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For the reason that launch of 2024’s Songs to a Wild God, prairie people songstress Mallory Chipman has been sharing her tales and songs stay throughout Canada, with over 100 exhibits underneath her belt.
From festivals and membership venues to an official showcase on the world’s greatest people music convention, Folks Alliance Worldwide, Chipman has wowed audiences repeatedly together with her cinematic folk-rock sound, cementing her status as one in all Western Canada’s strongest musical voices.
However it hasn’t all been sunshine and rainbows.
After a winter 2025 tour, Chipman returned house to search out her home trashed and broken by a trespasser. Distressed and shaken, she was struck by the dangers and gravity of being away from house so usually. Positive, she was making a model of house on the highway — however the expertise made her understand simply how essential it’s to have a secure touchdown place.
That second, paired together with her touring life, sparked the writing of her site audience single, “Highway Tune,” releasing on all streaming companies Monday, July 21, 2025.
Fittingly recorded whereas on tour throughout a time off in Winnipeg, “Highway Tune” is a touching and uncooked ballad, with a mild pulse that hums like a automobile on the freeway and vulnerability that lays naked an trustworthy depiction of highway life — the mundane, the troublesome, and the superbly tender.
That includes Brett Hansen on guitar and Lindsay Woolgar on bass, Mallory’s vocals and tenor guitar are supported with refined musical sensitivity that takes listeners on a journey together with her on the highway.
“I’ll by no means take as a right the way it feels to sleep in my very own mattress,” says Mallory, whose tour lodging vary from lodges and motels to crashing on couches — and even in her automobile.
“Some individuals assume tour is all glamorous. I’ve even heard from some those who it ‘appears to be like like trip.’ Generally you’re effectively taken care of with nice hospitality; different instances, you’re staying in your mother’s cousin’s childhood buddy’s son’s twin mattress in a space-themed bed room made for a nine-year-old boy. And hey — I’m simply grateful for anyplace I get to put my head. However I can attest that whereas it has its enjoyable moments of journey, or, if we’re fortunate, rest, it’s a ton of labor.”
Regardless of all of it, Chipman notes that her love for enjoying stay by no means wavers.
“There’s really nothing that makes me really feel in my goal greater than connecting with individuals by means of music — whether or not from up on the stage, or throughout the treasured moments after the present. That’s what ‘Highway Tune’ is about: the peaks, the valleys, and all of the issues in between that make up life on the highway.”
Catch Mallory Chipman on tour this summer time all through Alberta, BC, Ontario, and Quebec, with fall tour dates to be introduced quickly. Full present particulars and tickets can be found at mallorychipmanmusic.com/tour.
The video accompanying “Highway Tune” was shot stay in-studio throughout the recording session at No Enjoyable Membership in Winnipeg, Manitoba by Brodie Parahoniak. The recording was engineered by Aaron Bartel and combined/mastered by Scott Franchuk. “Highway Tune” was written and produced by Mallory Chipman.