Alabama-based Australian country artist Lucie Tiger turns up the heat with her latest single \u201cCowboy Love Me,\u201d a honky-tonk fuelled getaway fantasy bursting with flirtation, neon lights, whiskey shots and just enough cowboy swagger to cause trouble. Set beneath Texas moonlight and across dusty dance floors, the track transforms temptation into an irresistible country two-step.\u000f\u000fWritten by Lucie Tiger O\u2019Connor, Mark Benton Narmore, Stephanie C. Brown and Maddye Trew, Cowboy Love Me flips the traditional country narrative on its head\u2014putting the woman firmly in charge of the adventure.\u000f\u000f\u201cI wanted this song to feel like that electric moment when you lock eyes with someone across a crowded bar and think, \u2018Well\u2026 this could get interesting,\u2019\u201d says Lucie Tiger. \u201cIt\u2019s flirtation, sassy confidence, and a little trouble wrapped up in one night.\u201d\u000f\u000f\u201cSo many country songs are about cowboys riding off into the sunset. I thought, what if the girl gets to choose the adventure this time? That\u2019s where \u2018Cowboy Love Me\u2019 came from\u2014she\u2019s bold, she\u2019s fun, and she knows exactly what she wants.\u201d\u000f\u000f\u201cIt started as Maddye and I joking about how we still hadn\u2019t found \u2018our cowboy\u2019\u2014and then we realized we\u2019d written a whole song about the fantasy of one walking straight into our arms in a honkytonk.\u201d\u000f\u000fNow based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama since 2023, Lucie Tiger continues to carve out a powerful space in the heartland of American music. Described by CountryTown as \u201cshowing the world what independent country artists can achieve on their own terms,\u201d her momentum continues to build on both sides of the Pacific.\u000f\u000fIn November 2025, Lucie Tiger won Country Vocalist of the Year at the 11th Annual Josie Music Awards , held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. That same year, she celebrated her eighth single on the Music Row Country Breakout Chart with Harvest Moon\u2014an unprecedented achievement for an independent Australian country artist.\u000f\u000fTo date, Lucie Tiger has earned one Top 20 single, three Top 40 singles, and two Top 20 albums in Australia. Almost all her charting releases are self-penned, including standout tracks Found My Home (#50) and Everybody Knows Your Name (#53).\u000f\u000fHer 2025 single \u201cHarvest Moon\u201d also garnered her first international review from legendary country music author and critic Robert K. Oermann, who praised the song as \u201ca twanging murder ballad with a wicked, thumping, up-tempo kick\u201d. The track enjoyed extended airplay across both Australia and the United States, and in the same year, Lucie Tiger was the only country music artist to receive an APRA AMCOS Women in Music Award.\u000f\u000fA prolific and award-winning songwriter, Lucie Tiger won Country Blues Song of the Year for Gasoline at the 2021 Tamworth Country Songwriters Awards, alongside numerous Top 5 songwriting accolades. She has performed extensively across Muscle Shoals and Nashville, playing countless songwriter rounds and notable venues including Whiskey Jam, where she opened for Tyler Farr, and the W.C. Handy Festival, where she played the opening night two years running.\u000f\u000fNamed among Music Connection Magazine\u2019s Top 25 New Music Critiques (2024), Lucie Tiger\u2019s sound has been described as \u201ca crowd-pleasing blend of classic 1970s Southern rock, contemporary country grit, and Crossroads blues\u201d Country Music News International.\u000f\u000fAlong with the release of Cowboy Love Me, Lucie heads into 2026 with momentum, recently announced as a Top 5 Finalist in the Tamworth Songwriting Awards for her previous single Harvest Moon.\u000f\u000fWith Cowboy Love Me, Lucie Tiger delivers a bold, confident anthem that proves the future of independent country music is fearless, fun\u2014and firmly in her hands.\u000f\u000f\u201cCowboy Love Me\u201d will be serviced to radio and all streaming platforms on Friday 9th January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alabama-based Australian country artist Lucie Tiger turns up the heat with her latest single \u201cCowboy Love Me,\u201d a honky-tonk fuelled getaway fantasy bursting with flirtation, neon lights, whiskey shots and just enough cowboy swagger to cause trouble. Set beneath Texas moonlight and across dusty dance floors, the track transforms temptation into an irresistible country two-step.\u000f\u000fWritten by Lucie … Continue reading “Lucie Tiger – Cowboy Love Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}