Photo Credit: Bethany Brook Showalter and Spencer Showalter

Sierra Hull has released “Spitfire,” the third preview single from her eagerly anticipated fifth studio album A Tip Toe High Wire that lends the project its name in a tribute to her grandmother.

“This song is for my Granny,” Hull said in a release. “She went through so much in her 80 years and there aren’t enough verses to express how she was truly tougher than ‘thorns on a brier.’” Hull’s latest sample of her first full-length release since 2020’s 25 Trips showcases her powerful gift for storytelling, communicating the spirit of her beloved forebear in a deep and emotionally nuanced guitar arrangement. “She was a beautiful, fiery woman who loved her family in the deepest of ways,” Hull shared. “When I need to find some extra strength in my own life, I remember her resilience.” 

“Spitfire” follows “Come Out Of My Blues” and “Boom,” which arrived earlier this year as Hull’s first original music since before the pandemic—save for singles, including irresistible covers of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World” and the Grateful Dead’s “Black Muddy River” in 2024. A Tip Toe High Wire is a landmark for Hull as her first self-produced and self-released album; Hull helmed production for the project alongside longtime collaborator and engineer Shani Gandhi, and rounded out the sound with contributions from her tried and true touring quartet: guitarist Shaun Richardson, fiddler Avery Merritt, bassist Erik Coveney and percussionist Mark Raudabaugh, who took their chemistry with Hull to the studio for the first time.

“​​In some ways, it feels like stepping out into a different territory,” Hull reflected on her first independently published offering.  “And leaning into that at this chapter of my career—the freedom of being able to be out on my own, to create with no walls for what feels like the first time—has helped me grow.”

A Tip Toe High Wire is available to pre-order and pre-save now. Watch the music video for “Spitfire” below and read on for the album’s full tracklist. For more information on Hull and her 2025 tour itinerary, including appearances on the first leg of Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Country Tour, visit sierrahull.com.

Read Hull’s recent Relix feature here.

A Tip Toe High Wire – Sierra Hull
1. Boom
2. Come Out Of My Blues
3. Muddy Water
4. Lord, That’s A Long Way
5. Spitfire
6. Let’s Go
7. Truth Be Told
8. E Tune
9. Red Bird
10. Haven Hill