[Cover photo credit to Natalie Osborne]
Nashville singer/songwriter, radio host, and and Renaissance man Fancy Hagood has today delivered the surprise release of his new EP, Baby Jake. It’s the first new music since his 2025 deluxe album American Spirit: The Last Drag, and the EP includes two original songs and a Bluegrass-inspired Spice Girls cover. Hagood co-produced the tracks alongside Nashville-based production duo and multi-instrumentalist brothers Gideon and Gabe Klein.
Hagood says:
Baby Jake is a return. My artist evolution has constantly been me stripping things back, going further and further towards the most organic version of what I do as a songwriter. This EP is the beginning of something I wanted to do from the moment I moved to Nashville. It’s a nod to my love for Nickel Creek and other bluegrass artists, but also remains true to the pop melodies I’ve become known for in my career. It’s stripping things back and letting it be about the song.
The EP opens with “Love Me Back,” an “unrequited love song about crushing on the wrong person,” followed by a fiddle-led take on the Spice Girls’ “Say You’ll Be There” and closes with the love song “To The Moon,” which Hagood co-wrote with The Brummies’ John Davidson and Jacob Bryant.
He explains:
I chose the Spice Girls cover because that was the first band I ever remember having fandom for. The EP also includes two originals, ‘To The Moon’ written in 2013, and ‘Love Me Back’ which I wrote in 2018. I’ve been holding onto these songs for a while, and I’m excited to give them their moment in the sun.
It’s no coincidence this EP comes in the spring as it’s the first bloom of something new and exciting, but also familiar and nostalgic for myself. It’s my first time serving as a producer on my own songs, collaborating with Gideon and Gabe Klein. I think this is the most natural and organic version of my artistry to date.
Last year, Hagood received the HRC Visibility Award and was the featured cover artist of the Nashville Scene’s Country Music Almanac.
Fresh off a run of UK and European dates opening for CMAT, Hagood just launched his new Apple Country Radio show FANCY after four years hosting Trailblazers Radio.
