May 3, 2024 8:19 am GMT
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It's Friday and that can only mean one thing! It's time for our weekly roundup of all the biggest and best new songs in country and Americana, and our playlist is absolutely chock-full of Holler friends and favourites this week!
The week’s cover star is the tough-as-nails, trailblazing queen of country music Miranda Lambert. Having just wrapped up her twice-extended, 48-show Velvet Rodeo residency in Las Vegas, the most awarded artist in Academy of Country Music history returns with her first single since signing with Republic Records in partnership with Big Loud.
For Miranda, this marks a significant time to be a woman in music and her new single, ‘Wranglers,’ doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to tellin’ it like it is.
“‘It’s a tale of a woman taking her power back,” she says. “I think we can all identify with the character in this song, because we have all had a time in our life that we needed to find a way to find our strength and also get a little revenge on someone that did us wrong or hurt us.”
“Music is and always will be the thing that drives me, but having a new home has given me a hunger I didn’t realize I still had inside me,” she adds. “This song feels like it could be on the same record as ‘Gunpowder & Lead’; it has that same fury.”
Megan Moroney stops teasing us and announces that her brand new album, Am I Okay? will be released on July 12th. The album will include '28th of June' and 'No Caller ID,' as well as her brand new single, 'Indifferent,' and 11 other songs that we're going to spend the next three months trying to decipher from the blurred out text on the image of the back cover.
Emily Nenni releases her brand new album, Drive & Cry, today, and you can read all about the follow up to On The Ranch in our full interview with her over on Holler.
Randy Travis releases his first new song in over a decade. 'Where That Came From' is classic Randy from start to finish. The North Carolina singer-songwriter has also been teasing that he has more new music on the way.
“You’ll hear much more about the special team of folks who came together to help make this magical moment in my career possible in the coming week," he wrote on his socials. "In the meantime, just know that when it comes to me singing songs for you, there’s always more where that came from. Thank you for singing along all these years”.
We've had our fingers crossed that we've got something new from Lauren Watkins on the way too, and it looks like her debut full length might be coming this Summer. She gives us a first taste of it with her new single 'Mama, I Made It,' released just in time for her biggest hometown show yet at Nashville's Nissan Stadium opening shows for Morgan Wallen this weekend.
“I've been dying for y'all to hear this one,” Watkins shared on socials last night, . “Hope ya love it.”
One of our favourite new country traditionalists, Mac Cornish releases her new 8 track album, Never Made Much of a Lover, and Logan Crosby revisits his teenage dreams on his new single, '2019.'
“2019 was the year I graduated from high school and went to college,” he says. “That was the first time I ever left Milledgeville, took my guitar out and started playing for people I didn’t know. It was the beginning of the whole journey for me as an artist.”
Carter Faith follows up the sublime 'Late Bloomer' with the equally brilliant 'Strong Stuff.'
“This song is basically my going out to the bar and looking to find someone to flirt with theme song," Carter Faith told Holler. "I’m someone who can be a lot to handle and I’m only into men who like it that way.”
Melissa Carper is back! She premiered her new single, 'Lucky Five,' exclusively on Holler on Thursday and gave us a taste of her forthcoming album, Borned In Ya, due out in July.
The album title is taken from a Ralph Stanley quote that Carper came across watching an old DVD of Down From the Mountain, the documentary and concert film of the O, Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack.
“I don’t think you can get this sound unless it’s borned in ya,” the bluegrass legend says at one point in the documentary when asked about what he called “old-time mountain music.”
When Melissa Carper heard those words, something jumped inside her. She immediately jotted down ‘borned in ya’ on a piece of paper. “I knew I had to write that song,” she recalls.
“I was turning over in my mind what it means to have something ‘borned in ya’,” Carper says. “The song evolved as I was writing it to be more about having your soul 'borned in ya,' and the more life experience you have, you hopefully grow to embody the highest version of yourself that you can be.”
Kelsey Waldon continues to tease her new 8-song album, There’s Always A Song, as she pulls from classic country and bluegrass songbooks to reimagine the works that made her the musician she is now.
Having already teamed up with Amanda Shires and S.G. Goodman, the latest song to be lifted from the project finds her sharing the stage with longtime friend Margo Price on a version of ‘Traveling the Highway Home.’
Holler got a sneak preview of their duet when we saw Kelsey Waldon opening up for Margo Price in January and it’s got us even more excited for the album later in the month.
“It is so special to have my friend, the force that is Margo Price, singing this song with me,” Waldon says. “We have both come such a long way since the earliest days of our friendship, and it's been a wild ride and there's still so many more memories to go. Who knows more about ‘Travelin' the Highway Home’ than us? She is my fellow road dog and partner in crime. I'm very grateful she lended some vocals to this song. Life is too short to not make music, travel, and get through it all with your friends.”
They're not the only friends making sweet music together. Keith Urban joins forces with Lainey Wilson for 'GO HOME W U' and Kane Brown and Marshmello release 'Miles On It.'
The new album from Tenille Arts is out today, and we've got the title track, 'To Be Honest,' in our playlist for you.
“As always, I went to music to process what I was going through,” Tenille told us about writing the album. “These 14 songs share a truly honest take of where I’ve been in the past couple of years. I hope that when people listen they know that it’s okay to not be okay sometimes… and that there’s still so much happy and beautiful even in the hard times. I owe my fans something deeply real and I owe myself something deeply real. Thank you for taking the time to listen!"
Elsewhere we've got new ones from Russell Dickerson, Kameron Marlowe, Bella White, Ty Myers, Alyssa Bonagura, American Aquarium, Adeem the Artist and The Avett Brothers.
Check out this week's new country song releases and listen to the full playlist below:
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Wranglers
Miranda Lambert
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Indifferent
Megan Moroney
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Traveling the Highway Home
Kelsey Waldon and Margo Price
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Mama, I Made It
Lauren Watkins
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Where That Came From
Randy Travis
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Rootin For You
Emily Nenni
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Strong Stuff
Carter Faith
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Lucky Five
Melissa Carper
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To Be Honest
Tenille Arts
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What It Is
Emily Zeck
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2019
Logan Crosby
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GO HOME W U (WITH LAINEY WILSON)
Keith Urban
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On My Way Out
Kameron Marlowe
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Static
Caitlyn Smith
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I'll Find A Way (To Carry It All)
Bella White
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Good Day To Have A Great Day
Russell Dickerson
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Too Far Gone
Ty Myers
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Let Your Horses Run
Brett Kissel
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No Stoppin' This Train
Alyssa Bonagura
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Crier
American Aquarium
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Mean Girl
Nelly Joy
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Miles on It
Kane Brown and Marshmello
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Kryptonite
Erin Gibney
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Forever Now
The Avett Brothers
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Nightmare
Adeem the Artist
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Tennessee
Sam Palladio and Chris Shiflett
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Mama Yes I Do
Mac Cornish
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Tomorrow's Good Ol' Days (feat. Ben Haggard)
Jesse Daniel
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Get Out Of This Town
Troy Cartwright
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Honeymoon and Back
Kaylee Rose
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If You Killed Somebody
Abby Anderson
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Outlaw
Jessie Wilson
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Burn My Summer
Kelsey Hart
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All This Could Be Yours
Tyler Booth
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Dear Mama
Rvshvd
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A Small Town Near You
Nick Nash
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Scared of the Dark
Colby Acuff
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What I Shoulda Done
Mae Estes
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Pretty Dang Good
Tracy Lawrence
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First
Chase Matthew
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Harlan Road
Lathan Bryant
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Tequila Helps
Julia Cole
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Holy Ground
Roan Ash
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Hang Your Hat
Jenna Paulette
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What's One More
Nic D
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Sun Sets
Carson Wallace
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Hall Of Fame
Jake Banfield
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One More
Tim Hicks
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Dreamers Drifters and Hiders
Calder Allen
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Break Your Heart
Alaina Stacey
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Whiskey in the Bottle
Scotty Hasting
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The Witch
Kaia Kater and Aoife O'Donovan
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Work on Loving You
Alex Mather
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Last Night's Perfume
Jordan James
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Her Strut
Clare Dunn
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Leave the Light On
Elles Bailey
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Heart Broke
Norman North
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Had To Be There
Melane Dyer
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Bluegrass Green
Jonathan Hutcherson
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Why Do We Stay?
Stephanie Quayle
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Written by Jof Owen
