Gatlin: 2026
Gatlin (photo by Gus Philippas, PR)
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Florida-born singer/songwriter Gatlin joined me in Studio A back in October to celebrate the release of her full-length debut, The Eldest Daughter.
The album has the scope and ambition of an artist wrestling their identity to the ground for the first time as an adult, and seeing Gatlin process these songs for one of her first major radio interviews was humbling and inspiring.
As with the songs on the record, our conversation did not shy away from the complex mosaic of influences the functioned as prologue the The Eldest Daughter, addressing the church, queer coming-of-age, and nuanced politics with the kind of polite defiance you might expect, well, from a farmer's daughter.
Guitarist Josh Halper joned Gatlin for this session.
[Recorded: 10/6/25. Engineered by Jim O'Hara with Erin Merriman and Nadia Garriga. Produced by Meghan Suma. Videographers: Nikki Phillips, Bella Lipayon and Lily Crean.]
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