On this episode of The Business Side of Music, we talk with singer/songwriter Heidi Newfield, who was one of the founding members of the award winning and chart topping group Trick Pony. We discuss her career, along with her exciting new solo project “The Barfly...

When I interviewed Heidi Newfield in April 2020, I provided the “where she came from” story of this northern California horsewoman and how she learned the harmonica, became part of the group Trick Pony and wrote the timeless lyrics to Johnny and...

Album Reviews  | August 24th, 2020 This soulful and sacred, hot-rocking, and simply stunning country music album should set several charts on fire. Having grown up on a Quarter Horse ranch in Northern California, Heidi Newfield has wholesome, cowgirl style...

Get a first listen to this new tune — featuring Mickey Raphael and Randy Houser — off the Trick Pony alum’s bluesy new solo album, The Barfly Sessions. Heidi Newfield dares you not to feel something when you listen to her new song “Whitley’s Tombstone,” which you...

The first time I ever saw Heidi Newfield, she was striding on the tables in a Music Row conference room. This was the winter of 2001, when her trio Trick Pony was being introduced to the media. I was relatively new to reporting on mainstream country music, which was...