Country Music Features

From Jimi Hendrix to Bonnie Raitt, John Osborne joins Holler to pick six guitarists whose writing and playing have changed his life and influenced the artist he is today.

Empathy, a primary appeal of Tyler Childers’ songwriting, tends to be one of the first casualties of our modern, hyper-charged discourse. Through his music - both in the weightier meditations of his past records and newfound levity of Rustin' in the Rain - Childers continues to demonstrate that it’s possible to see the world through someone else’s eyes.

One of country music’s best kept songwriting secrets is stepping up to the microphone and singing his songs himself after writing huge hits for Jordan Davis, Chris Young, Blake Shelton, Chris Janson and Kenny Chesney

Born and raised in Canton, South Dakota, Tyler Halverson traveled West after college and discovered the hidden cowboy in him with a bunch of country songs that mix the wry wit of Kacey Musgraves with the rough, no frills approach of Zach Bryan

Max Clarke - aka Cut Worms - joins Holler following the release of his 2023 self-titled album to discuss his musical influences and the songs that shaped his career.

With their blend of noughties era hard rock and confessional country songwriting, Pecos & The Rooftops find themselves very much in the right place at the right time in country rock