Best New Country Songs

It's been another whirlwind week in the world of country and Americana. Megan Moroney has announced her new studio album, Cloud 9, for next February, George Strait has unveiled his blockbuster Texas show for 2026 and a weird country robot seems to have topped the Billboard charts. All that, plus we've been celebrating some more of our favourite human artists in our monthly 10 Artists You Need to Know feature.

In this week's round up of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and Americana we've got big new songs from Carly Pearce, Hudson Westbrook, Kashus Culpepper and many more.

Listen along with the playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon.

This week's Best New Country cover star is Ashley Cooke! She releases her brand new project, ace, today and it's got us all in our feels.

Nine songs of heart breaks and aches as she dives into the hard times she has experienced over the past year or so, from loss of love and close relatives to health issues with her parents and self - ace is a direct reflection of Ashley's experiences through her music.

“Growing up, my dad gave me this nickname: Ace," Ashley explains about the inspiration behind the album. "I’m not sure if it was his love of blackjack or because it’s kind of my initials, but nonetheless, it just stuck. It makes me think of the person that I am, truly, to my core, behind closed doors."

"It’s been about two and a half years since my debut record was released. So many incredible, bucket-list things filled the days after with the best people I could ever imagine getting to share them with. But life has a funny way of spitting rain when you think it’s gonna be a sunny day. I swear, one thing hit after another. I lost some of the most important people in my life, and health issues in my family piled up left and right. Love came, and love went."

"This music is derived from those real situations. It’s brutal honesty. It’s a story in chronological order. And it’s a collection of songs welcoming you to the next chapter. This is ace. Make yourself at home.”

We're kicking off our Best New Country playlist with the positively upbeat, the highly anticipated fan-favourite 'baby blues.'

Watch the video for 'baby blues' below.

Elsewhere in this week's Best New Country we've got new songs from Waylon Wyatt, Caroline Jones and Clay Street Unit. Plus, we've even squeezed in a Christmas song for those of you who are already feeling in the mood for a little festive fun as Luke Bryan and Ella Langley go for a little stroll through the Bing Crosby classic 'Winter Wonderland.'

Emily Scott Robinson releases the second track from her forthcoming album Appalachia album due out in January on Oh Boy Records. 'Dirtbag Saloon,' which Robinson calls “a honky tonk anti-gentrification anthem,” was inspired by her years in Telluride, Colorado, and the town’s transformation as longtime residents were priced out.

“One day I was walking the alleys of Telluride with my partner Colin, and we saw the old ‘Smurf House’ being torn down to make way for another empty vacation home,” Robinson recalls. “Colin said, ‘If it ain’t gone yet, it’s going soon,’ and my songwriter ears perked right up. The verses ended up set in Linda’s, the last great locals’ bar on the western slope. It’s covered in doilies and Victorian dolls—and it’s our Brigadoon.”

We've got hits aplenty from our 10 Artists You Need to Know alumni this week with new songs from Tyce Delk, WESKO, Zach John King, Chandler Walters and Blake Whiten. While Sydney Quiseng is taking us to a 'Coffee Shop in Kyoto' on her positively life affirming new single.

"This is a song about serendipity," Quiseng says. "Life has the coolest way of bringing you exactly where you need to be. I have been to Japan 18 times in the past 10 years so it holds a very special place in my heart and I started to pick up some Japanese along the way. So what better way to sing a song about things falling into place at a coffee shop in Kyoto than to sing in Japanese?"

Kashus Culpepper is looking deep 'In Her Eyes' on his latest single, Troy Cartwright is serving up 'Whiskey Ginger' and Tyler Halverson is hoping he'll 'Smoke You Out' on the third single from his recently announced debut album, In Defense Of Drinking, which is slated for a February 2026 release. Meanwhile Taylor Austin Dye is commemorating Veteran's Day and the childhood wars fought with the brilliant 'Little Green Men'.

Watch the video below

All that plus new songs from Ryan Larkins, Matt Schuster, Kaleb Sanders, Ashley Anne and Eva Ricci, who releases her powerful new single 'It's Not Me, It's You.'

"This song is about calling it like it is," she says. "And in this case: it's not me, it's you."

If you're feeling the cold kicking in then let Natalie Del Carmen transport you off to sunnier days with her new single 'June, You’re on My Mind,' capturing the bittersweet nostalgia of loving someone even when you don’t want to.

“The song is about finding the unwelcome presence of a significant part of your life in the corners of your own emotional attic,” Natalie shares, “neatly packed away but never truly gone for good.”

This week's big new country album comes from Colter Wall. Born of the same humble songs for which the Canadian singer is so beloved, Memories and Empties, highlights his signature, gravelly baritone with a honky tonk swagger, thanks, partly, to the studio in which it was recorded, Nashville’s time-honoured RCA Studio A.

Produced by Wall and Pat Lyons who are joined by the Colter Wall touring band, The Scary Prairie Boys, Memories and Empties speaks for itself; a country music album alive with piano, fiddle, and steel guitar, and devoid of anything that might get in the way of that. Read our full Holler first impression of the album here.

Elsewhere we've got songs from new full-length albums by Muscadine Bloodline and Vince Gill, plus lots of new EPs from Max McNown, Orville Peck, Jake O’Neill, Whitney Lusk, Kaitlin Butts, and of course Kelsea Ballerini, who releases her new Mount Pleasant EP today. Plus, Jessie Murph gives Sex Hysteria the deluxe treatment with a whole album of extra songs and Cameron Whitcomb adds six songs to The Hard Way.

Each week we like to shine our Holler spotlight on a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we're lighting up one of our 10 Artists You Need to Know for November.

Meels releases her new single 'Willow Song' today

"I wrote 'Willow Song' when I was living in New York City, deeply longing for home in California," she shares. "The redwood trees and the sense of calm being surrounded by nature provides me. Needless to say, I found out I was not a city girl at heart, although I still love NYC in doses now and then. It will always be a home to me as well, but never as much as my home state."

"I hope 'Willow Song' brings some peace to people in this crazy world we’re living in," she adds. "Go hug a tree today!!

Like everything she does, the music video is a magical experience in itself, inspired by John Denver’s performance of 'Garden Song' on The Muppet Show in 1979.

"I wanted to have my own Muppets moment, and I am so happy with how it came out," she explains. "We shot it on an old vintage tube camera to make it feel really authentic to the time period."

Watch the video for 'Willow Song' below.

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

1. 1.

   baby blues

   Ashley Cooke

2. 2.

   Memories and Empties

   Colter Wall

3. 3.

   Dream Come True

   Carly Pearce

4. 4.

   Emerald City

   Kelsea Ballerini

5. 5.

   Goose Chase

   Muscadine Bloodline

6. 6.

   Willow Song

   Meels

7. 7.

   Man To Man

   Wesko

8. 8.

   73 Fair

   Noah James

9. 9.

   Frostbite

   Waylon Wyatt

10. 10.

    Little Green Men

    Taylor Austin Dye

11. 11.

    Both Sides of the Blade

    Max McNown

12. 12.

    Problem

    Cameron Whitcomb

13. 13.

    Called It

    Hannah McFarland

14. 14.

    If He Wanted To

    Hudson Westbrook

15. 15.

    couch surfing

    Ashley Anne

16. 16.

    Rollin'

    Clay Street Unit

17. 17.

    Red Wine Supernova

    Kaitlin Butts

18. 18.

    Dirtbag Saloon

    Emily Scott Robinson

19. 19.

    Coffee Shop in Kyoto

    Sydney Quiseng

20. 20.

    Happy For You

    Zach John King

21. 21.

    Wildflowers and Wine

    Jessie Murph

22. 22.

    June, You're On My Mind

    Natalie Del Carmen

23. 23.

    Somewhere Down In Texas

    Flatland Cavalry

24. 24.

    Caroline

    Jay Buchanan

25. 25.

    What I Want

    Ashley Kutcher

26. 26.

    Enough Ain't Enough

    Tyce Delk

27. 27.

    Footing

    Brenn!

28. 28.

    In Her Eyes

    Kashus Culpepper

29. 29.

    SOMEONE YOU DON'T WANNA KNOW

    Lane Smith and Ashley Walls

30. 30.

    All Dressed Up

    Leah Blevins

31. 31.

    Good Omen

    Caroline Jones

32. 32.

    Oh My Days

    Orville Peck

33. 33.

    Smoke You Out

    Tyler Halverson

34. 34.

    I'll Be Watching

    Brady Brazeal

35. 35.

    All I Need Is You

    Chandler Walters

36. 36.

    Winter Wonderland (with Ella Langley)

    Luke Bryan

37. 37.

    You In Mind

    Ryan Larkins

38. 38.

    Night N' Day

    Blake Whiten

39. 39.

    It's Not Me, It's You

    Eva Ricci

40. 40.

    Home

    Josh Meloy

41. 41.

    Sugar, Prozac & Beer (feat. Jonah Kagen)

    Elliot Greer

42. 42.

    Where You Call Home

    NEEDTOBREATHE

43. 43.

    Holdin' You, Lovin' You

    Chayce Beckham

44. 44.

    Can't Help Myself

    Kevin Powers

45. 45.

    Secondhand Smoke

    Vince Gill

46. 46.

    Serpent Lullaby

    The Brudi Brothers

47. 47.

    Fillin' My Cup

    Jay Webb

48. 48.

    Hemingway

    Tayler Holder

49. 49.

    Sit In My Sleep

    Matt Schuster

50. 50.

    We Got Company

    Blackberry Smoke

51. 51.

    Phone Call From Home

    Owen Riegling

52. 52.

    The Exception

    Katie Pearlman and Lola Kirke

53. 53.

    After Midnight (feat. Tyler Hubbard)

    Nate Smith

54. 54.

    Off the Road

    Eddie and The Getaway

55. 55.

    Sorry

    Lakeview

56. 56.

    Long Black Hearse

    Nate Bergman and Noah Gundersen

57. 57.

    Keep It 100

    Austin Tolliver

58. 58.

    Girl Song

    Anna Shoemaker

59. 59.

    Whiskey Ginger

    Troy Cartwright

60. 60.

    365

    Filmore

61. 61.

    Deep End

    Peech.

62. 62.

    Down To Earth

    Levi Hummon

63. 63.

    Raised Up Wrong (feat. Chris Janson)

    Dillon Carmichael

64. 64.

    IDWK

    Madden Metcalf

65. 65.

    Come Home

    Brooke Lee

66. 66.

    Almost Nearly There

    Garrison Nunn

67. 67.

    On Fire

    Langhorne Slim

68. 68.

    Cowboy Dreams (feat. Cat Clyde)

    Boy Golden

69. 69.

    Roadwork

    Kaleb Sanders

70. 70.

    Still Know How To Love You

    Roan Ash

71. 71.

    The Way I Remember You

    Melissa Carper and Theo Lawrence

72. 72.

    Hit the Ground

    Magnolia Rising

73. 73.

    An Hour or So

    Benny G

74. 74.

    Boy Back Home

    Amy Alexander

75. 75.

    Honkytonk Degree

    Ed Earl

76. 76.

    I Said Fire

    Alejandro Preschel

77. 77.

    Lonely Mornings

    Sammy Brue

78. 78.

    God Winks

    Annie Bosko and Amy Grant

79. 79.

    My Baby's Got Good Timing

    Dan Seals and Jasmine Amy Rogers

80. 80.

    MAKERS

    Drew Taylor

81. 81.

    Kiss My Ass

    NORA.

82. 82.

    Gold

    Mitchell Ferguson

83. 83.

    Flowers in Concrete

    Dylan Ault

84. 84.

    Heartbreak Proof

    Jake O'Neill

85. 85.

    Riverbottoms Road

    Whitney Lusk

86. 86.

    Country Song

    Jagger Whitaker

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