Country Music Features

INTRODUCING•Video Premiere: Kelley Mickwee - Gold Standard

‘Golden Standard’ sounds gloriously bold and timeless, with all the melodrama and aching of a lost Billy Sherrill recording, as Kelley Mickwee lets her inner Connie Smith rip on this belting country ballad.

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INTERVIEW•Under The Apple Tree & Holler Sessions: Jack Francis

Holler are proud to present a monthly series of live sessions in partnership with Under The Apple Tree. This March, it's a pleasure to introduce you to the soulful Jack Francis.

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INTRODUCING•Single Premiere: Alannah McCready - Can I Call

A breezy duet that digs into the emotional tussle of a long-distance relationship and the loneliness of being in love but living on two separate coasts.

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INTERVIEW•New Artist Of The Week: Jack Barksdale

The 14-year-old, Fort Worth, Texas-based Americana singer-songwriter is set to release his first full-length studio album, Death of a Hummingbird, on March 4; an album of such incredible scope and beauty it belies his age.

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INTERVIEW•The Kernal: The Other Side of Country

The history of country music has always been written by its misfits; the square pegs that refuse to fit into the round holes that the industry carved out for them. The Kernal has become pivotal for a certain type of non-conformist country music coming out of unexpected places all across America.

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INTRODUCING•Album Premiere: Anne Elise Hastings and Her Revolving Cast of Characters - Unmasking A Confidence Trickster

With the bittersweet twang of old school country, Anne Elise Hastings and her band mix up her Appalachian roots with New Orleans' ramshackle street corner sensibilities for an album of meticulously crafted alt-country standards