Most country acts don't find overnight success the way Noeline Hofmann has. After toiling in near obscurity in the late 2010s and early 2020s, her career trajectory shifted when one of the genre's biggest superstars covered one of her songs, offering her a larger platform to showcase her thoughtful ruminations on small-town rural life.
Born in the Canadian province of Alberta in 2003, Hofmann dreamed of writing and singing Western and Americana songs like musical idols Colter Wall or Charley Crockett, and even spent some time in local honky tonks in her teens doing just that....