{"id":2852,"date":"2026-05-11T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:00:53","slug":"lucie-tiger-oh-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/lucie-tiger-oh-preacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucie Tiger &#8211; Oh Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Introducing Lucie Tiger\u2019s latest single,&nbsp; \u2018Oh Preacher\u2019. With banjo, fiddle, and&nbsp; honky-tonk piano accents, and driven by punchy, rhythmic production, this single delivers a satisfying slice of outlaw bluegrass country with a contemporary commercial edge.\u000f\u000fLucie Tiger has a knack for writing songs that blend Southern imagery with wit and catchy rhythms, and she achieves this with cinematic flair and a relentless hook in&nbsp;&#8216; Oh Preacher.\u2019\u000f\u000f\u201cThis song came from watching the same stories play out over and over again\u2014with&nbsp; consequences that seem to come as a surprise rather than a wake up call,\u201d says Lucie Tiger.\u000f\u000fLike a cautionary tale set in the Wild West, the lyrics lean into humour, chaos, and outlaw spirit, telling the story of a woman luring a reformed preacher back into trouble. The song flips redemption on its head\u2014trading scripture for survival and forgiveness for reckoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Oh Preacher\u2019&nbsp;is the latest single in Lucie Tiger\u2019s ongoing \u2018 Small Town Scandal\u2019 series &#8211; a collection of songs inspired by the steady churn of small-town gossip and news headlines, where reputation, rumour, and reality often collide. With each release, she continues to expand that world, bringing new characters and perspectives into focus.\u000f\u000fTiger says, \u201c\u2018 Oh Preacher\u2019 doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously &#8211; it\u2019s a little chaotic and very much about the kind of trouble you probably shouldn\u2019t go back to but do anyway\u2026I\u2019ve always loved those small-town stories where someone\u2019s trying to move on and be better, but their past has other plans. \u2018 Oh Preacher\u2019 felt like the perfect way to play with that idea &#8211; pulling someone right back into the chaos they thought they\u2019d left behind.\u000f\u000f\u201dFrom Muscle Shoals to Music Row. Originally a city girl from Sydney whose road trips across America prompted her to stop in Muscle Shoals to record before shifting her focus to Nashville, Lucie Tiger now has a growing presence in the US as well as Australia. She won the Josie Award for Country Vocalist of the Year 2025 in Nashville and has had nine self-penned singles charting on the Music Row Country Breakout chart.\u000f\u000fLucie Tiger skillfully gathers the stories she hears on her travels and weaves them into her songwriting. Performing her award-winning songs at major songwriter festivals and a familiar presence at Nashville songwriter rounds, she has featured at the Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival (three years running) and is set to appear at the Natchez Songwriters Festival in 2026.\u000f\u000fWritten by Lucie Tiger, \u2018 Oh Preacher\u2019 was recorded in Muscle Shoals &#8211; Lucie Tiger&nbsp; (acoustic guitar, vocals, co-producer), Bob Wray (bass guitar), Scooter Muse (banjo), Lisa Silver (fiddle), Clayton Ivey (keys), Tommy Harden (drums), and Charles Holloman (audio engineer, producer).\u000f\u000fThis single follows up Tiger&#8217;s recent release &#8220;Cowboy Love Me&#8217; which gained nationwide airplay across Australia.\u000f\u000f\u2018 Oh Preacher\u2019 will be accompanied by a visualizer filmed at an abandoned church in rural Tennessee, adding a subtle visual nod to the song\u2019s storyline.\u000f\u000f\u201cOh Preacher\u201d will be serviced to radio and all streaming platforms on Friday 8th March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Lucie Tiger\u2019s latest single,&nbsp; \u2018Oh Preacher\u2019. With banjo, fiddle, and&nbsp; honky-tonk piano accents, and driven by punchy, rhythmic production, this single delivers a satisfying slice of outlaw bluegrass country with a contemporary commercial edge.\u000f\u000fLucie Tiger has a knack for writing songs that blend Southern imagery with wit and catchy rhythms, and she achieves this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/lucie-tiger-oh-preacher\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucie Tiger &#8211; Oh Preacher&#8221;<\/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-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}