Olivia Wolf joins forces with Buddy Miller on heartfelt new single ‘Galilee’

Nashville singer-songwriter Olivia Wolf explores the difficult realisation that love isn't always enough on her new single ‘Galilee’, featuring Americana favourite Buddy Miller, ahead of her second album, Snake of Diamonds, arriving 22 January 2027.

Sometimes a relationship doesn't end because something terrible has happened. Sometimes two people simply discover that, despite loving each other, they're no longer heading in the same direction.

It's that complicated emotional territory Olivia Wolf explores on ‘Galilee’, a quietly powerful new single featuring acclaimed singer-songwriter and producer Buddy Miller.

Released on 16 October, the stripped-back duet draws on Wolf's experience of a four-year relationship, examining the uncertainty that can grow when two people share their lives without knowing whether they're building a future together.

'I wrote ‘Galilee’ coming out of a four-year relationship where we were doing everything together, but there was always this uncertainty about the future', Wolf explains. 'I think you can spend a long time loving somebody and living day to day, but eventually you reach a point where you have to ask the question you've been afraid to ask: Are we building a future together, or are we just passing time?'

For Wolf, the song isn't about demanding guarantees or knowing exactly how life will unfold. It's about recognising when a relationship has stopped moving forward. 'I'd go anywhere with somebody I love, but I can't keep going nowhere', she says.

The collaboration arrives just weeks after Wolf joined Miller on stage for five songs at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, where she also performed alongside Joan Baez and Robert Plant.

‘Galilee’ is the latest preview of Wolf's forthcoming second album, Snake of Diamonds, due for release on 22 January through Soundly Music and Thirty Tigers. The ten-track collection follows her debut album, Silver Rounds, which explored the aftermath of profound personal loss.

Where that record was shaped by grief, Snake of Diamonds turns towards the challenge of rebuilding a life after it, exploring what happens when surviving is no longer enough and the desire to truly live begins to take hold.

Working with producer Sean McConnell, whose credits include Little Big Town, Brittney Spencer and Ashley McBryde, Wolf has embraced a sparse approach to recording that places her voice and songwriting at the centre. Vocals were often captured barely above speaking volume, with natural imperfections deliberately left intact.

The result is a collection that moves between troubled relationships, social division and the tension between danger and adventure, all viewed through Wolf's distinctive folk and Americana perspective. The album's previous single, ‘Drag It Back’, offered a more fiery introduction to the project, arriving alongside a music video filmed in Joshua Tree and directed by Mason Poole, whose work includes collaborations with Beyoncé, Annie Lennox and Allison Russell.

For Wolf, storytelling has been part of her life from an early age. Her grandfather founded the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, giving her an unusually close introduction to the folk, country and Americana musicians who would eventually influence her own work. Following his death, she joined the old-time bluegrass band he had established, an experience that helped lead her towards writing original material and eventually relocating to Nashville.

Since then, Wolf has steadily developed her reputation within the Americana community. Her single ‘Cosmic Appalachian Radio’ found success at Americana radio, while touring opportunities have seen her share the road with Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, Brandy Clark, Brent Cobb and Blackberry Smoke.

She has also performed alongside artists including Emmylou Harris, Margo Price and Allison Russell, building connections within the musical community that first inspired her.

With Snake of Diamonds, Wolf is bringing those experiences together in a record that reflects a different stage of her life.

And on ‘Galilee’, she captures one of the more difficult truths about relationships: that loving someone and building a life together aren't always the same thing.

It's an intimate introduction to an album concerned with moving forward, even when doing so means leaving something meaningful behind.

‘Galilee’, featuring Buddy Miller, is available now.