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Two from her new LP, a 1975 cover, and a special guest—live in Nashville

Ingrid Andress dropped her highly anticipated, critically acclaimed sophomore album Good Person in August 2022, and now the rising country star is celebrating that release with a special Apple Music Session recorded at Apple Music’s Nashville studio. Across three tracks—Good Person singles “Feel Like This” and “Wishful Drinking” (featuring Sam Hunt), as well as a cover of The 1975’s “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”—Andress shows the breadth of her abilities, seamlessly alternating between performing solo at her piano and fronting her live band.

On “Feel Like This,” Andress and her band deliver an arena-worthy performance complete with a stellar, dynamic vocal from Andress and a larger-than-life rhythm section. Thematically, “Feel Like This” is a snapshot of the early days of starting to fall for a new crush, as Andress tells Apple Music. “I wanted it to feel like you're falling in love, even if most love songs are like, ‘We've known each other forever and we're married and you're hot,’” she says. “And I'm like, ‘Okay, well, I can't relate to that, but I can relate to the process.’ To me, if it's healthy, I feel like you're slowly falling.”

Sam Hunt, a close friend of Andress, stops by her session to join her on the heart-wrenching ballad “Wishful Drinking,” reprising his performance from the album version of the hit single. Though Andress and Hunt were more likely to meet in a writing room, as Andress tells Apple Music the two actually met in a far more organic way: playing rec league kickball. “It was completely natural, which I feel like is very rare in the artist world, because there's always, like, ‘Oh, you should go hang out with that person, and then we can take a photo and then post it,’” she says. “And I'm like, ‘I'm so not that person,’ so the fact that it happened organically is probably why we are singing together, because it's really tough for me to just pretend to vibe with somebody.”

Andress rounds out her set by confidently leaving her comfort zone with “If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know),” a playfully faithful cover of the groove-heavy fan-favourite track off The 1975’s 2020 album Notes on a Conditional Form. Andress, who is known for experimenting with techniques and instruments that aren’t always associated with country music, considers the British indie-pop band an influence. “The 1975 is probably one of my favourite bands, because I feel like, as a producer on my own stuff, I appreciate all of their technical things that they do on their albums, like the vocoder,” Andress says. “That influenced me on ‘Good Person’ and ‘How Honest Do You Want Me to Be?’”

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