Jenny Tolman Finds Heart-Wrenching Honesty in “Maybe Next Month”
- All Country News
- Sep 5
- 2 min read
Jenny Tolman has never been afraid to tell the truth. With her sharp pen and singular voice, she’s carved a niche as one of country music’s most fearless storytellers, painting vivid portraits of life’s joys, heartbreaks, and in-between moments. But in her new release, “Maybe Next Month,” Tolman trades in the winks and wit for raw vulnerability, delivering one of the most moving performances of her career.
The song, built on a stripped-down production that wisely avoids gloss or over-arrangement, leaves space for the weight of the lyrics to do the talking. And talk they do. From the very first verse, Tolman takes listeners into the quietest, most private corners of a woman’s life, walking the hallway past a spare room painted pink, opening the bathroom drawer she dreads, setting a pregnancy test on the counter. With every line, the listener is placed right beside her, holding their breath.
By the chorus, Tolman expands the frame: this is not a woman without accomplishments. She’s capable, resilient, and grounded. She can “bring home the bacon, cook it good too,” she’s got the husband, the house, the life. Yet, as Tolman asks with heartbreaking simplicity: “So why’s she got this dream that won’t come true?”
“Maybe Next Month” is as much about longing as it is about faith, or the faltering of it. The song treads bravely into the spiritual tension so many quietly endure. Friends offer assurances that God has a plan, but after years of unanswered prayers, the narrator admits she doesn’t always know if she believes Him. It’s the kind of lyric that stops you in your tracks: intimate, unguarded, and devastatingly real.
For country music, a genre built on storytelling, this is songwriting at its purest. There’s no grand crescendo, no radio-polished gloss, just a woman, her voice, and a truth too many know but too few sing about. In that choice, Tolman not only cements her artistry but also her courage.
Jenny Tolman has long been hailed as one of Music City’s most compelling storytellers. With “Maybe Next Month,” she proves that sometimes the most powerful production choice is restraint, and the bravest lyric is the one that risks breaking your own heart.
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