm, but the pop mainstream too.  

It also says:

Hagood drifted toward pop, touring with artists like Ariana Grande, because he "got sidetracked by people not being able to see someone like me, a queer, flamboyant dude, being successful in country music." Now he's bravely and unabashedly back on the Nashville track.

"Forest" is a nice acoustic love song. 

This is good. Chill sound. Sweet video, too.


No comments: