Best New Country Songs

As always, it's been another crazy busy week in the world of country and americana. Mumford & Sons brought out Lainey Wilson for ‘4X4XU’ and a cover of Shania Twain's ‘Man! I Feel Like a Woman!’ at the New Orleans stop of their Railroad Revival Tour, Morgan Wallen did possibly his best walk out yet when the Sneedville megastar took to the stage flanked by San Francisco 49ers' George Kittle and Trent Williams at the Levis Stadium in Santa Clara, California, and Zach Bryan has really taken Tyler Childers' latest album to heart on his socials, seemingly missing the irony of adding the woman who accused him of emotional abuse to a 'Bitin' List.'

We've got it all this week. This week's Best New Country playlist is a veritable smorgasbord of classic old school country from some of the finest progenitors of modern neo-traditionalism around, as well as some pop country instant classics from Bailey Zimmerman, Lauren Alaina and Cameron Whitcomb.

You can listen along to this week's Best New Country on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and YouTube.

This week's Best New Country cover star is Joshua Hedley. He announced his new album, All Hat, for 24 October this week via New West Records with what can only be described as a certified banger, 'Fresh Hot Biscuits.'

His forthcoming studio album was produced by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel and Joshua Hedley, and it's a lively collection of Western Swing tunes that brims with excitement, wit, and verve, as Hedley expertly navigates the tricky dance rhythms of this jazzy style of twang.

The first album recorded at Benson’s new studio, The Bismeaux Barn in Austin, TX, All Hat is another left turn in a career defined by sharp left turns, following his 2018 debut Mr. Jukebox, which explored ‘60s countrypolitan and established him as one of the finest old-school country crooners in all of Nashville. Its acclaimed 2022 follow up, Neon Blue, jumped ahead a few decades as Hedley turned his attention to the much-maligned period in country music: the early ‘90s, when a new wave of singing cowboy took their twang into rock arenas. Rather than his trusty touring band the Hedliners, for All Hat, Hedley worked with members of Asleep at the Wheel, including veteran fiddle player Jason Roberts.

“This album is my pièce de resistance,” Hedley says. “It’s all been building up to this moment. I feel like I’m making music I love more than any other style.”

A mainstay for years at the world-famous Robert's Western World (where he holds residency to this day), he has become a master of so many different styles, so much so that he's been dubbed "the singin' professor of Country & Western." When other kids his age were playing the latest video games, Hedley was spending hours in his room teaching himself old Bob Wills tunes.

"I didn't grow up playing in garage bands," he says. "I grew up at the goddamned VFW hall. I grew up playing with guys in their fifties and sixties."

The first taste of the new album comes by way of the lip-smacking, finger-licking Western swing of 'Fresh Hot Biscuits,' and it kicks off our Best New Country playlist today

“I wrote it the night before," Hedley explains. "I sat down and wrote it and thought it was pretty good, but when we recorded it the next day, it really came to life.”

Watch the video for 'Fresh Hot Biscuits' below

Classic country torch bearer and Roberts Western World regular, Brennen Leigh announced her new album, Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love, for October this week with the brilliant 'Dumpster Diving,' and Holler was lucky enough to premier the new video, while Margo Price revisits her earliest days in Nashville on her new single, 'Losing Streak,' the latest teaser from her highly anticipated forthcoming album, Hard Headed Woman, ahead of its release on 29 August.

She looks back fondly on sleeping off a three-day party in the backseat of her '91 Ford Explorer, moving to town with a handful of half-finished songs, spending two weeks in the same clothes on the brink of a mental meltdown, lost and slipping low, wondering why she left home and came down here at all.

Whirling in with an organ and a world-worn sense of defiance, this resilient country rocker offers proof that while our worst times don't define us, they are always part of who we are.

"'Losing Streak' tells the story of my early years coming up in Nashville," Price shared. "It is a coming-of-age story inspired by struggle, substances and the search for the perfect song. It was co-written with my husband and songwriting partner, Jeremy Ivey."

Watch the lyric video for 'Losing Streak' below.

The "Kenny Powers of Country Music,' Gavin Adcock shows us a sensitive side we didn't know he had as he gives us another song from his upcoming 24-track sophomore album, Own Worst Enemy, ahead of its release next week with 'Turn Down The Lights,' and Zach Bryan and Kings of Leon join forces for 'Bowery.'

It's not the only unlikely pairing in this week's Best New Country. Elsewhere, Ty Herndon teams up with GRAMMY winner and Grand Ole Opry member Ashley McBryde for a powerful new duet version of his 1998 hit, 'A Man Holdin’ On (To a Woman Lettin’ Go).' The single is the second release from Herndon’s forthcoming double album THIRTY, a career-spanning project honouring his 30 years in country music. Volume One is due this fall and will feature reimagined versions of Herndon’s most beloved songs, each rerecorded as a duet with some of the genre’s most exciting voices. While Marshmellow and Jelly Roll get together on 'Holy Water' and BigXthaPlug and Ella Langley release their long teased duet 'Hell at Night.'

Nicholas Jamerson and Rachel Baiman are remembering 'How Sunday Feels' on their new duet and Baiman pops up again with Viv & Riley on their collaboration, kissing other ppl. Alex Warren and Luke Combs release their Lollapalooza duet, 'Ordinary,' and Philip Bowen and Julia DiGrazia give us the truly beautiful 'Hurricane.'

"I wrote 'Hurricane' about the long shadow that generational trauma leaves behind," says Bowen, "and the quiet strength it takes to survive it. I wanted to capture both the wreckage and the resilience, the kind of pain that lingers and the love that helps you through. It’s heartbreaking watching someone you love carry that weight — you want to be something solid for them, something that doesn’t break. There’s heartbreak and healing in this song, and I tried to wrap all of that into the storm we weather together."

We've got a few Chases in the playlist this week. We've got 'Find Myself' by Chase Wright, while Chase Rice releases 'Circa 1943' and Big Machine Records own Chase McDaniel wrestles with the possibility of a generational curse in 'My Side of The Family.'

One of our Holler tips for the top, Clover County releases the not-quite breakup song 'Good Game,' inspired by a relationship with a D-3 athlete with a god complex. Co-written by Will Taylor of Hovvdy, the song is indie twang at its absolute finest and just another reason to get very excited indeed about her debut album, Finer Things, due at the end of September.

Watch the lyric video for 'Good Game' below

Elsewhere we've got big new songs from Ole 60, Kylie Morgan, Georgia Ku, Gareth, Kip Moore, Lanie Gardner, Lily Rose and Mary Heather Hickman. Plus, Jessey Adams finally drops her viral smash, 'Old Appalachia.'

"This song is my love letter back to Appalachia," shares Adams. "Those mountains are my escape and the people there have taken me in like family."

Late last night Cameron Whitcomb officially announced the release of his long-awaited debut album, The Hard Way, for 26 September via Atlantic Records.

The Hard Way sees Whitcomb offering up a deeply personal look at his turbulent journey, from his struggles with addiction at a young age through to his recovery and adulthood. The album announcement is accompanied by his most emotionally raw single to date, 'Fragile.'

“'Fragile' is about being told to man up your whole childhood and pushing away everyone that cares because of your own insecurities,” shares Whitcomb. “It’s a song that came from a place of finally starting to understand why I was the way I was — and wanting to change that.”

Watch the video for 'Fragile' by Cameron Whitcomb below

It's quality over quantity this week when it comes to albums.

Charley Crockett releases his second album of 2025, Dollar A Day, via Island Records. Once again joined by creative kindred spirit and GRAMMY Award-winning co-producer Shooter Jennings, the new LP marks the second installment in The Sagebrush Trilogy, coming just five months after Lonesome Drifter, part one of the trilogy and his Island debut.

A truly singular artist who refracts various strains of American music through his incomparable prism, Dollar A Day may very well be the apex of his signature ‘Gulf & Western’ sound to date. Recorded at the fabled Sunset Sound Studio 3 in Hollywood, CA, with Crockett and Jennings once again helming the proceedings.

“With Shooter, I’ve never felt more like myself in the studio,” explains Crockett. “I don’t feel judged. At all. It’s truly a partnership. Hell, I’d say he’s my best friend, and you can’t aspire to greatness without that kind of trust. With Lonesome Drifter, it felt like we opened the portal. With Dollar A Day, we stepped through and came out the other side.”

We've got a new full length, Roll With the Punches, from Rebecca Porter, and Bailey Zimmerman drops his highly anticipated sophomore album, Different Night Same Rodeo, featuring already monster hits like 'Comin' In Cold,' 'Holy Smokes' and Hell or High Water,' and 'Backup Plan' featuring Luke Combs, as well as soon to be hits like 'When It Was' and the Kid LAROI collab, 'Lost.'

Different Night Same Rodeo follows the smash success of Zimmerman’s debut album Religiously. The Album. which had not only the biggest streaming debut for a country album in history, but the biggest all-genre streaming debut since 2021.

Ashley Monroe's new album Tennessee Lightning finds the Pistol Annie in good company with producer Gena Johnson and special guest appearances from T Bone Burnett, Brittney Spencer, Waylon Payne, Brendan Benson, Butch Walker, Karen Fairchild and Armand Hutton. The result is a rich, multifaceted meditation on identity, purpose, and meaning from an artist who’s learned to see herself - and the world around her - in a whole new light following a life-altering diagnosis.

“When I got diagnosed with lymphoma and started my treatment, I stopped writing, I stopped hearing melodies, I stopped thinking about songs at all,” Monroe recalls. For six months, she focused almost exclusively on her recovery and her family as she underwent a grueling regimen of injections and transfusions.

“When I finally went into remission, I could feel the life and the music start flowing in my veins again,” she explains. “It was like a flood, just this rush of inspiration.” Along with that inspiration came a newfound clarity and gratitude, as well as a vision for this new album.

“I feel like I’ve emerged from these last few years with a pretty profound perspective shift. I’ve learned to be more in the moment, to appreciate what’s right in front of me and enjoy every second I get to spend doing what I love with the people I care about.”

Hayes Carll releases his latest album, We’re Only Human, as he turns the songwriter mirror back on himself for the most deeply introspective, reflective work he has created to date. It’s a simultaneously joyful, liberating and unbelievably moving experience.

“The record was inspired by a desire to start listening to my inner voice rather than running from it," says Carll. "The songs are my way of solidifying the lessons I’ve learned, not because I have all the answers, but because I need the reminder that we're all only human.”

Watch a live performance of 'Progress of Man (Bitcoin & Cattle)' below

Every week we turn our Holler spotlight on a song that we're particularly smitten by and this week we can't get enough of 'Ghetto Days,' the brilliant new single from our favourite gangsta country popstar, Pillbox Patti. AKA Nicolette Hayford, the songwriter behind big songs by Little Big Town, Koe Wetzel, Lainey Wilson, Kylie Morgan, Meghan Patrick and Jon Wolfe, as well as countless hits for Ashley McBryde, and a star turn in the Lindeville project.

"I was having a nostalgia day," she shared about 'Ghetto Days.' "Missing the shitty little town that helped raise me. Lke yea there were a lot of drugs... but I never had to worry about a dirty bag, yea I was getting drunk in what some people might consider sketchy situations... I never worried about getting roofied… those things happened to me later in life and in better neighborhoods."

"I was just kinda missing getting a 25 cent single Newport and a 40 and not worrying about shit like, if I could legally get an abortion if I needed one," she adds. "My life was drastically different than it is now. But iIhopefully haven’t changed that much. We were all broke af... we were all doin a bunch of questionable shit... but everybody was cool... and sometimes I miss that.”

'Ghetto Days' is all the unexpected things we've come to expect from the Pillbox Patti and it's an absolute feast. A delicious all you can eat buffet of tinny hip hop beats, crunchy grunge guitars and '90s chart pop piled up on top of her insouciant country twang as she delivers another colourful portrayal of growing up on the gritty underside of suburban America.

Check out this week's new country and americana song releases and listen to the full playlist below:

1. 1.

   Fresh Hot Biscuits

   Joshua Hedley

2. 2.

   Losing Streak

   Margo Price

3. 3.

   Tennessee Quick Cash

   Charley Crockett

4. 4.

   Lost (feat. The Kid LAROI)

   Bailey Zimmerman

5. 5.

   Bowery (feat. Kings of Leon)

   Zach Bryan

6. 6.

   Hell At Night (feat. Ella Langley)

   BigXthaPlug

7. 7.

   Fragile

   Cameron Whitcomb

8. 8.

   Stay Here Awhile

   Hayes Carll

9. 9.

   Good Game

   Clover County

10. 10.

    Ghetto Days

    Pillbox Patti

11. 11.

    Holy Water (feat. Jelly Roll)

    Marshmello

12. 12.

    Really Wanna Know

    Ole 60

13. 13.

    Dumpster Diving

    Brennen Leigh

14. 14.

    How Sunday Feels

    Nicholas Jamerson and Rachel Baiman

15. 15.

    Turn Down the Lights

    Gavin Adcock

16. 16.

    Then You Happened

    Kylie Morgan

17. 17.

    Louisiana Stick (feat. Marcus King)

    Jordan Davis

18. 18.

    Will You Think About Me

    Maddie Lenhart

19. 19.

    Old Appalachia

    Jessey Adams

20. 20.

    Hurricane

    Philip Bowen and Julia DiGrazia

21. 21.

    Moth

    Ashley Monroe

22. 22.

    Middle Ground

    Georgia Ku

23. 23.

    Little Things

    Lauren Alaina

24. 24.

    Ordinary (feat. Luke Combs) Live at Lollapalooza

    Alex Warren

25. 25.

    A Man Holdin' On (To A Woman Lettin' Go)

    Ty Herndon and Ashley McBryde

26. 26.

    Hold on Magnolia

    Rachel Baiman and Viv & Riley

27. 27.

    My Side of the Family

    Chase McDaniel

28. 28.

    Shoulders I Stand On

    Gareth

29. 29.

    The Devil

    Rebecca Porter

30. 30.

    Smoke

    Mary Heather Hickman

31. 31.

    American Heartbreak

    Kip Moore

32. 32.

    How Long Does a Heartache

    Mitchell Ferguson

33. 33.

    Circa 1943

    Chase Rice

34. 34.

    Faded Polaroids

    Lanie Gardner

35. 35.

    Them Old Love Songs

    Jake Owen

36. 36.

    Straight For The Heart

    Alexandra Kay

37. 37.

    Of Course I Do

    Lily Rose

38. 38.

    Love Was Just a Feeling

    Colby Acuff

39. 39.

    Back on Deseret

    Brendan Walter

40. 40.

    i don't want your garden

    Hazlett

41. 41.

    pretty much

    MaRynn Taylor

42. 42.

    Find Myself

    CHASE WRIGHT

43. 43.

    Tell the Truth

    Callista Clark

44. 44.

    Still

    Clever

45. 45.

    Just For The Night

    Hueston

46. 46.

    ROUGH AROUND THE EDGES

    Casey Barnes

47. 47.

    Get Enough

    Noah Hicks

48. 48.

    Tequila Time

    Annie Bosko

49. 49.

    Only New York

    The Grahams

50. 50.

    Up and Down

    Chris Housman

51. 51.

    She's Good

    Brandon Wilsham

52. 52.

    When I Was Younger

    WILD HORSES

53. 53.

    Ceiling Fan

    Lauren Freebird

54. 54.

    Come Back Country

    Adam Warner

55. 55.

    Changing Seasons

    Hillary Reynolds

56. 56.

    Happy Hour

    MAKJ, Dustin Lynch and Bryce Vine

57. 57.

    Save Me From Myself

    Brent Morgan

58. 58.

    Fell Off the Wagon

    Struggle Jennings and Bryan Martin

59. 59.

    Hangman

    Cory Marks

60. 60.

    Red Dirt Girl - Acoustic Live

    The Castellows

61. 61.

    Friend Of Mine

    Dean Brody

62. 62.

    Livin' on a Backroad

    The Lacs

63. 63.

    Nuthin' But a Smile

    Drake White

64. 64.

    Walk on Water

    Nic D

65. 65.

    One More Cast

    Will Dempsey

66. 66.

    By My Side

    Bottomland

67. 67.

    Man Like Mine

    Karli June

68. 68.

    Swear Down

    Emmagen Rain

69. 69.

    backroads

    Jet Walker

70. 70.

    Works for Me

    Nathaniel Bellows

71. 71.

    Is it Me?

    Josh Forternbery

72. 72.

    Lookin Back

    Verna Margaret

73. 73.

    Recombination

    Kaneb Andrews

74. 74.

    Simple Side of Me

    Nicki Bluhm

75. 75.

    I Don't Not Love You

    Eleni Drake

76. 76.

    Angel

    Rianne Downey

77. 77.

    Blame Me

    Kris Londyn

78. 78.

    Come Around

    Whitney Fenimore

79. 79.

    Bittersweet

    Megan Nadin

80. 80.

    Losing You

    We Are Messengers

81. 81.

    Oh Child

    Blessing Offor

82. 82.

    Fool's Gold

    Son's of Habit

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