By Joseph Hudak Noeline Hofmann is poised to be your new favorite country songwriter — she’s already one of Zach Bryan’s. When the Canadian singer wrote a song about a special type of dyed fuel that only farmers in her community could buy, it caught the ear of Bryan, who recorded “Purple Gas” with Hofmann as a duet. She went on to release it on her 2024 EP, and, in a new interview with Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, says she’s been awed by the “velocity of my trajectory” ever since. Before a live audience at a bar outside of Nashville, Hofmann talks about writing “Purple Gas,” the impact of Bryan’s endorsement, and the time she went up in her father’s crop-dusting plane as a little girl — her family operates an “aerial application” business in Alberta, Canada. Highlights of our interview follow, and you can watch the full episode below. You recently performed at the Grand Ole Opry and Ricky Skaggs was on the lineup.…