"Making Pretty Babies"
Out on Mule Kick Records May 22nd
From full length record “You’ll Be OK, Baby” coming this summer
Sally Jaye doesn’t want people to come see her. Instead, the Georgia native wants people to feel seen at her shows through the stories she shares.
Those stories, wrapped in joy and sorrow, both achingly sweet and often profound, are the framework of her fourth solo studio album, You’ll Be Okay, Baby. The 10-song record was produced by Brent Cobb in Macon, Ga,. and in Nashville’s The Studio with producer Ted Pecchio. From the celebratory “Making Pretty Babies” to the gentle poetry of “Bird Dogs and Fence Lines”, You’ll Be Okay, Baby is the undeniable result of a lot of living. And if you ever get the chance to look Jaye in the eyes, you’ll know she’s one with the mystery -- a searcher of all things beautiful who has undoubtedly been through a hell of a lot of heartbreak.
Each song is a masterpiece of emotion and craft, a three-minute journey wrapped up with a lilting melody and a hooky chorus. You can hear the years spent in Georgia coffeeshops, the move to Nashville, then California, a successful run as an actress, her marriage and family with songwriter/artist Brian Wright, hundreds of shows played to crowds big and small, a return to Nashville in a season of grief, the joy of children, the reverberation of loss…
Her way with words makes it only logical that in 2025 she was chosen as an artist in residence at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, in celebration of the 100th birthday of Flannery O’Connor. She considers O’Connor one of her main influences, channeling the writer’s raw and unfiltered stories of life and loved ones in the American South into her own timeless brand of songwriting.
Jaye’s 2006 album Amarillo is a cult favorite among Americana aficionados – and music supervisors who regularly use its tracks on TV shows. “Miss Ater” was re-cut years later by Brent Cobb. Her songs have also been recorded by Leah Blevins, Brian Wright, Shannon McNally and others. She has shared the stage with Patty Griffin, Allison Moorer, The Civil Wars, Lucinda Williams, Shooter Jennings and more, and, to those in the known in LA, was certainly a regular and favorite in the halcyon days of Hollywood’s Hotel Café both as a solo artist and as a part of the bands Ladies Gun Club and Pink Birds.
She played Bessie Coburn on the CBS drama “Christy” alongside Kellie Martin, Tess Harper and Tyne Daly. On one episode, she sang with Judy Collins. She has appeared in the films “Too Late” and “Sunday Punch” and wrote the credits track for the film, “If Only” starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, which was recorded at Abbey Road with the London Symphony Orchestra.