Hannah Delynn’s Debut Full Length Album “Trust Fall” Set for Independent Release Sept 5th 2025
Finding Freedom Through Vulnerability,
Delynn Crafts Heartfelt Songs of Hope and Healing
Produced by Maya de Vitry
With Fellow Nashville Musicians:
Alex Wilder, Ethan Jodziewicz, John Mailander,
Jordan Tice, Annaliese Kowert, and Lizzy Ross
Two early singles have been released:
“For the Record” & “Blood Alone”
“Set up with a big sound, vocals close to the mic, and instruments occupying just the right spaces, Hannah sings from the depths of her soul straight into yours…’ Some of us have lived this heartbreak.” —Americana Highways
“Trust Fall is an album that can help heal the world. Hannah's collection of songs is vulnerable and deeply personal but also something we can see a part of ourselves in. On ‘Waiting,’ Hannah's idea to play together as a voice and fiddle duet for this final track feels like it encompasses the ethos of the album to me—it's raw and exposed but strong, powerful, and human.” —John Mailander
“Placing Hannah’s vocals and lyrics front and center, the song [“For the Record”] is an intimate work of folk brimming with soulful beauty. Hannah is backed by subtle, swelling orchestral textures as she sings about relationships and seeking positivity. There is a powerful sense of emotion that is conveyed through the combination of the vocals and the strings, making this a work of sparse yet bold music.” —Glide Magazine
NASHVILLE — Hannah Delynn, a Nashville-based vocalist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, independently releases her debut full-length album, Trust Fall, on September 5. Hannah’s ability and openness to view life from many perspectives result in songs that are emotionally engaging and compelling. This record is a testament to accepting self-responsibility and the myriad mixed emotions that entails.
Finding freedom through vulnerability, Delynn crafts heartfelt songs of hope and healing. “I write about matters of the heart and hope my words and songs bring you hope and healing and connect you with the beauty that is all around us—even when it feels difficult to see,” says Hannah. “This collection of songs honors a potent sea of change in my life and reflects a season of deep grief, loss, betrayal, and heartbreak, as well as beauty, love, generosity, and friendship,” says Hannah. “I have been learning how to more deeply trust myself, others, and the world around me. Life has a way of alchemizing pain and hardship into beautiful blessings and gifts, but it can feel like we’re first being melted down in the crucible or turned to goo in the chrysalis. Learning to ask for help and to summon both courage and surrender during those moments has been a vital, if uncomfortable, process, and these songs have come from that cauldron. They are soul-friends, catharsis, comforters, and companions.”
For as long as she can remember, Hannah has always loved words and stories, music, and adventures. Originally from Florida, she found her way to Nashville in 2013 by way of New Zealand, British Columbia, and Australia, gathering stories (soon to be songs) along the way. Hannah says, “I have now called Nashville home for over 11 years and have fallen deeply in love with this community. I owe so much to some dear friends who took me firmly under their wing and graciously showed me the ropes of Music City.”
Hannah continues, “Trust Fall was made with some of my favorite people on earth. We are close friends, and I think that’s what allowed for the depth of vulnerability. Each person made me feel so completely held and free to just ‘be,’ which allowed me to truly open up and allow the raw emotion of these songs into the performances.”
Produced by fellow songwriter Maya de Vitry, who also sings harmony and performs on the album, the pair brought together a fantastic cast of Nashville musicians to record, including further harmonies by Alex Wilder (also on piano/Wurlitzer), Ethan Jodziewicz on arco and ukulele bass, as well as cameos by John Mailander on fiddle and electronics, Jordan Tice on guitar, Annaliese Kowert on violins, and Lizzy Ross on harmony vocals.
“Maya, Ethan, and I had been touring together as part of Maya’s ‘Infinite Band’ (plus Joel Timmons!) in 2024 (the group that also served as the studio band for Maya’s Infinite EP, which came out the year prior), so the ease and connection you hear are very much the foundational fabric of our friendship and, therefore, the record,” Hannah explains. “This particular crew, and Maya especially, has played such a beautiful and instrumental role in helping me step into my musicianship, both on stage and creatively. Their belief in me really helped me turn a major corner in seeing and *trusting* myself and my artistry in a way I hadn’t quite been able to yet.”
While blind faith may certainly be called upon in this idea of a trust fall, the album more references the understanding that life is a co-collaboration with Spirit, which can, more often than not, require us to lean into some fairly gritty discomfort zones. Hannah says, “But that’s the point. You want life to be different? You’re gonna have to do things differently. But you don’t have to go it alone… To put it another way, it’s about learning to ask for help.”
Maya says, “I remember talking with Hannah about how when we are making a record, ‘we are making medicine, in a way.’ Whatever medicine she most needed—the stories she was telling through the songs, the emotions she'd be revealing through the performance—if she was making her own true medicine, that's what mattered. And chances are, that medicine might be potent and healing to others, too. Witnessing Hannah through the process of gathering these songs and then totally embodying these songs was amazing. I think that making this record was truly transformative for her. Being in the presence of her incredible vulnerability was transformative for me, too, and I think for everyone who stepped into her circle to be a part of the process. She leaned into so many nuanced places in her voice—strength, anger, regret, defiance, delight, grief—and I think she's going to be able to help a lot of people unlock some of these very tough doors in themselves. It also feels significant that the whole time she was making this record, she was working at High Garden [an herbal tea shop and apothecary], working with herbs and teas, packaging up little satchels for healing in a different way!”
Hannah and friends set out to record, starting at a charming bluff-view cabin, “In The Pines,” nestled in the heart of the forest of Monteagle, TN. With Ethan engineering, they laid down the guitar and some vocals before Hannah came down with bronchitis two days before they were set to finish what was to be a more simple recording. After a bit of time and healing, they collectively decided to take a bit more time with it and add more to the mix, which changed the entire trajectory of the album. They went on to record further and bring in more guest musicians to finish the album in Ethan’s home studio, The Secret Woods.
Additional engineering was provided by Alex Wilder at Phantom Studio in Gallatin, TN. Trust Fall was mixed by Jason Richmond at The River House in Hillsborough, NC, and mastered by John McLaggen at Parachute Mastering in New Brunswick, Canada.
Trust Fall contains 11 original songs by Delynn, including a few co-writes credited to de Vitry (“Leaf on a River,” “Blood Alone,” and “No Small Thing,” as well as string arrangements on ”For the Record”), Josh Rennie-Hynes (“For the Record”), and Clare Reynolds (“Jealousy”). “Waiting” has chordal arrangements by Emily Mann.
Hannah says, “The songs in Trust Fall draw a beautiful image of the embodiment of trusting in both ourselves and others, as well as forces seen and unseen. It is about the collaboration of the physical (boots on the ground/hands in dirt work of living) and the spiritual (trusting the magic of life as it weaves its tapestry). For me, it was about an internal shift—an experiment in trusting myself, my intuition, and whatever forces are out there that we’re interfacing with. I like to call it Spirit. It was very much like stepping out and trusting the ground would meet me, so to speak. From there, it rippled out into learning to trust others and the world around me more and more. In many ways, the world around us mirrors our beliefs back to us, and I wanted to begin taking responsibility for my part in that co-creation.
Trust Fall is Hannah’s first full-length album. She says, “This title has been like a theme activated in almost every area of my life: career, love, family, friendship… all of it. Like I dared the universe! Be careful what you wish for; you just might get the opportunity to step into it.”
For more information, please visit: www.hannahdelynn.com, www.facebook.com/hannahdelynnmusic, www.instagram.com/hannahdelynn, and www.hannahdelynn.bandcamp.com.
