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It's been 18 years since Taylor Swift released her debut album and the timeline of country music would be irreversibly split in two. Like the Gregorian calendar, thereafter everything up until 2006 would be referred to as being Before Taylor (BT) and everything after as Anno Taylor (AT) because country music would never be the same again.

This week's cover star is very much an Anno Taylor country pop star. Kelsea Ballerini releases her brand new album, PATTERNS, today and we've got 'Baggage' kicking off our Best New Country playlist this morning.

This week Holler was lucky enough to give the world the first listen of 'Every Good Man,' the brilliant new single from Olivia Ellen Lloyd taken from her forthcoming album Do It Myself, due out in March 2025.

"Women are sold a dual truth; that we are complete people worthy of pursuing our own dreams and ambitions and also that we must be the center of the home and the helpmeet for any man in our lives," Olivia Ellen Lloyd explains about her latest single.

"As many of us try to have it both ways, we find ourselves in situations where our partners cannot meet us halfway, cannot see us as complete people (rather than their “missing piece”, that feisty bit of rib they think they’re missing). When we find ourselves in an unequal relationship (as we so often do) it becomes impossible to be both things at once. This realization can be painful but in the face of that pain, there is also an opportunity to embrace oneself fully and totally, even though it means losing a person you love. In sum – Dump him."

Brett Young has already found himself on the wrong end of a dumping on 'Kiss To Forget. He's been putting himself out there again after a break up and puckering up for every pretty face he sees but no one is measuring up to his ex-lover.

“‘Kiss To Forget’ is a song written to the one who got away. Telling her that anybody else he tries to be with, no matter how perfect, just won’t work,” shares Young. “He lost the only person for him and the best he can do moving forward is to hope to find some kind of distraction from the one he really wants.”

He needn't bother hitting on Priscilla Block though, she's already found the man of her dreams. To anybody else, he might be just a "small town, settle down, nothin' but a good old boy" but he is very much Priscilla's man. Move along, Brett. Don't even think about it.

Our favourite Southern belle Willow Avalon releases 'Country Never Leaves,' a wistful, nostalgia-drenched ode to a life she left behind as she settles into months of touring with no break on the horizon.

'Country Never Leaves' will be taken off her debut album, which is due January 17th. She wrote the song while down south on a brief trip home last winter, but its chorus has become more and more resonant as touring pulls her around North America, and soon, the world."

"I left the 200-population farm town in Georgia where I grew up to pursue a music career but I miss it soo much," Willow Avalon told Holler. "And I can’t wait to get back there soon. You can take a girl outta the country, but not the country outta the girl."

She'll be away from home a whole lot more before the year's out supporting Paul Cauthen and Charles Wesley Godwin on their upcoming tours.

With that in mind, Big Velvet is back! Paul Cauthen has released his new album, Black on Black, as he continues his landmark 2024, who brought out Lana Del Rey to duet on 'Unchained Melody' at his Stagecoach set and features on Shaboozey’s 'Last of my Kind' Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going.

Black on Black was written over the last several years during Paul’s travels across America on his motorcycle and in the tour bus and largely recorded at Rosewood Studios in Cauthen’s hometown of Tyler, TX with longtime collaborator Jason Burt.

Ryan Hurd is in less of a fun loving mood on his new single 'This Party Sucks.' Although, unless we're very much mistaken, that's Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge in the video, and if you're not having a good time at our favourite Nashville bar then you need to take a good long hard look at the attitude you're showing up to the party with.

Watch the video for 'This Party Sucks' below.

Elsewhere we've got a new one from Brett Young, Zach John King releases his new single, 'Hole in the Wall' and Kaylee Green puts out the powerful 'Catching Up.'

“‘Catching Up is about the experience of being unhappy in a relationship but the person you’re with doesn’t realize that until it’s too late," she says about the songs. "I’ve always wanted to write songs that people can relate to, and I think a lot of people have probably gone through something like this."

Angie K is bringing her penchant for authentic storytelling, powerful vocals, and unwavering pride in her Latin heritage to new single, 'Golden.'

GRAMMY® Award winners and Country Music Hall of Fame inductees The Oak Ridge Boys give us a whole album of songs filled with heartfelt tributes to their own mothers and mothers everywhere.

Having sold over 41 millions units worldwide with Top 10 hits, including No. 1 chart-toppers 'Elvira,' 'Bobbie Sue,' 'Thank God For Kids,' 'American Made,' and 'Y’All Come Back Saloon,' The Oak Ridge Boys release their new album, Mama's Boys. The first album they made their country breakthrough in 1976 without Joe Bonsall and their fifth collaboration with Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb, recorded at the iconic RCA Studio A and Blackbird Studios in Nashville.

“The idea for the mamas album came from our producer, David Cobb,” says Duane Allen. “He said, 'Man! You guys are perfect examples of mama's boys. I think there's a need for a complete album on all the things your mama taught you about love and life and how to get along - all the important things.' That's kind of how it started.”

Sometimes a song is just crying out for a country version and Beck's 'Lost Cause' from his 2002 album Seachange is one of those songs. Finally, Willie Nelson does the honours and it's just as perfect as we could have hoped.

Rett Madison unveils One More For Jackie as an expanded Digital Deluxe edition version of her 2023 album One For Jackie in celebration of the LP’s one-year anniversary featuring a new song entitled 'Head On,' which she originally recorded during the album sessions.Hannah McFarland shares her new single 'Hey Highway' — a poignant heartbreak ballad and her debut release for The Core Records/Capitol Records.

“‘Hey Highway’ is one of my favorite songs that I’ve written, and it feels so special to have it released as my first single after signing my record deal,” says McFarland. “I couldn’t be more excited to take the next step in my career alongside The Core Records and Capitol Records, with this song as part of the foundation.”

Co-written by McFarland and Kaylin Roberson, 'Hey Highway' offers up a deeply relatable portrait of post-breakup yearning, set entirely over the course of a tearful drive home.

All in all, it's another big week in the world of country and americana with big releases from Jordan Davis, Julia Di Grazia, Jason Scott & The High Heat, Ian Munsick, Michael Marcagi, Jamey Johnson, Gigi Perez, Austin Snell, Tyler Halverson and lots more.

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

1. 1.

   Baggage

   Kelsea Ballerini

2. 2.

   Country Never Leaves

   Willow Avalon

3. 3.

   Know You Like That

   Jordan Davis

4. 4.

   Leave You Behind

   Julia DiGrazia

5. 5.

   High Country

   Jason Scott & The High Heat

6. 6.

   Every Good Man

   Olivia Ellen Lloyd

7. 7.

   Fixin' Me

   Ian Munsick

8. 8.

   Golden

   Angie K

9. 9.

   Mama's Boys

   The Oak Ridge Boys

10. 10.

    Hey Highway

    Hannah McFarland

11. 11.

    Kiss To Forget

    Brett Young

12. 12.

    Good Enough

    Michael Marcagi

13. 13.

    He's My Man

    Priscilla Block

14. 14.

    Come Over Thinking

    Austin Snell

15. 15.

    Hole in the Wall

    Zach John King

16. 16.

    Lavender Jones

    Paul Cauthen

17. 17.

    Head On

    Rett Madison

18. 18.

    Clown In A Barrel

    Tyler Halverson

19. 19.

    Cry

    Lanie Gardner

20. 20.

    Fable

    Gigi Perez

21. 21.

    Catching Up

    Kayley Green

22. 22.

    Lost Cause

    Willie Nelson

23. 23.

    This Party Sucks

    Ryan Hurd

24. 24.

    Saturday Night in New Orleans

    Jamey Johnson

25. 25.

    The Wild

    Olivia Wolf

26. 26.

    Blueprint

    Eli Winders

27. 27.

    Happy Trails

    Orville Peck

28. 28.

    MONEY CAN'T BUY

    Niko Moon

29. 29.

    Other Guys

    David Morris

30. 30.

    '90s Country

    Hannah Ellis

31. 31.

    Never Not Care

    Steven Lee Olsen and Mickey Guyton

32. 32.

    Heaven in a Holler

    Brian Kelley

33. 33.

    Trainwreck

    Clever

34. 34.

    by june

    Erin Gibney

35. 35.

    Isn't That Life

    Fancy Hagood and Michelle Branch

36. 36.

    The Girls In My Hometown

    Jesse James Decker

37. 37.

    Scared to Death of Dallas

    Trey Lewis

38. 38.

    Rather Be Us (feat. Maddie & Tae)

    Jake Scott

39. 39.

    Hate You First

    Abby Anderson

40. 40.

    People Still Doing That

    Joe Nichols

41. 41.

    Tough People

    Drew Baldridge

42. 42.

    Up, Out, and Leaving

    Hayden Blount

43. 43.

    Nothing But the Burn

    Jay Webb

44. 44.

    Lose Her Forever

    Jon Langston

45. 45.

    Going Home

    Tyler Joe Miller

46. 46.

    IT'S ON ME

    Ashley Wells and Struggle Jennings

47. 47.

    Two Sides

    Sam Grow

48. 48.

    All Boots

    CeCe

49. 49.

    Forget About It

    Seaforth

50. 50.

    Cowboy Gunning

    Jimmy Clifton

51. 51.

    William's Spring

    Bailey Bigger

52. 52.

    Maybe That's the Way to Your Heart

    William Harries Green

53. 53.

    Think of You

    Dipper

54. 54.

    Quit

    Nate Good

55. 55.

    Borderline Crazy

    William Beckmann

56. 56.

    Dumb Enough To Try

    Aidan Canfield

57. 57.

    Pulling Weeds

    Kasey Tyndall

58. 58.

    Whiskey Talkin'

    Ryan Waters Band

59. 59.

    Country's Close Enough

    Mason Horne

60. 60.

    If You Can't, Don't

    Neil Perry

61. 61.

    Po Dunk Party

    Coffey Anderson

62. 62.

    DARE YA

    Ty March.

63. 63.

    Black Widow

    Caitlynne Curtis

64. 64.

    Country Enough

    Austin Burke

65. 65.

    Good Man

    Brittanny Kennell

66. 66.

    Spin Again

    Bronté Fall

67. 67.

    God Only Knows

    Hannah White

68. 68.

    Carnival

    Juliet Lloyd

69. 69.

    Armadillo

    Smoke Dad

70. 70.

    I Wonder

    Danny Kensey

71. 71.

    S P A C E

    Amythyst Kiah

72. 72.

    I Think We Know

    Roger Street Friedman

73. 73.

    Lonely Tonight

    Cody Cozz

74. 74.

    Looking... For a Little Love

    Sheyna Gee

75. 75.

    Make It Out

    Jesse Lynn Madera

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