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Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Nathan Evans Fox (March 2026)

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Nathan Evans Fox had his debut at the Berlin Country To Country in 2026. Right after his last set, I had the opportunity to chat with him in the hotel lobby. Of course, we did not only chat about his first shows in Germany, but his upcoming album Heirloom, which will be available on 29th May 2026. Hope you enjoy my chat with him.

 

Spotlight – Flyctory.com meets Nathan Evans Fox

FLYC: How did it feel coming to Berlin for the C2C – and even being the first artist on Friday overall?

Nathan: It felt good. Yeah, it’s been interesting. I’m kicking off a touring season this year, and this is really the first thing I’ve done at the beginning of my touring season. And before that, we had a kid, so we have a new baby, two months old, and so that means we’ve been sick and very tired. And so really, I haven’t been able to play much music the last two months. So I feel like I’ve gotten back into my groove being here and remembering that I’ve got these songs. It’s been good. Kicking off C2C feels right because I feel like I’m kicking off my year as well.

FLYC: It Is your first time at the C2C in Berlin. How was the feeling about getting into a new country and meeting the people here?

Nathan: I’ve never been to Germany before. It’s been great. The folks have been super friendly. Kenny Foster who kind of brought me here to be part of Sad Song Society had told me that folks would really listen and he wasn’t kidding. It’s been cool and I enjoyed it.

And also just getting to meet people is always, that’s half the fun of doing these things. Because you get to meet other musicians and other folks who love music. And you just get to make buddies and neighbors, which has been cool.

FLYC: You mentioned the Sad Song Society, so you played with Kenny and Tylor Sjostrom. How did you get into that kind of thing?

Nathan: Well, Kenny and I met a couple years ago at a music conference, and I think we both just really resonated. Kenny writes really, really honest songs. I don’t think Kenny says a lot in his songs, and that’s something that I also really try to do. When you’re writing songs, it’s pretty easy to kind of… exaggerate the truth a bit. You know, everybody does a little bit, but I really try to say exactly what needs to be said and to say it as truthfully as I can. I think Kenny does too and so we kind of met I think around that shared sense. This is what it should be so we kind of were kindred spirits in that way. Obviously, Sad Song Society is a special part of the C2C, and it’s also got some sort of die-hard fans, I guess.

FLYC: How do you feel, would that concept also work, for example, in Nashville or in other festivals?

Nathan: Yeah, I think it does. I think part of what’s interesting too is that in country music, the sad songs, as Kenny points out, they do tend to be the deep cuts. the really sad and painfully honest ones. And so, there’s so much room for it in Nashville. There’s so much room for it in other places. And also there’s a special place for it in the genre because it gets framed and contextualized differently. Kenny always says, especially he and also Tyler, they are part of the furniture of the festival already. Kenny has been there from the very beginning.

FLYC: So, what did they tell you about Sad Song Society in Berlin and also the festival?

Nathan: It’s cool that there’s a place for it, like a special kind of place that’s been saved. I like thinking that Kenny Foster is a staple, like he’s an institution, as is Tyler. It says to me that there’s a place, there’s an understanding of the genre and of the depth and the breadth of the genre that I really appreciate about the way that C2C Berlin has been put on.

FLYC: How did you choose the songs you decided to play here in Berlin, then?

Nathan: Well, some of them are just the ones that I play anyway. The ones for the Sad Song Society, a couple Kenny had requested because he likes a couple of them. And then also just thinking about what my saddest songs are. Thinking about what’s going to deliver the most punch. A lot of the songs that I’m playing now also kind of center on the new record I’m going to be putting out in May. They also center on who I am now in this phase of life and the kind of message I want to be driving towards in my songs. So, my set has really kind of crystallized around more of a sense of grief and anger and kind of social awareness.

FLYC: You had the three appearances at the Sad Song Society. On the other end you had three solo sets. Is there one of those, also because you also mentioned your new album, which is more important to you?

Nathan: I’ve realized that more of my songs aren’t as sad as they used to. I used to write only sad songs. And I’ve realized that I’ve been writing fewer sad songs. I said this in the last one, but… I realize that a lot of my sadness has kind of metabolized into anger, too. And so there’s a kind of a light meanness, a certain bitterness to the things that I’m writing now that are still an expression of grief and of concern and care, but they’re coming out a little bit differently as I, honestly, as I just get older. I’m just like, I’m a mad dad now, I guess. I don’t know.

FLYC: You just completed the six sets here in Berlin, so you also have a bit of a comparison of how people react to music, react to your songs in North America and over here in Europe and in Germany. Did you feel any difference about it?

Nathan: I’m still feeling out and reflecting on it. One thing that is interesting for me is that I write very regionally and colloquially, and a lot of my references don’t even make it a state over, like they’re not even understood. So it’s been really interesting. It’s been interesting to see how people respond positively. Um, even though I don’t know how many people grow okra or are familiar with okra as a plant, even though it’s a big theme of mine. That’s a plant in the U.S., it pretty much can only grow in the South. So even then I take the songs up North and they don’t totally understand what I’m saying. So I’m still kind of feeling it out. But it’s been good though.

I always love seeing how people respond to things because so much of making songs is about connecting with people. And so… If there’s a kind of difference that I need to figure out how to work through, it’s always good to see what that is and to feel out how better I can reach folks.

FLYC: You mentioned your album, Heirloom, coming out in May. So what can you already tell us about it?

Nathan: it’s a record about becoming a dad and losing my dad in the same year. So thinking about the kind of turnover of the seasons, about who I need to be as a father, about what I’ve learned about fatherhood from my dad, what I don’t want to keep from what he modeled for me and what I do want to carry on. So it’s about that kind of celebration of new life and also the grief of losing someone and experiencing them side by side. Thus, it’s an album that is very sad and very honest and also very fun, because it was all highs and lows. In the season where I was writing that, there was nothing that was just kind of normal. Everything was really great or really hard. And so the record is also really happy or really sad

FLYC: The leading single has been Lots of Beginnings. So what’s, for example, that song about?

Nathan: I like to write songs, or I like to write records in a way that feels like a kind of book where there’s a beginning and an end and there’s thematic development and they kind of sync. And so I had written, I was writing the closing track of the record and just kept writing the outro and kept writing it and it became its own song. And that song ended up being the intro track. And it’s really a wish for my kid, for what it means to enter the world. To enter the world not as a blank slate, but with an inheritance. To enter the world with a sense of family and place. So yeah, that’s really what it is. And part of the thing that I think is so cool about it is that it loops back in so if you listen to the outro track it loops back in so it feels like a kind of self-contained heirloom.

FLYC: Maybe last one: so you know explored Germany a bit in these three days three days a bit Is there anything you especially liked about Berlin or anything also you felt particularly strange and different about Germany?

Nathan: I’m going to be honest, I wish I could have seen more. I had so many friends who love Berlin, and they sent me like 20 recommendations of places to go. And by and large, I’ve been playing music, which I’m very glad to do.

I hope to come back and get… Like, if I were to do this again, I would plan some extra days so that I can really see the city and see Germany. And I hope I’ll be back to Berlin. But I’ve mostly just played and hung out here. So it’s been great. I mean, folks have been so friendly. I always feel a little out of place going to a new country because I just don’t know the customs. I don’t know the language. I tried hard. I spent two years on Duolingo trying to learn German. And then I found out that Duolingo is, like, the worst way to learn a language. But the folks have been great, and it’s been really cool to get to know people. And it’s true, it’s a stereotype, but the beer is so good. It’s so good. It has sabotaged my playing a little bit, though.

 

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