Hannah Rae Lee Bets on Buckshot Records for Her Next Chapter

Hannah Rae Lee just signed to Buckshot Records, and she’s already cutting a new single. For an independent artist, that’s the kind of move that either becomes the turning point or becomes a line in a bio nobody reads. She’s betting on the former, and she’s got reasons.

The Nashville singer-songwriter writes pop with a country spine, the type of song that takes a rough patch and turns it into a hook you’re singing before you’ve clocked what she’s actually telling you. She points to Carrie Underwood, Danielle Bradbery, Avery Anna, and Kelsea Ballerini as the artists in her DNA, but Underwood is the one she keeps coming back to. What she admires isn’t the voice so much as the command, the way Underwood takes a stage and refuses to shrink. Lee tries to carry that into her own shows, which swing between full-volume pop and quieter, talk-to-the-room storytelling.

For her, the writing came first and everything else followed. Songwriting has been the compass since she started putting words to paper, and her earliest performances lit the fire that turned into a career. The songs she writes now circle truth and love while digging into the stuff most people would rather smooth over. She calls her music gritty emotional storytelling wrapped in clean production, and she treats each lyric as both a window into her own life and a way into someone else’s.

What she’s after isn’t a chart number. It’s the song that lands the first time and stays. That’s a hard thing to aim for in a genre full of artists chasing the same streams, but it tells you where her head is.

The Buckshot signing is the real news here, and Lee frames it as a genuine turning point. The pitch from an independent artist’s side is simple: most labels sand down the rough edges, and she says Buckshot doesn’t. In her words, it’s rare to find a partner who elevates what you’re doing while staying faithful to the stories you’re telling. They’re already deep in new material, with that single shaping up as the first real statement of the partnership.

Until it drops, the catalog does the talking. All That and You Say That, her single with Blackwell, is the clearest look at what she does, emotional weight and pop polish in the same three minutes. It works as both an introduction and a signpost for where she’s headed.

The new single is the one to watch, the first real test of what this partnership can do. She’s got a clear point of view, a label that says it shares it, and a stack of songs pulled straight from her own life. You can keep up on Spotify, YouTube, and Facebook. The songs have always done her talking, and the next one’s already on the way.