AVERY ANNA - danny don't - Warner Music Group

Country music rising star Avery Anna announced the scheduled release of her upcoming sophomore album, and to accompany the announcement, the talented songstress is offering a previous of the project.  “danny don’t” is available now, both digitally and on all streaming platforms, via Warner Music Nashville.

Written by Anna, the song serves as her response to a fan-written letter she received from a man struggling with the weight of life and contemplating giving it up entirely.  The stripped-down track serves as Avery’s letter back to him, where she pleads with soaring vocals that he keep going. The song delves into the typically unsung topic of men’s mental health.

“You can lie and say you don’t want to

But, man, you should cry like you know you want to

Sometimes a man can’t quite say what the truth is

And, man, I know you’re going through it

But, Danny, don’t bite the bullet”

Beautifully-articulated and emotionally-delivered, this is a song that will resonate in the hearts and minds of us all well after we listen.  This is a somber reminder that music can take us to places spiritually and emotionally like few other vessels in life, and its ability to educate, help, and heal are why we gravitate to it so much.

“danny don’t” will be included on “let go letters”, a 15-track collection due out everywhere on May 16^th.  Every song on the record is inspired by real-life situations that Avery’s fans shared with her in a letter series, which has long been a safe place for her listener community to ‘let go’ of experiences that may be troubling them by writing them down and sending them off. Avery read these letters and took the general themes—anything from body dysmorphia, depression, alcoholism in the family, self-esteem, etc.—and turned them into songs, making her fans' experiences the center of the project to let them know they’re heard, seen, and not alone.

“Reading these letters was super heavy,” Avery said.  “There were so many topics that I don’t know if they could say them out loud, but they could write them down.  It inspired me so much that I started writing songs about their experiences myself, and then this album came to life.  My biggest hope is that people will hear it and they’ll feel understood.  I think the highest form of love is to be understood.  People are going through a lot, and they think they’re going through it alone, but they’re not.”

The release of “danny don’t” comes less than a month after her previous tune, “Wish You Well,” as Avery is currently climbing the radio charts with Sam Barber on their viral duet, “Indigo”.  In addition to recently sharing her impressively ingenious take on Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”, the Arizona native also debuted “Mr. Predictable” earlier this year, marking a new era of music as her first solo song since her celebrated 2024 debut album, ‘Breakup Over Breakfast’.

Having made her formal introduction to the mainstream country music audience with her October 2023 release, “I Will (When You Do)” with Dylan Marlowe, Avery’s career has taken off into the stratosphere in the last year and a half.  Having earned tens of millions of global streams, that tune alone helped propel her into the realm of fast-rising country artists to watch.

(Review Written By: Chad Carlson)