Lucky Penny

Release date: August 28, 2026

Genre: Singer Songwriter / Indie Folk

Label: Independent

Months ago, I heard a snippet of Zach Hunhoff performing Lucky Penny live with Rose Mooney, and I’ve been waiting to hear the studio version ever since. On Aug. 28, Zach released Lucky Penny, his first three-song EP, with the title track opening the project.

Zach Hunhoff is a guitarist and songwriter, and that comes through pretty naturally in the song. What first stood out to me about Lucky Penny is how visual the writing is. His fingertips are numb, the wind tears his coat apart, and he is walking through the cold with nowhere left to follow. Later, his eyes become “vagabonds,” wandering down every street and through every soul, with no map and no compass left to hold. Instead of really explaining what happened, the song gives you the surroundings and lets you piece the feeling together yourself.

The lucky penny becomes the center of all of it. He pushes it deep into his pocket, somehow finds it back in his hand, and then watches it roll back onto the street. It is such a small thing, but it carries most of the song. Something that is supposed to represent luck keeps slipping away from him anyway.

That same feeling comes back when he sings about leaving his six strings and heart to bleed, before admitting that maybe it was never really his to have. For a song about losing something, Lucky Penny never needs to say too much about what exactly was lost. You just get the cold hands, the empty streets, and the penny rolling away.