Country Music Features

INTRODUCING•Premiere: Joshua Dylan Balis - 'Lydia'

Leaning into the stadium-sized grandeur of War on Drugs and Tom Petty, as well as the lyrical brilliance of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, 'Lydia' is a blissful slice of breezy heartland Americana; the kind of song that plays while the credits roll on a coming-of-age movie.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Hannah Juanita - 'Girl, Where You From?'

Front and centre in the march of alt-country traditionalists on Nashville, Hannah Juanita is back waving the banner for her brand of bare-knuckle throwback country, as she boldly reimagines classic honky tonk for the 2020s.

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INTERVIEW•In Conversation: Leyla McCalla

"For me, making music is very intuitive. I wasn’t thinking, I want to expand what Americana is. Honestly, I find it remarkable that this music is considered Americana."

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INTRODUCING•Bob Sumner: Video Premiere - 'Broken Record'

‘Broken Record’ is a song for the bottom of that first bottle and the first few sips of the second; for those nights when all you want to do is sit there and soak it up in a bar that feels like home.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Leon Timbo - 'Never Too Much'

Taking the peppy R&B swagger of the Luther Vandroos original, slowing it right down and reworking it as an otherworldly country-soul spiritual, Leon Timbo pulls something deep and powerfully life-affirming from the song.

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INTERVIEW•The Songs That Changed My Life: Caroline Spence

Tasked with celebrating special songs, Caroline Spence turns the dial back to her youth and those essential cuts that forever changed her relationship with music and set her down the songwriting path.