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It's a little bit quiet around these parts today. Apparently, everyone in America is having barbecues and picnics, taking the weekend off and getting ready for the fireworks tonight, but it's just another Friday here in London. Time for another of our weekly round ups of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and Americana.
Listen along to this week's Holler Best New Country playlist on Spotify, Amazon, Apple and YouTube.
Best New Country Cover Star
This week's Best New Country cover star is Russell Dickerson, who gives us another taste of his forthcoming album, Famous Back Home, with 'Sippin’ on Top of the World,' as he celebrates the clock turning five o'clock on a Friday. Seems like he's as excited as us about waking up early for Best New Country!
'Sippin’ on Top of the World' is an ode to slowing things down and soaking up the good life so what better way to kick off this week's 4th of July Best New Country, as the 'She Likes It' singer celebrates life’s simple joys and the gratitude that comes with them, trading the stresses of work for the freedom of the open country road back home, with a six-pack from the Texaco and a girl riding shotgun beside him.
It's a song about small-town contentment, good company, cold beer and a sunset, and feeling like the luckiest guy in the world.
New Country and Americana Singles
Elsewhere in this week's Best New Country, Ryan Bingham is celebrating straightforward thinking and the simple way of life on his new single, 'Americana,' or is it the straightforward life and a simple way of thinking? Either way, the single comes out today and it's going to sound perfect blasting out of your Bose speaker sitting around a bonfire later.
Meanwhile, Zach Bryan has been popping up everywhere in the UK this week. First of all, he surprised his fans last Friday when he and J.R. Carroll joined Turnpike Troubadours on stage at their intimate Islington Assembly Hall show before Zach headlined two sold out shows in London's Hyde Park on Saturday and Sunday. Not one to take the night off, he popped up again at The Lexington in London where he joined Noeline Hofmann for 'Purple Gas.'
To cap off a whirlwind trip he released three new songs on Wednesday, including his love song to the city, 'Streets of London,' which Bryan debuted during Night 1 at BST Hyde Park 2025. Zach Bryan wrote the song while in the city rehearsing before his Dublin shows, and although he introduced the song at BST Hyde Park as a tribute to London, he spends a lot of the song wishing he was back home.
Originally teased with a 30 June release date, Zach announced the new song had been postponed by announcing two more
"Yoooo decided to put two songs out instead of just one so it's gonna take an extra day!!" he wrote on his socials. "Songs'll be out Tuesday sorry sorry sorry”.
The song eventually appeared on 2 July along with 'River Washed Hair' and 'A Song For You' and we've got all three of them in our Best New Country playlist today.
This week it's the turn of Tanner Adell, who joins Sabrina Carpenter on Sunday for the second date of her BST shows in Hyde Park, and the 'Whiskey Blues' singer celebrates today by releasing 'Giddy Up Gorgeous.'
Tyler Childers made us all look like absolute plums on Wednesday when he revealed the tracklisting for his new album, Snipe Hunter, and it didn't include hardly any of previously unreleased songs that we predicted it would. Not even 'Jersey Giant.' It did include fan favourite 'Oneida' though, and he got in there early ahead of 4th of July and released it as an early treat before the album comes out at the end of the month.
Watch the live performance video below
We think we know what Bayker Blankenship will be getting up to this weekend if his new single, 'My Truck, Some Weed, and a Guitar,' is anything to go by, while Colby Acuff is celebrating the 'Average American' and Charley Crockett gives us the first taste of the second part of his Sagebrush Trilogy and another must add for all your Easter playlists with 'Crucified Son.'
If you're a fan of timeless old school country then we've got a brilliant new song from Bobby Murray in our playlist for you today. Born and raised in Portland, ME, Bobby decided to relocate to Texas in 2024 after graduating college. Working as a ranch-hand in Dripping Springs, Bobby started writing music and he was quickly wrapped up in a TikTok drama involving some of Austin’s biggest TikTok influencers. In the midst of all the drama, Bobby and influencer Ken Eurich sparked romance and Ken’s unhinged personality in turn inspired Bobby’s viral acoustic version of 'A Lil Crazy,' co-written with Jonathan Terrell, which now gets a full studio version.
Multi-Platinum superstar, Lee Brice, has enlisted some of his fellow blue-collar Country brothers – Randy Houser, Jamey Johnson, Jerrod Niemann, Dallas Davidson and Rob Hatch (aka The Traler Park) for his latest release, 'Said No Country Boy Ever.' Written by Brice with Brian Davis, Brock Berryhill and Cole Taylor, this barroom singalong raises a glass to Mama’s fried chicken, hard work and hunting season just in time for the 4th of July weekend.
“I know y’all love all my boys that are on this song with me," says the singer. "I’m just thankful that after all the years of us making music, tearing up pavement, and making memories together, that y’all can all finally experience a little piece of the Traler Park!”
Watch the video for 'Said No Country Boy Ever' below.
Elsewhere we've got new ones from Georgia Webster, Cam, Nicki Bluhm, Austin Snell, Hillary Reynolds and Tyler Rich. While Dustin Lynch pulls us out into the dancefloor with his MOONLGHT remix of 'Easy To Love'and Dorothy releases a hi-NRG 'Outlaw Remix' of 'Tombstone Town' featuring Lanie Gardner and Slash.
'Me More Cowboy Than You' singers The Brudi Brothers release 'Motherland,' Reyna Roberts is picking 'Mustangs Over Bentleys' and Ian Noe releases a beautifully stark reimagining of Bruce Springsteen's 'Born in the USA.'
All that, plus Holler favourites The Pink Stones are back with 'If I Can't Win (With You)' as they announce their new album, Thank the Lord...It's the Pink Stones, for September.
Watch the video for 'If I Can't Win (With You)' below
New Country and Americana Albums
It's a quiet week for new albums this week, but you can always rely on Jesse Welles. He continues to live up to his title as the prolific poet of the woods with the release of his third album of the year, as he continues his singular, unbridled creativity and follows Middle, his third studio album, and Under the Powerlines (April 24 – September 24), a 63-song collection of recent field and live recordings, both of which were released earlier this year.
The new album, Pilgrim, features star turns from Sierra Ferrell on 'Far From Home,' which is in our playlist today, and Billy Strings.
“We made Pilgrim in three days at the end of our 27-date run this spring," explains Welles. "Eddie Spear and I would talk between shows about what kinda record we wanted to make next, sending songs back and forth etc. By the time we got in the studio, there was no discussion. Just execute.”
Every week we turn our Holler spotlight on to a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we've picked an absolute banger to help you ease into the long weekend.
Rising country artist Conor Clemmons releases his new single 'Double Standard,' a rowdy, boot stomping, floorboard rattling feel-good anthem that you'll want to crank at the barbecue this afternoon.
Written by Alysa Vanderheym, Griffen Palmer and Devin Dawson — one of Conor’s longtime musical heroes - 'Double Standard' is a full-circle moment for him.
“I’ve looked up to Devin’s writing and artistry for years," he shares. "Getting to cut a song he helped write is honestly still blowing my mind.”
Watch the visualizer for 'Double Standards' below
Check out this week's new country and americana song releases and listen to the full playlist below:
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Sippin' On Top Of The World
Russell Dickerson
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Americana (feat. The Texas Gentlemen)
Ryan Bingham
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Streets of London
Zach Bryan
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Oneida
Tyler Childers
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Giddy Up Gorgeous
Tanner Adell
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Far From Home (feat. Sierra Ferrell)
Jesse Welles
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My Truck, Some Weed, and a Guitar
Bayker Blankenship
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Crucified Son
Charley Crockett
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RUNNER
Georgia Webster
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Average American
Colby Acuff
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A Lil Crazy
Bobby Murray
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If I Can't Win (With You)
The Pink Stones
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Born in the USA
Ian Noe
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Two Tone Trippin'
Chase Rice and Wyatt McCubbin
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Said No Country Boy Ever (feat. The Traler Park)
Lee Brice
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Fourth of July
Cooper Alan
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Motherland
The Brudi Brothers
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Mustangs Over Bentleys
Reyna Roberts
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Everblue
Cam
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Double Standards
Conor Clemmons
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Drunk
Austin Snell
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River Washed Hair
Zach Bryan
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Summer of Us
Tyler Rich
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July 4
Nate Good
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TALK ABOUT IT (feat. Katie Pruitt)
MORGXN
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Cumberland Banks
Nicki Bluhm
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American Heartbeat
Carolyn Miller
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Easy To Love - MOONLGHT Remix
Dustin Lynch
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Penthouse (Brandi Cyrus Remix)
Kelse Ballerini
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TOMBSTONE TOWN - Outlaw Country Remix (feat. Lanie Gardner and Slash)
Dorothy
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Beyond Belief
Tucker Zimmerman
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Don't Let Me Down (Live at CJLO 1690AM)
Steel Saddle
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Camo Can
Dawson Gray
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Gaslight
Hillary Reynolds
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A Lot More Lows Than Highs
Joe Jordan
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GOOD FOR ME
James Johnston
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Don't Bet It All On Me
Cypress Spring
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Last of a Dying Breed
Wade Forster
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Tequila Gold
Tim Hicks
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High Time
Maja Francis
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Good To Drive
Jessica Sevier
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DIAMONDBACK
Ty March.
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A Song For You
Zach Bryan
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In the Neon
Sara Berki
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Shouldn't Drink No More
Ryan Langdon
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My Home
The Wet Whistles
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Feels So Good!
Alyssa Bonagura
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