Amy McCarley is a Huntsville, Alabama, singer-songwriter whose emotionally honest songs blend Americana, rock, and Southern storytelling with an uncommon sense of introspection. A former NASA contractor, she writes about resilience, identity, and transformation, drawing on both personal experience and her aerospace background to tell stories of finding new trajectories through life’s hardest seasons.

Amy will be callling in to Hertford as one of her dates en route to the Maverick Festival, and will be playing with Joe Wilkins on electric guitar.

Her third album, MECO — named for Main Engine Cut Off, the point in a Space Shuttle mission when the main engines shut down and momentum carries the vehicle beyond powered flight — captured her own leap from aerospace into music. No Depression praised McCarley’s voice as “a nuanced instrument,” while Vaughan has noted that her songs resonate because they are rooted in lived experience and emotional truth.

Now McCarley is preparing her fourth studio album, TLI (Trans Lunar Injection), and will soon return to Nashville to co-produce the record. Expanding into a more electronic rock landscape while remaining grounded in vulnerable songwriting, Americana influences, and a distinctly Southern perspective, TLI marks a new sonic direction without abandoning the authenticity that has defined her work.

TLI will be the second in what former NASA contractor McCarley, is planning as a four-album spaceflight-inspired journey. Together they reflect McCarley’s own evolution as both an artist and a person, inviting listeners to consider not only where they’re headed, but who they become along the way.