About the Artist
Caitlynne Curtis is a Nashville country singer-songwriter who built an audience of more than two million on TikTok alongside her son, Jonah. Born in the Northeast and raised on the move before her family settled in Nashville when she was twelve, she first reached a national audience as a teenager on The X Factor. Her latest album, You Need Jesus, arrived in February 2026, written in the year after she got sober.
Caitlynne Curtis
About the Episode (Episode 129)
Caitlynne Curtis: Sobriety, Faith, and a Play on Words
Days after releasing You Need Jesus, Caitlynne Curtis sat down with host Jason English to talk about the new album, a headline tour, and the night that changed her direction. The conversation moves between the practical work of being an independent artist and something more personal: what it took to stop drinking, start over, and build the life she wants for herself and her son.
Key Conversation Points
A Rock Bottom Worth Remembering: Curtis traces her sobriety to one night in October 2024. "I had so much to drink and I blacked out," she says. "I had that moment where I was like, wow, I just hit rock bottom." She has not had a drink since, and the songs on the album follow that turn honestly.
A Title That Cuts Both Ways: She made the title track the focus of the record for the question it raises. "When you search that, you need Jesus, what does this mean? It could mean so many different things." The songs fold gospel language into country and heartbreak without ever asking to be called a gospel album.
Raising Jonah on a Different Script: Her father believed in not getting your hopes up so you could not be let down. Curtis chose the opposite with her eleven-year-old son, who freestyled his verse on the album track "Survivor" in a single take. "I tell him anything is possible," she says.
Caitlynne talks through all of it with Jason in Episode 129: the new album, the road ahead, and what sobriety opened up for her and Jonah.