Sister Sadie’s All Will Be Well album is out. The record, their second on bluegrass label Mountain Home Music, comes after their previous Grammy-nominated No Fear record, out in 2024. With so much success, it would have been easy for Sister Sadie to follow that same formula in making All Will Be Well. Fortunately, the band is too talented and diverse to want to repeat what they have already done.

“It was a very successful record,” Deanie Richardson tells Everything Nash, speaking of No Fear. “So going in to cut this one, there’s a lot of pressure. You gotta bring it after a record like No Fear, which is just a great record. So we went in with these songs, a lot of them – we’ve written a lot of them. We go find songs from friends, or favorite writers that we love. And we went in, and I just like to go let the songs do what they do.”

In a brave move, Sister Sadie opted to veer a bit from doing strictly bluegrass, and lean into ’90s country as well, while still sounding like Sister Sadie.

 

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“I didn’t go in to cut a ’90s country meets bluegrass record, but that’s what happened,” Richardson says with a laugh. “And it’s been my dream project, honestly. I spent 25 years with Patty Loveless, and then several years with Vince Gill. So I lived in that world of ’90s country, and it’s just a place that we all love. We love that period of country music. And then we all love bluegrass, so it works really well to bring the ’90s country feel in with this bluegrass instrumentation. But it’s scary.

“It’s a scary thing to step outside your genre just a little bit, and wait for the bluegrass world to kind of rip you apart for it,” she adds with a chuckle. “But we did it. I am extremely proud of this record, very proud of this record. And the girls brought it hard. We got some outside help from some friends on some instruments that needed to be there. It’s a great record. It’s a very personal record.”

Perhaps the magic of Sister Sadie is that they let their music lead, regardless of whether it fits perfectly into a certain genre or sound. It’s a guiding principle that has been a part of Sister Sadie since they began making music together more than a decade ago.

“We end up doing a lot of things we don’t intend to do,” Gena Britt explains. “We didn’t intend to be a band. We didn’t intend for this record to be ’90s country meets bluegrass. But it is, and it works well. The creativity, when we get in the studio, it’s just awesome to see all of that come together. It’s like this band is a big mixture of different kinds of people, too. We’re all politically different, religiously different. We’re all different in so many different ways. And then, when we come together and we hit the first music note, we’re a band. We’re there to play music, and it’s exciting to see.

“And we have extremely, incredibly talented songwriters in this band,” she adds. “And hearing all that come to life in the studio,  it’s pretty magical. This band is magical in music and creativity, and it keeps growing. It’s really great to see.”

Included on All Will Be Well is a song called “Let the Circle Be Broken.” It’s a twist on country music’s “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” perhaps one of the most beloved country music songs of all time. But for Richardson, “Let the Circle Be Broken” has a heartbreaking story.

“My father died a couple of years ago, and he was a very abusive man,” Richardson shares. “I endured lots of emotional, sexual, verbal abuse from him for most of my life at home. And when he died, I often wondered how I would feel … I just never knew how I would feel.”

Richardson acknowledges she thought she would be happy, but instead had a much different response, which comes out in “Let the Circle Be Broken.”

“I was very emotional,” she admits. “It was like, ‘Oh my gosh, my dad is gone. He’ll never be the dad. I really wanted him to be, or I wanted to have.’ But then there was also this thing of just breathing. It’s finally over. His energy, his hold over me is finally gone.”

All Will Be Well might not be what longtime Sister Sadie fans have come to expect from them. Still, it’s the record that Britt believes they were always meant to make.

“This record ended up being an honest representation, coming from an authentic place from individual members of this band,” Britt maintains. “It’s an honest representation of our band, and things that we went through in our lives, and things that we’ve experienced. So it’s pretty honest and authentic. My goal is that people will gather some comfort, or just listen to the lyrics of all the songs on this record, and feel what we felt when we were recording it.”

Sister Sadie is spending much of the next several weeks on the road. They will also be part of the 2026 Country Music Cruise. Find All Will Be Well and all of Sister Sadie’s music and upcoming shows at SisterSadieBand.com.