Brit Taylor Announces New Album Inspired by Appalachian Life for March and Shares 'Warning You Whiskey'

A top 20 alumni of our Holler Albums of the Year in 2023 with the Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson produced Kentucky Blue, Brit Taylor announces its follow up, Land of the Forgotten, for 6 March 2026.

Taking its inspiration from the Appalachian way of life, the forthcoming album includes previous single 'All For Sale' and today's preview, 'Warning You Whiskey,' a driving classic country anthem that tips its hat to the women of '90s and noughties country as Taylor tells the tale of a character who blames the whiskey instead of her alcoholic husband.

"I was thinking of stories I’d heard of strong-willed Appalachian women in my life," Taylor says. "They loved their men fearlessly even when all they really deserved was a good ass-whoopin. I love that the women in this song is never mad at her man. But she’s mader’n hell at the bottle of whiskey in his hand. She’s willing to fight her man’s demons for him at all cost. I’m not sure if it’s healthy and a therapist probably wouldn’t recommend it but that’s what these Appalachian women did. It’s what my mamaw did. When we were recording this I wanted it to sound like late 80s or early 90s country but very Appalachian."

Always inspired by her idol Patty Loveless and her producer husband Emory Gordy and tapping into Lee Ann Womack and her producer-husband Frank Liddel, Taylor turned to her singer songwriter/producer husband Adam Chafins “to be my Emory and Frank,” puling inspiration from the two powerhouses to create a record that is uniquely her own.

“One of the benefits of having my husband produce this record is that he knows my voice. He hears me sing on tour, on stage, in the car, the studio, the shower, the kitchen, in writing rooms,” Taylor says. “All he encouraged me to do is what I do when no one’s telling me what to do. This record is definitely the most honest vocal approach I’ve taken on any of my records.”

18 years into a 10-year town, she has already released two albums on her own label Cut A Shine Records via Thirty Tigers as well as the reimagined Kentucky Bluegrassed. With her third studio album Taylor says she’s finally achieved the sound she’s been going for since she first arrived in Music City. Taylor has been singing professionally since she was seven years old, when she became a cast member for the Kentucky Opry as one of their “junior pros”. Around the same time she started taking singing lessons and listening to the country classics her grandparents constantly played.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a country singer with a stronger pedigree than Brit Taylor. Born and raised in Eastern Kentucky right in the middle of a small region that has given us the likes of Loretta Lynn, Keith Whitley, The Judds, and Tyler Childers, Taylor is Appalachian to her bones, and she possesses a deep understanding of the place and its people that well serves her new album, Land of the Forgotten.

“This album feels like driving home to me,” Taylor says. Although she has lived in Nashville for 18 years she says she’s always homesick. One thing she often studies on is the “certain type of resilience” she finds in Appalachian people. “If I didn’t have that in me, I wouldn’t still be chasing this dream. The people and the places are always making their way into my writing.”

The result is a collection of tightly written, hook-driven songs that often center on the working class, which makes it a particularly timely album.

“I think it puts a lighthearted spin on some of the tougher things about life. Not to make light of difficult times but to remind us two things can exist at one time and not to forget to take a look at the bright side too and to not take it all so seriously,” Taylor says. “There’s a lot of awful things happening in the world that we need to be aware of and need to do what we can to change it. But dwelling on it and ignoring all the good things around us in the process doesn’t help anyone.”

Watch the video for 'Warning You Whiskey' below

Land of the Forgotten is due out in March on Cut A Shine Records via Thirty Tigers. Preorder or presave here

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