The Band Loula is sharing their major-label debut track, “Don’t Call Me,” today via Warner Music Nashville (LISTEN HERE). Written by the duo’s Malachi Mills and Logan Simmons alongside acclaimed singer/songwriter, Dave Barnes, the song serves as a perfect introduction to the swampy and haunting acoustic spirit found in their instantly transfixing country sound.
"We wrote ‘Don’t Call Me’ as a true southern duet and love ballad with our talented friend Dave Barnes,” explains the band. “It’s our first major label release, so we wanted to make our first footprint powerful and soulful. The emotion between the two of us builds throughout the entire song, making for a push and pull that displays our long history of chemistry together."
Two best friends, each an artist in their own right, Mills and Simmons sought to evoke a new aesthetic that embodies the soil and grit of North Georgia. Raw harmonies, signature chemistry and a hard-touring ethos has infused the duo – currently in the studio with Grammy-winning Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne -- with an electricity that’s charged with desire, betrayal and yearning.
Their soulful song-forward approach to music offers a very real, very now sound for people who like their country straight up and real. Having spent the year touring with artists like Brothers Osborne, Ash