Hamilton’s Kristin Nicholls Band Returns with Nation Anthem “One Extra Spherical”
With a chilly drink in a single hand and a lifetime of tales within the different, the Kristin Nicholls Band is able to elevate the roof — and your spirits — with their prime video nation anthem “One Extra Spherical.” Out now at nation radio and streaming in every single place, the monitor is a full-throttle, feel-good name to the dancefloor, full with line-dance vitality, soul-saving choruses, and one foot firmly within the honky-tonk.
However don’t be fooled — this isn’t simply one other get together track. For frontman Kristin Nicholls, this monitor is the results of a private comeback story that’s extra Nashville than Hollywood.
“I bought sober… and launched a enjoyable ingesting track,” Nicholls laughs. “There’s some irony there. However this track is about pleasure. About celebration. About giving your self permission to simply dwell once more.”
Kristin’s journey by way of habit, divorce, and redemption performs like a rustic ballad in its personal proper. Following an advanced custody battle and a battle with habit, Nicholls turned his life round — embracing sobriety, reconnecting with religion, and dropping 70 kilos with the assistance of CrossFit and remedy. Now, he brings that vitality to One Extra Spherical — a monitor that’s equal elements get together and goal.
The Kristin Nicholls Band contains Kristin Nicholls on lead vocals and guitar, Luke Cronsberry on lead guitar and vocals, Ryan Barwin on pedal metal guitar, banjo, and dobro, Allen Bilston on drums, and Scott Marsh on bass guitar and vocals. Collectively, they bring about years of stage expertise and a love for nation storytelling rooted in gospel, rock and roll, and the real-life grit that defines their sound.
Produced by Jordan Honsinger (with earlier work in each Nashville and Hamilton), One Extra Spherical blends fashionable nation manufacturing with the rootsy storytelling followers love. The writing workforce — Nicholls, Cronsberry, and Honsinger — steered away from clichés and leaned into vivid scenes, catchy hooks, and a playful barroom spirit.
Lyrics like this say all of it: “Flip the lights on, flip the night time on / Flip on the amplifiers / Get your boots on, put a transfer on / Let’s mild this ground on hearth.”
The one follows three earlier songs that acquired airplay throughout Canada, together with SiriusXM’s Prime of the Nation. For those who love artists like Brothers Osborne, Kip Moore, Eric Church, or the swagger of Chris Stapleton, you’ll really feel proper at dwelling with KNB’s prime video providing.
Kristin Nicholls Band is hitting their stride — with the stage set, the amps fired up, and the group already two-stepping. And with “One Extra Spherical,” they’re inviting you to affix the get together.
Hello Kristin! Good to satisfy you! Care to introduce your self to the readers for these not accustomed to your music?
We’re a 6-piece nation/rock band from Hamilton, Ontario. We made the transition into nation music in 2023. All of us grew up on rock and gospel music, however in the course of the Covid years, I began listening to extra & extra nation music and shortly fell in love with the hauntingly lovely sounds of the pedal metal guitar, the percussiveness of the banjo, and particularly the storytelling of the songwriters.
“One Extra Spherical” is full of get together vitality, nevertheless it comes from a deeply private place. What impressed you to put in writing a celebration anthem after getting sober?
I really like high-energy music, though it hasn’t all the time been straightforward for me to put in writing it. There are a variety of widespread themes in nation music songs. Having a drink & having fun with a celebration appear to be on the high of the listing. I’ve been lucky sufficient to have such a supportive band that inspired me by way of my journey of getting sober. I needed to have enjoyable on stage, so we got down to write a celebration vitality track, full of visuals within the video of getting a drink & line dancing.
You’ve talked brazenly about your journey by way of habit, divorce, and finally, redemption. How have these experiences formed your songwriting and efficiency fashion?
As songwriters, our experiences finally form what we write about. We wish the viewers to attach with what we’re singing, whether or not or not it’s whiskey, ladies, or our religion. We’ve got a variety of vitality & emotion after we carry out. Our hope is that the listener feels inspired & has a variety of enjoyable within the course of.
How did your bandmates contribute to shaping the spirit of “One Extra Spherical”? What was the vitality like within the studio with Jordan Honsinger producing?
This track was a little bit of a brand new sound for us. We did that purposefully. From Luke’s raunchy guitar to Ryan’s banjo rolls retaining that vitality excessive, we got down to document a track that might be enjoyable to carry out dwell for us and thrilling for the listeners. We hope we will get some line dancers going every time we carry out it!
There’s a powerful sense of goal behind the enjoyable on this track. What do you hope listeners take away from it, particularly those that could be struggling themselves?
Simply because somebody will get sober, doesn’t imply’t imply that they’ll’t have enjoyable anymore, I’m residing proof of that! Our hope is that if somebody is combating habit that they’ve the braveness to ask for assist. The stigma behind habit or psychological well being isn’t what it as soon as was. There are such a lot of assets on the market at this time that may assist. When listeners hear our track, please drop us a line & inform us your individual tales of battle & redemption. Come share with us at a present. We’re stronger collectively!