Kam Franklin tears open old wounds and claims every inch of her creative freedom on her fearless debut solo album ‘Land of the Neon Sun,’ a boldly unapologetic statement of independence where country storytelling, psychedelic gospel, smoldering soul, and protest music all bend toward the same mission: telling the truth as loudly and freely as Franklin wants. In conversation with Atwood Magazine, the longtime Suffers frontwoman opens up about surviving trauma, the blistering, soul-stirring “A Heathen’s Hymn,” trusting her own instincts, and building a record expansive enough to hold protest, desire, friendship, accountability, and hard-won healing. Impassioned, uncompromising, and utterly electrifying, Franklin is an artist in full command – a singular voice whose music can confront, seduce, console, and detonate in the same breath.