Best New Country Songs

Holler is declaring 2026 officially open for business with a bumper week of new releases. We've got a whopping great 100 new songs from the world of country and Americana for you this week including new songs from Megan Moroney, Zach Bryan and Brothers Osborne as well as loads more.

Listen along to our Best New Country playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon.

This week's Best New Country cover stars are GRAMMY-nominated, neo-traditional country trailblazers and Holler favourites Midland, who look back to a lost era of masculinity with their new song 'Marlboro Man.'

An emotionally closed off cowboy smoking cigarettes who embodied the spirit of the frontier, freedom and individualism, the Marlboro Man was an iconic figure in tobacco advertising from the 1950s onwards, and on their first new single of 2026, Midland are wondering ruefully if they're paying the price for their own tendency to behave in relationships like that stoic post-war Marlboro Man.

"Ain't much changed in all this time / Still leavin' everything I love behind," Mark Wystrach sings on the creamy mid-tempo honky tonker. "Too much pride to need a thing / But this hat, these boots, these worn-out jeans / Mountains in the background, hell of a view / But all I see is me missin' you / Just cussin' myself for who I am / Alone again like that damn Marlboro Man."

Penned by powerhouse songwriters Dean Dillon, Tim Nichols, and Josh Thompson and produced by Trent Willmon, 'Marlboro Man' is an anthem for the red dirt drifter; a wistful, stubborn tune about the freedom, grit, and loneliness of living like the 'Marlboro® Man.'

Watch the video for 'Marlboro Man' below

It's an absolutely huge week for new singles this week and they don't come much bigger in country music than Megan Moroney. She unleashes her outrageously catchy new anthem 'Wish I Didn’t' along with a music video co-starring reality TV star Dylan Efron.

The the third track released from the country superstar’s upcoming third studio album Cloud 9 - due out on February 20 - it's a fiery but feel-good warning to a walking red flag which perfectly encapsulates the overall spirit of Cloud 9, a 15-song heavy-hitter Moroney describes as “written by the strongest, most confident version of myself I’ve ever been.”

Directed by Lauren Dunn, the official music video for the song is as a modern-day update of the action-comedy classic Mr. & Mrs. Smith, with Moroney and Efron playing the parts of a seemingly perfect married couple living secret double lives as competing assassins.

Watch the video for 'Wish I Didn't' below

Flatland Cavalry release their new single 'Never Comin’ Back' via Lost Highway. Written by Flatland frontman Cleto Cordero with Luke Laird and Aaron Raitiere, the heartland heartbreaker masks itself as an uptempo toe-tapper with Flatland’s signature Texas traditional instrumentation taking center stage. Upon closer examination, its straightforward lyrics narrate a lonely, remorseful breakup.

18-year-old rising star Ty Myers has announced the upcoming release of his sophomore album, Heavy On The Soul for March. A potent evolution of Myers’ straight-from-the-heart songwriting and commanding musicality, Heavy On The Soul came to life at Alabama’s legendary FAME Recording Studios and the first taste of it comes with 'Message To You.'

"I wrote ‘Message to You' in Barbados," says Myers. "I woke up in the middle of the night with a song idea and wrote it in about 25 minutes. Then I went back to sleep. When it pours out, it just pours out.”

One of our 20 Artists for 2026 Colton Bowlin has also announced his new album, Grandpa’s Mill, for 13 and shares a new song, 'Clinton County,' ahead of the album today.

“A song that looks back on small-town roots and the fast-passing years," Bowlin says about the song. "It captures the pull between chasing dreams and longing for the hills that raised you.”

Produced by David Ferguson (Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson) and tracked at Chase Park Transduction Studios in Athens, GA, Grandpa’s Mill serves as a deeply personal tribute to Bowlin’s upbringing, inspired by the feed mill where he spent much of his youth and first discovered country music, began writing songs, and absorbed the storytelling that continues to shape his sound.

Reflecting on the project, Bowlin shares, “It's a soundtrack to the place that made me and the stories I’ll never leave behind.”

Watch the video for 'Clinton County' below

We've got some supersized collaborations for you this week including Dolly Parton who brings in some fellow legends for a new rendition of her 1977 classic 'Light of a Clear Blue Morning.' Lainey Wilson, Miley Cyrus, Reba McEntire and Queen Latifah join the queen of country with all proceeds going towards pediatric cancer research at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.

Meanwhile, Australian-born, Nashville-based country mainstay Morgan Evans teams up with Geffen Records’ acclaimed singer-songwriter Laci Kaye Booth on new duet. Written by Evans with Fraser Churchill, Chris DeStefano, Sean Mofit, and Sam Moses, 'Two Broken Hearts' is a stripped back admission. Evans and Booth’s soulful harmonies entangle over raw, vulnerable truths.

We've got a brilliant new single from Olivia Barnes, who follows up 'Oyster Song' and 'Marry Mississippi' from last year with 'Reds' as she continues her string of perfect country folk singles. While Trey Pendley releases his intriguingly titled ‘Podunk,' a love letter to his hometown of Toad Suck, Arkansas, all backroad pride, busted knuckles, and loud nights under small-town skies. It’s rowdy, unapologetic, and speaks to the small-town chaos kids across the country know by heart.

“Podunk is essentially me owning every part of where I’m from," shares Pendley. "The good, the bad, and the sometimes hilarious. Those experiences shaped how I see the world and now, how I write songs. When I realized this song sums up my past in that way, it made sense to name the whole EP after it. This project is for the people who grew up the same way I did and never tried to be nothin’ different.”

We've got new songs from Buffalo Traffic Jam, Chase Matthew, Braxton Keith, Matt Schuster, Larry Fleet and Caroline Jones. Plus, 16-year-old country star Maddox Batson begins a new chapter with his first release of 2026, 'Any Other Night' as he marks the first in a string of upcoming releases from him.

"I'm so stoked about my new single and the music video for ‘Any Other Night,’” Batson enthuses. “This was an amazing collaboration with some great writers, Jacob Hackworth and Jesse Frasure. Just really good guys, and great Nashville songwriters. We wanted to tap into my age group's normal vibes and what it's like choosing between that and your crush. It has a great feel, and I'm looking forward to the fans’ reaction.”

Brit-country up-and-comer Owen Morton is giving fans another taste of his forthcoming Nashville-recorded album with his honky tonk heartbreak anthem ‘She Hates Country Music,' a sharp-witted, barroom story song that flips all those country lovin' songs we love on their head.

“Rob and I wrote this knowing that at some point in our pasts, we had definitely ruined country music for someone out there," he laughingly says about this track, written with London-based songwriter Robin Cooper. "And so, why not rub it in even more by writing a song about it.”

That's the spirit, lads!

We've got all that plus a Carter Faith and William Beckmann duet on the swoonsome 'Lay Your Heartaches Onto Mine' for the forthcoming Landman collection along with new songs from Lee Ann Womack, Dalton Davis and Kassi Ashton that will also feature in the show on Sunday.

We've got a stunning new album from country folk singer songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews with her new 10-track record, Valentine. Written during a period of profound endings and new beginnings, the album was recorded to tape in Los Angeles and it's her most fully realised and beautiful record to date.

“It's a record in pursuit of love,” says Andrews. “But love, it turns out, is a lot more than I gave it credit for... I was in one of the darkest periods of my life, and songs were the only way I could reckon with it.”

To accompany the release, Andrews has shared an intimate live performance of 'Everyone Wants to Feel Like You Do'

“This is the kind of person who lives in a world solely of their own puppeteering,” says Andrews. “The person whose life has the main character energy. The privileged kind, unconcerned with the marginalized. In the guitar solo, I wanted to play like someone with this entitlement; someone unaware of their effect on others.”

Watch the official music video for 'Everyone Wants to Feel Like You Do' recorded live in Nashville below

Los Angeles singer-songwriter Ali Angel releases her debut album, Is This Really Happening? and perfectly captures that comforting, everyday magic of realising you've found your perfect love match in the same person over and over again every day. Blending soulful Americana, 90s nostalgia, and indie twang, Angel explores themes of kismet, emotional honesty, duality, healing, physical and spiritual connection, and two people growing in tandem. Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles, the album moves through the full spectrum of romantic love—from newness and excitement to vulnerability, grounding and deep devotion.

Elsewhere, Brothers Gus and Phin Johnson, known for their blend of bluegrass, folk and classic 90s country, release the brilliant Geneva today, adding another five songs to their previously released singles for a 12-track coming-of-age country classic and Hayes Carll gives his latest album the deluxe treatment with three new songs, including 'If We Don't Try' featuring Ashley McBryde.

Every 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 spotlighting Tenille Townes, who returns with 'Enabling,' a quietly devastating new song that confronts the emotional cost of loving someone at the expense of yourself as she gives the Year of the Horse its first big anthem.

“This song is me confronting a lifelong habit of putting others’ needs above my own," Townes says. "Writing it helped me realize that love isn’t self-sacrifice… sometimes the most loving thing you can do is stand your ground and choose yourself."

"It also came from realizing how often I’d lost myself trying to rescue the people I loved," she adds. "I spent so much of my life reading the room, changing myself to keep everyone happy, and avoiding my own feelings in the process. This song is the moment I finally saw that pattern clearly and chose to set boundaries: to love others without abandoning myself.”

Written after an attempted apology from someone she loved, 'Enabling' explores the instinct to step in, smooth things over, and confuse endurance with devotion. With striking clarity, Townes turns the focus inward, recognizing how people-pleasing and emotional rescue can become a form of self-abandonment. Rather than assigning blame, the song is rooted in self-awareness and resolve, capturing the moment when empathy collides with self-preservation, and when boundaries stop feeling like distance and begin to resemble care.

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

1. 1.

   Marlboro Man

   Midland

2. 2.

   Wish I Didn't

   Megan Moroney

3. 3.

   Never Comin' Back

   Flatland Cavalry

4. 4.

   Lay Your Heartaches Onto Mine

   Carter Faith and William Beckmann

5. 5.

   Message To You

   Ty Myers

6. 6.

   Clinton County

   Colton Bowlin

7. 7.

   Podunk

   Trey Pendley

8. 8.

   If We Don't Try

   Hayes Carll and Ashley McBryde

9. 9.

   American Made

   Larry Fleet

10. 10.

    What Could Go Wrong

    Julia Cole

11. 11.

    enabling

    Tenille Townes

12. 12.

    Two Broken Hearts

    Morgan Evans and Laci Kaye Booth

13. 13.

    Light of a Clear Blue Morning

    Dolly Parton, Lainey Wilson, Reba McEntire, Queen Latifah and Miley Cyrus

14. 14.

    I Ain't Tryin'

    Braxton Keith

15. 15.

    Reds

    Olivia Barnes

16. 16.

    I Don't Care

    Buffalo Traffic Jam

17. 17.

    Everyone Wants To Feel Like You Do

    Courtney Marie Andrews

18. 18.

    Appalachian Ohio

    Low Gap

19. 19.

    Come on Through

    Ali Angel

20. 20.

    Love The Lonely Out Of You - Live Pinebox Version

    Brothers Osborne

21. 21.

    Say Why - Acoustic

    Zach Bryan

22. 22.

    Don't Include Me (American Dream)

    Michael Marcagi

23. 23.

    Heard That

    Baylee Lynn

24. 24.

    You're It For Me, Honey.

    Caroline Jones

25. 25.

    Friend

    Chris Lane

26. 26.

    Any Other Night

    Maddox Batson

27. 27.

    Grassoline

    Morgan Nagler

28. 28.

    Rain In Texas

    Kassi Ashton

29. 29.

    I Love This Town

    Jameson Rodgers

30. 30.

    Clean Slate

    Grace Tyler

31. 31.

    Cowboy - Stripped

    Lily Meola and Nikki Lane

32. 32.

    Holdin' It Down

    Chase Matthew

33. 33.

    She Hates Country Music

    Owen Morton

34. 34.

    Fireproof

    Dalton Davis

35. 35.

    Bad Habits

    Josh Meloy

36. 36.

    Pick Your Reason

    Sterling Elza

37. 37.

    Woman

    Matt Schuster

38. 38.

    I Don't Shine

    Antonio Larosa

39. 39.

    Nothing Comes Easy

    Joy Oladokun

40. 40.

    Stuck On You

    Dave Fenley

41. 41.

    Middle Of A Storm

    Lee Ann Womack

42. 42.

    Somewhere Down the Road

    John Hollier and the Rêverie

43. 43.

    Ryan's Song

    Ashley Ryan

44. 44.

    Where I'm From

    Dalton Dover and Bryce Leatherwood

45. 45.

    Lethal

    Roman Alexander

46. 46.

    Never Coming Back

    Rachel Fahim

47. 47.

    Shoot Me Down

    Alex Lambert

48. 48.

    Waves

    Matt Koziol

49. 49.

    Buckle Up

    Cody Lohden

50. 50.

    I Thought Love Meant

    Natalie Jane Hill

51. 51.

    Bad Habits and Good Horses

    Julianna Rankin

52. 52.

    I'll Hold You

    Drayton Farley

53. 53.

    I Wish I Loved Myself

    Citycreed

54. 54.

    Florida On My Mind

    Kyle Clark

55. 55.

    If We Didn't

    Canaan Cox

56. 56.

    Dancing with the Devil

    Matt Cooper

57. 57.

    Always Be The One

    Tebey

58. 58.

    What I Want

    Catherine Britt

59. 59.

    On Again

    Grant Gilbert

60. 60.

    Neon Midnight Mass

    Andrew Hyatt

61. 61.

    She Stole My Truck

    Matt Lang

62. 62.

    Get Away Now

    Avery Roberson

63. 63.

    Little Brother

    Tyler Dial

64. 64.

    Tear Down This Town

    Matt Jordan

65. 65.

    Bloody Nails

    Joe Bryson

66. 66.

    Bigger Picture - Demo

    Trannie Anderson

67. 67.

    Lullabies

    Grace Gunn

68. 68.

    So Damn Free

    Logan Crosby

69. 69.

    She's Nobody

    Shleby Raye

70. 70.

    Like My Hometown

    Madden Metcalf

71. 71.

    Knew You Then

    Ty Wilson and Mason Keck

72. 72.

    Chisolm Trail Nightingales

    Gloria Anderson

73. 73.

    New Her

    Bri Fletcher

74. 74.

    (Don't) Trust A Cowboy

    Clarke Burns

75. 75.

    Nights are Forever Without You

    Sara Evans & Dan Seals

76. 76.

    Welcome To My Villain Era

    India Ramey

77. 77.

    Hi, I'm The Preacher's Son

    Foy Vance

78. 78.

    Brand New Heartache

    Yonder Mountain String Band

79. 79.

    Gut Feeling

    Kezia Gill

80. 80.

    Keep Out Of The Storm

    The Sheepdogs

81. 81.

    Back on My Bullshit

    Sadie Bass

82. 82.

    Take the Cake

    The Band Of Heathens

83. 83.

    Millionaire

    Big Richard

84. 84.

    jamie xx

    vegas water taxi

85. 85.

    Like a Child

    Boy Golden

86. 86.

    Outta Here

    Odd Marshall

87. 87.

    Like a Man

    Chandler Marie

88. 88.

    Subatomic

    Aubrie Sellers

89. 89.

    Worth Your While

    Matthew Goodnough

90. 90.

    the world ends at the edge of this town

    rory o'neill

91. 91.

    Don't Sleep On Your Dreams

    Jeremy Ivey

92. 92.

    Magnolia

    Brandon Lane Moore

93. 93.

    All the Rest

    Memphis Kee

94. 94.

    Change Is Hard

    Kirby Lyle

95. 95.

    Daylight Saves

    Calder Allen

96. 96.

    Shower For The Sin

    Caiden Wallace

97. 97.

    Her Kinda Love

    Meyers Leonard

98. 98.

    First Last Names

    Chris Moses

99. 99.

    Kamikaze

    Logan Ryan Band

100. 100.

     Dance On Thru

     Langhorne Slim

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