There’s no slowing Abbie Ferris down. Maybe it’s the childhood spent riding horses on her family farm in Mallala, South Australia (population 600) that has given her urge to keep pushing forward, but the Golden Guitar nominated singer-songwriter is powering through another blockbuster year in 2025.

The new EP ‘Stockman’s Daughter’ sees Abbie step in a new level of maturity, self-assuredness and vulnerability. Opening with just Abbie’s voice and acoustic guitar, the opening title track (already an explosive live favourite) builds into a frenzy as she sings about her childhood riding horses on her family farm. ‘On My Way’, a co-write with Morgan Evans, is an autobiographical manifesto telling her story to date and taking it into the future. After debuting the song at her CMC Rocks set in March, ‘Bad for Business’ shot up the charts with its hard-charging 90s country-rock propulsion. Raunchy fiddle and guitars light up the raunchy ‘Tragic’, followed by fellow rising star Dylan Wright trades powerful smoky vocals on the sun-drenched duet ‘Stir It On Up’. The record closes with a heartbreaking classic country ballad ‘To Love Someone’, penned in Nashville with Jay Knowles (Lainey Wilson, George Strait).

Produced by long-time award-winning collaborator Michael Carpenter, the EP was recorded between Sydney and Nashville, featuring musicians including country legends Brent Mason (Brooks & Dunn, Shania Twain, Alan Jackson) and Chris McHugh (Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts), Lainey Wilson fiddle player Sav Madigan, Sheryl Crow drummer Fred Eltringham and pedal steel master Smokin’ Brett Resnick (Kacey Musgraves, Sierra Ferrell).

Abbie kicked off the year with a bang – a Golden Guitar nomination into a Countrytown Awards nomination, KIX Live in the Park into CMC Rocks QLD and officially showcasing at CMA Fest in June, a milestone reflecting how far her star has risen and her growing acceptance within the Nashville music community.

“I feel like I’ve come so far but I’ve got so many dreams still to chase”, she says. “I’m a stockman’s daughter, I know how to work hard and keep my feet on the ground, but I’ve also got my head in the sky and I never want to stop trying to take all of this to the next level.”

Words of encouragement from Lainey Wilson “keep holding on to what makes you stand out” when she met the superstar after they shared the bill at CMC Rocks helped push Abbie to embrace her raucous, emotional, scrappy sound – raunchy guitars, propulsive drums, lyrics that tell her story from small-town farmgirl to traveling the world, finding strength after heartbreak and delivering it all with the smoky passion in her voice. 

“I want my music to make people feel powerful, to help them heal from heartbreak, to be a woman young girls can look up to as someone making a path for themselves in a crazy world,” she says. “I want the energy I feel from the crowd when I’m up there on stage to come back to those people through my records, and I never want to stop trying to take all of this to the next level”.