Have Lola Kirke, Courtney Marie Andrews and Jess Williamson Secretly Formed an Americana Supergroup with Cornelia Murr and Katie Pearlman?

The Summer is almost over and all we have to look back on are the sweet memories we made along the way. Five women who seemed to have had a particularly unforgettable one were singer songwriters and general all round absolute bloody legends Lola Kirke, Courtney Marie Andrews, Jess Williamson, Cornelia Murr and Katie Pearlman, who teased their followers and unlocked a whole new level of sleepover goals with a string of cryptic posts on their socials after a trip to Waccabuc, New York.

Although it's not clear what exactly the infamous five were doing up there, we've followed a trail of sourdough breadcrumbs and fag butts looking for clues. Could this be our new favourite country americana supergroup? Could there be a whole album on the way? Could they just have gone up there to goof about and burn stuff? Only time will tell.

Amongst photos and videos of them driving through the breathtaking scenery in a red convertible, playing tennis, building campfires, going out for dinner and wild swimming, they're was also some serious (and perhaps not so serious) songwriting happening.

"Highly recommend going to the country and accidentally writing half an album with four amazing women," Courtney Marie Andrews wrote on her Instagram.

"Tommy forever," Lola Kirke posted slightly more cryptically.

"Lola took us to heaven and we wrote five songs," Jess Williamson, who makes up one half of country indie superduo Plains with Katie Crutchfield AKA Waxahatchee, wrote on her own post.

"I spent the week with some remarkable ladies..." wrote Katie Pearlman on her socials, having also popped up on Lola Kirke's socials in May with songwriter Kate York performing a newly written song, 'Cowboy Junkie.'

"It isn’t every day you find yourself in a house upstate with girls that are not only smart AND talented, but more importantly, incredibly hot," she joked about the songwriting trip she took with Kirke, Courtney Marie Andrews, Jess Williamson and Cornelia Murr in August.

Luckily, Pearlman - a Grammy-nominated songwriter who has written hits for Kelly Clarkson, Sabrina Carpenter and Grace Potter among others, and whose recent single 'Takeout Food and Telephones' has been on repeat in the Holler offices these last few months - also wrote extensively about the trip on her Substack, which you can read and sign up to here.

"My dear friend, Lola Kirke, had the magical idea of gathering 5 girls for a writing retreat at her mother’s in upstate NY," wrote Katie Pearlman on her Substack. "I am not sure how she picked us specifically (I swear to god this woman could be a killer publisher if she wanted to be), but her discernment was spot on, as the alchemy was clearly palpable from night one."

"There were no ground rules going into the retreat," she continued. "Some of us are writer writers and some of us just focus on music, but it was unclear what mediums we would be working with and if we would be collaborating or going our separate ways. Surely five people is far too many to co write with - I told myself. I had written in big groups before at writing camps and it never went well. Typically, at least in pop songwriting rooms, more than four people is code for disaster. It’s simply too many egos to please, too many different opinions, tastes and personalities. But this was so, so, SO different, and clearly not the case with this group of women."

"On night one we broke the seal fast," Pearlman writes. "Not only with wine and tequila, but also by spilling our guts. We confessed our relationship anxieties, career fears, and familial woes. I felt so seen and safe that I cried the first night at the dinner table whilst talking about my father… Little did we know, it was conversations like these that would set the table for the future songs we’d be writing later in the week. Every sentiment miraculously made it into the music."

"With every song we wrote - with every deep conversation we had- with every hilarious, stupid joke we made - I had this overwhelming sense of gratitude," she wrotes. "This feeling that this is exactly where I am supposed to be. Making art with like minded women. Having fun, philosophizing, creating, fucking around. It was so, so inspiring to be around such singular, different artists, not to mention in such a gorgeous environment. I am, and always have been, a big believer in place. I feel it can inform so much of what we create- and Lola’s mothers was truly a character in the story we wrote this past week."

"I hope in the future you will hear these songs we made," she finished by writing. "But for now I will just have to tease you with photos!"

We hope so too! Not since Amanda Shires, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby and Maren Morris first hinted at the Highwomen have we been this excited about a group of singers and songwriters working together.

"Thank you for sharing your minds n hearts. Happy lions gates, mates," Cornelia Murr wrote on her socials alongside her own slide show of the retreat.

It's not currently clear what form the project will take or whether Courtney Marie Andrews will be drumming on the recordings, as she was in one video posted to socials, or if Lola Kirke lip syncing along to Eddie Murphy's 1982 classic 'Boogie in Your Butt' is in any way related to the project, but we're here for it whatever it is that comes out of it.

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