Multi Golden Guitar and Gold Record recipient, Melinda Schneider\u2019s new album TENDER has debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Country Album Chart and #1 on the AIR 100% Independent Albums Chart, reaffirming Melinda\u2019s enduring connection with audiences and her place at the forefront of Australian music with her first original studio album in over a decade.
Schneiders\u2019 fifteenth album titled \u2018Tender\u2019 has also garnered widespread critical acclaim, Country Music News International Magazine described the album as \u201c the soul stirring strength of softness\u201d:
\u000f\u201cThere is a specific kind of bravery required to stay soft in a world that often demands we harden. For Melinda Schneider, that softness isn\u2019t just a personality trait \u2014 it\u2019s a superpower. This isn\u2019t merely a collection of eleven songs; it is a vivid, emotionally panoramic map of a woman who has navigated the peaks of fame and the valleys of personal growth, emerging with her most potent work to date\u201d.\u000f
The eleven-track LP is anchored by its emotional centrepiece, the soul-pop classic, \u2018Tender \u2019 \u2014 a standout duet featuring Diesel.\u000f
\u2018Tender\u2019 is a soulful reflection \u2013 a call for men to love with integrity, tenderness, and heart. It speaks to what it truly means to \u201cdo right by a woman,\u201d reminding us that real connection is built on honesty, loyalty, and finding the courage and strength to be both powerful and gentle in equal measure.\u000f
Melinda and Diesel\u2019s performance on this track is full of soul and their vocal blend is sublime.\u000f
Melinda says: \u201cI\u2019ve always been tender \u2014 in every sense of the word. As an empath, I feel everything deeply, too deeply. My tenderness once felt like a burden, probably because I was around people who didn\u2019t share my values, but over time it became my strength. Tender celebrates that transformation into safety and authenticity \u2013 now I am safe, I can be gentle with myself, and vulnerable with others.\u201d
Diesel adds: \u201cWith all the stereotypes of how genders should act, it\u2019s important to remember just to be tender. This song brought me into that feeling with its melody and lyrics from the get-go, and getting to share that space with Melinda vocally is always a treat for me.\u201d\u000f\u000fTENDER showcases some of the finest producers and musicians from Australia and Nashville \u2013 producer and multi-instrumentalist Rod McCormack, producer Wayne Connolly (Boy & Bear, Hoodoo Gurus), Ian Lees (bass), Rod Motbey (guitars), Clayton Doley (Hammond and keys), drummers Pete Drummond and Glenn Wilson and legendary Nashville pedal steel player, Bruce Bouton.
In a unique creative move, Schneider has bridged the gap between the auditory and the visual. As an abstract expressionist, Melinda developed eleven original paintings to represent each song on the album, which were recently showcased at the Tamworth Regional Gallery. \u201cThe songs came first, then I created eleven original paintings inspired by each track,\u201d Melinda explains.
TENDER showcases Melinda in extraordinary voice. As she shares, \u201cThis album reflects exactly where I am right now \u2014 tender, authentic and stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Multi Golden Guitar and Gold Record recipient, Melinda Schneider\u2019s new album TENDER has debuted at #1 on the ARIA Australian Country Album Chart and #1 on the AIR 100% Independent Albums Chart, reaffirming Melinda\u2019s enduring connection with audiences and her place at the forefront of Australian music with her first original studio album in over a decade. Schneiders\u2019 … Continue reading “Melinda Schneider and Diesel – Tender”<\/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-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","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=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2685,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}