2026 Toyota Golden Guitar nominees Homegrown Trio return with \u201cNever Really Over,\u201d a heartfelt piano ballad out Friday 25 September 2026.\u000f\u000fProduced by Grammy and CMA Award-winner Nathan Chapman and co-written in Nashville with Chapman and legendary songwriter Liz Rose, the song captures the push and pull of a love you can never quite walk away from \u2013 breaking up, finding your way back, and wondering if it was ever really over.\u000f\u000fFor siblings Katelyn, Liam and Kasey O\u2019Donoghue, the writing session was a milestone. \u201cWe still remember walking into Nathan\u2019s studio in Nashville and meeting Liz for the first time,\u201d the trio recall. \u201cSitting in a room with two incredible songwriters who have written songs for so many artists we look up to felt pretty surreal, but they\u2019re also two of the most genuine, humble people you could ever meet.\u201d\u000f\u000fThe song began with a chorus melody Kasey had been playing around with and a line saved in her phone. From there, it wrote itself. A simple piano and vocal demo was recorded that same day, and when it came time to record the final version, the band chose to preserve that rawness \u2013 allowing the ballad to build and grow without losing the emotion at its heart.\u000f\u000f\u201cWe\u2019ve held onto \u2018Never Really Over\u2019 for a few years now, waiting for the right time to share it,\u201d the trio say. \u201cFor whatever reason, now just feels like that time, and we\u2019re so excited for people to finally hear it.\u201d\u000f\u000fThe timing is no accident. \u201cNever Really Over\u201d is the latest chapter in the lead-up to Part Two, the long-awaited follow-up to Homegrown Trio\u2019s debut EP Part One. Where the singles released since have traced the trio\u2019s growth from Far North Queensland to Nashville, this is the song that reveals its emotional centre \u2013 a glimpse of the depth and vulnerability that will define the collection. With Part Two taking shape, the story that began with Part One is about to reach its next instalment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2026 Toyota Golden Guitar nominees Homegrown Trio return with \u201cNever Really Over,\u201d a heartfelt piano ballad out Friday 25 September 2026.\u000f\u000fProduced by Grammy and CMA Award-winner Nathan Chapman and co-written in Nashville with Chapman and legendary songwriter Liz Rose, the song captures the push and pull of a love you can never quite walk away … Continue reading “Homegrown Trio – never really over”<\/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-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}