Atkins had an eventful 2024 with several support slots opening for both Stevie Nicks and also her friends The Mavericks (who’s new album she is featured on). She’s currently hard at work on what will be her sixth studio album.

Her previous studio release Italian Ice (2020) was her best reviewed to date drawing rave reviews on both sides of the pond. “My album “Italian Ice” came out during lockdown from the pandemic and while the world was slowly getting back to normal (or trying to) I was lucky enough to share stages with musicians I’ve always looked up to like Elvis, Stevie Nicks, Spoon and the Mavericks,” Atkins remarked. “I learned so much from them and was having such a good time I didn’t realize that four years had passed. The sayings are true!

Now with a bunch of new songs and a great band and some time before the studio, I can’t wait to figure out what these new songs want to be together with you guys at the shows! I’ve always wanted to do it that way like I did it before my first record but now it actually feels like time is on my side and I have some to make it happen so see ya in August.”

"Atkins alternated between rocking R&B and her album’s other predominant style, a lush hybrid of Roy Orbison’s lovelorn drama, Dusty Springfield’s cool soul, and Charlie Rich’s late-night balladry. It takes impressive skill to draw so earnestly from such old-fashioned sounds without fetishizing them, but Atkins has the heart, humor, and craft to pull it off."

-Austin Chronicle, ACL Review

Here’s one of my favorite Nicole tunes - youtube