Acknowledged for her rise towards country music stardom with another award Friday 12 September, Coonamble’s Max Jackson is destined for bigger things.
“I’m so excited, so over the moon, so grateful to be able to do what I do and to be recognized,” she said.
“It’s the only time I step out of work mode to think about it.
“I am so proud of what we have achieved over the years.’’
Due to overwhelming demand, Max Jackson has released her “Little More Country Sessions” EP and at the Country Music of Australia Awards ceremony she won a medal for contributing to industry.
The current Golden Guitar Winner for Best Female Artist and Single of the Year started a Tik Tok series off the back of her award winning single, “Little More Country.”
This series re-imagined some of the world’s biggest hits with a countrified sound and she has to date accumulated more than 25 million views across her Max Jackson platforms.
“Since I started doing my song Little More Country in November 2023 it was the start of the madness of social media,” she said.
“I said on Tik Tok my song ‘Little More Country’ video was coming out and then someone asked if Freddie Mercury’s Another Bites The Dust could be sung in my song’s style and then a series spun out of it and the third of 3 videos got one million in 10 minutes, it blew my mind.
‘’People are saying on Tik Tok can you come play in so many places United States, Norway and Sweden.’’
Winning Starmaker in Tamworth in 2023 for young and rising artists helped put a rocket under her promising career.
‘’Everyone knew my name when I won the prestigious title,” she said.
“So many of my favourite singers had won it and gave people a chance to listen to my music so it was so cool without that step I could not have gone so far.’’
Max aims now to get Tamworth rocking in 2026.
‘’I am excited to be back at the Longyard in Tamworth to perform at the Country festival bigger and better and also in my ambassador role at the Golden Guitar for a third festival.
“I can’t wait to get back to get there.’’
Max Jackson goes on tour soon to Victoria in November but plays at six festivals in a hectic lead up to Tamworth’s Australian Country Music Festival in January 2026
She says she never forgets her Coonamble upbringing.
“I am so proud of where I am from and I wish I could go back to Coonamble more often.
“At my shows lots of locals come up to me and say hi we are from where you lived. Some of those lived in Coonamble and others are there now.
“I feel being in Coonamble made me feel safe to be myself and so thankful for the upbringing.
“It’s made me the person and artist I am today, so comfortable with community and living there.’
‘’I love coming home.’’
The gifted singer had something of a ‘forced entry’ into singing and thanks her mum for her support.
‘’I was diagnosed as an asthmatic when I was three months and struggled for a while but the doctors told mum I should swim and sing,” says Max.
“I was super, super into swimming and even broke a few records in the Coonamble pool in Under 6’s and 7’s
“Swimming and singing helped me get my breathing under control.
“I could luckily sing in tune so my family was ok with that.’’
2026 could be a landmark year for Jackson.
She has ambitions of working in the world’s country music capital Nashville and also the United Kingdom.