BETS (2026)

Juliana Hatfield and Eric PAYNE

  1. Your Social Security

  2. Only Sister

  3. Pass It On

  4. Sweet

  5. Temptation

  6. Sugar Town

  7. The Well

  8. Angels Everywhere

  9. New Flag

  10. Thoughts To Send

  11. Goodbye

Availability

Bets was released on February 27, 2026 via Bandcamp with an announcement on Juliana’s Instagram:

new surprise release alert! before i made my last album, "lightning might strike", i made this set of 11 songs with my contractor, eric payne (who is also a talented carpenter and visual artist [he made the cover art for this project]). eric wrote the music* and played the instruments (except for a couple of guitar tracks by me) and i wrote (and sang) the lyrics and melodies*. a couple of these songs ended up being redone for "lightning..." this album--named "Bets" --can be found at bandcamp: look for julianahatfieldandericpayne.bandcamp.com

*except for

"Sugartown" which was all Lee Hazlewood

julianahatfieldandericpayne.bandcamp.com

Background

In October 2023 Juliana mentioned the existence of this recording in an interview with Grant Walters for Columbus Underground:

I’m always on to the next thing. After I finished the ELO record, I took a little time to not work on anything. But then I started working with this new friend of mine who is a contractor and a carpenter – and he’s also a musician and a songwriter. He had all these songs recorded with no vocals on them, and I ended up writing and recording a whole album worth of songs with him. So, I don’t know if it’s ever going to be released, but there are, like, 12 songs that I wrote lyrics for and sang.