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MARVIN Magazine: The New Guard with Hudson Ingram

At nineteen, Hudson Ingram isn’t chasing a moment—he’s documenting one. The Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s latest single, “Baby Just Be,” lands with quiet confidence, the kind that doesn’t need to announce itself. Released via Interscope Records and connected to an upcoming joint venture with Aaron Dessner, the track follows “Real Life” and sharpens the outline of an artist easing into his own voice, not rushing it.

“‘Baby Just Be’ was one of the first songs I wrote after I left home and moved to Nashville,” Ingram says, framing the song as both timestamp and turning point. Written with close friend and collaborator Jack Schrepferman, the track came together without ceremony. “Sometimes songs just fall out of the air—and when you’re in the right place at the right time, they find you.” That place was Jack’s floor. That time was between coffee breaks. A guitar with a broken string, no grand plan—just instinct doing the work.

Sonically and emotionally, “Baby Just Be” mirrors that stripped-back origin. Inspired by leaving Texas and learning how to exist on his own terms, the song moves through the soft chaos of growing up: shedding pride, catching your breath, staying low when things get heavy. Ingram calls it “a very real story,” explaining that writing it down felt like “memorializing that experience, and honoring what it took to get past it.” There’s no dramatics here—just clean, emotionally legible songwriting that trusts the listener to meet it halfway.

Dessner’s touch widens the frame without distorting the picture. “He somehow made it feel more complete and expansive without at all losing what it was at the core,” Ingram says. The song still feels grounded—intimate, lived-in—but now with room to stretch. “It feels like the start of the story I’m telling right now,” he adds, “growing up in real time and writing it down as it happens.”

With “Baby Just Be,” Hudson Ingram isn’t trying to break through the noise—he’s carving space within it. And that restraint, paired with emotional precision, is what quietly puts him ahead of the curve.

At MARVIN, we exist for moments like this—spotlighting artists in motion, before the narrative hardens. Hudson Ingram is still writing his story, and we’re here to listen while it’s being told.