Lola Kirke

Lola Kirke’s new album Trailblazer, produced by Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Sarah Jarosz), is out now via One Riot Records. On Trailblazer, Kirke trusts her instincts and embraces her roots.

It’s part of a trifecta of projects Kirke will put out into the world in 2025. Her debut book, a memoir-in-essays entitled Wild West Village (Simon and Schuster 2025) chronicling her dysfunctional upbringing in London and New York City, the highs and lows of her career as an actress in Hollywood and her unusual path to Nashville and country music, is out now. Kirke is also featured in Academy Award-nominated director Ryan Coogler’s forthcoming Sinners, out April 18th. Written during this extraordinary chapter of her life—juggling memoir drafts and movie shoots—Kirke poured herself into every lyric on Trailblazer. The album’s fearless blend of country, rock, and storytelling is grounded by production from GRAMMY-winning writer/producer Daniel Tashian (Kacey Musgraves, Sarah Jarosz).

For Trailblazer, Kirke also co-wrote with some of Nashville’s best songwriters – Liz Rose, Natalie Hemby, Ashley Monroe, Caitlin Rose, Jon Decious, Jason Nix and Delaney Ramsdell. And teaming up with Tashian helped Kirke to trust herself and her story on Trailblazer. Like Wild West Village, Trailblazer is full of stories from Kirke’s extraordinary life.

Deeply personal songs like “Easy on You,” about loving someone in the throes of addiction, or “2 Damn Sexy,” (co-written with Monroe) about loving yourself when society would have you feel otherwise. Even more subterranean yet are songs about Kirke’s family. On the introspective “Zeppelin 3,” Kirke reconciles with a strained paternal relationship. In “Mississippi, My Sister, Elvis and Me,” a romp of a song that weaves like a road movie, she sings about the pain and beauty of sister dynamics, unveiling themselves on the way to Graceland. With “Marlboro Lights and Madonna”, written with Hemby and frequent collaborator Nix, she makes an anthem for daughters of unconventional mothers everywhere. And she puts her own twist on classic tear-in-your-beer country songs with “241s” and lead single “Hungover Thinkin’,” co-written with Liz and Caitlin Rose.