HANA & JESSIE-LEE’S BAD HABITS
Sewing twang, lyrical wit and late-night musings into a country-soul heart, Hana and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits craft sauntering, hook-laden tapestries steeped in rock-and-roll swagger. Hana’s searing, sophisticated and effortlessly dexterous vocals pierce the core of songs rich in the very reasons why country-soul music is so affecting in the first place. What’s more, from reverb-drenched lustrous notes to striking twangy solos, no-one plays guitar quite like Jessie-Lee .
Since the release of their debut album Southlands in 2017, the pair have appeared live onstage at Tamworth Country Music Festival, WOMADelaide, Out On The Weekend, Brunswick Music Festival, Adelaide Guitar Festival, Dashville Skyline & Queenscliff Music Festival, relentlessly road testing and refining their live on stage sound.
Their highly anticipated second album Say What You Mean released in April 2024, grips you from the first note, with songs depicting everything from problematic relationships, to insomnia, to love and missing home.
Nothing is off limits when Jessie-Lee’s signature green Gretsch launches into one of her unmistakable ear-worm guitar lines that shimmers and jangles, only to be met with Hana’s brassy voice that is equal parts ache, twang and crackle. The long and short of it? Hana and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits are one for the ages. You’d better be in front of that stage.