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We're edging ever closer to Christmas. Soon it'll be nothing but jingling bells and two stepping around the Christmas tree around here. Time for one last secular hurrah before we succumb to the joys of the Holiday season with a roundup of all the biggest and best, decidedly unseasonal, new releases from the world of country and americana with Luke Combs, Tucker Wetmore, Laci Kaye Booth and some of this year's other big hitters.
Listen along to our Best New Country playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon.
Best New Country Cover Star
This week's Best new Country cover star is Elizabeth Nichols. One of our 2025 Holler faves releases her new single, 'Oh The Things Men Do,' tonight and proves that good things really are worth waiting for. Maybe we were a little early on picking our Holler Best Songs of 2025, considering Kelsea Ballerini, Emily Ann Roberts and now Elizabeth Nichols have released some of the best songs of the year since we picked ours.
This time the 'I Got A New One' singer is calling out wannabe Cassanovas and how transparent the empty ploys and superficial acts boys are using to get laid these days in a deceptively perky feminist anthem for our modern times.
"He'll shave his face, he'll take a shower," she sings, adding an eye-rolling "wow" before she lists off all the not-so-subtle performative actions men take in their relentless quest to get to fourth base. "He'll wear a nice shirt and buy some flowers (for me?) / He'll make a bed he never makes / He'll spray cologne he never sprays (tsh tsh) / I talk talk talk, he pretends to listen 'tell me more' / Say my Dad's a pastor. Suddenly, he's Christian (amen) / Swears up and down he's a feminist / And that's just my top 10 list."
Marking the exact one-year anniversary of 'I Got A New One,' which kickstarted her entire career, her new single shows just how much she's accomplished in such a short amount of time; she was literally in the middle of law school finals at this time last year with no plans to do music full time when she released her first single.
“We had a lot of laughs in the writers' room swapping stories about some of the tactics we've seen men employ to try and charm women," says Nichols about the song. "We set out to turn that conversation into a song that reflected how baffling and amusing we found their see-through and predictable manoeuvres. However, the more I thought about it, there are a lot of young girls out there that probably don't have the same perspective, and I hope this song teaches them not to be fooled by charm that is all show and no substance and not to fall for empty gestures dressed up as romance."
Watch the video for 'Oh The Things Men Do' below.
New Country and Americana Singles
Elsewhere we've got new songs from Lily Meola, Tyler Halverson and Matt Stell. While Tucker Wetmore has a hot potato of a single out this week with his first new music since his album came out in April. Built on a slinky little country funk groove, 'Proving Me Right' finds Wetmore calling out an ex for repeating the same old patterns with her new boo. Whoever that might be wink wink.
Luke Combs is 'Giving Her Away' on his emotional new single and Clover County is packing up her 'Suitcase,' while Sophie Gault is wondering 'Is There Anyone Out There' and Colton Bowlin releases another stunning new single.
“‘Don’t Come Home’ is a dark tale about betrayal, revenge, and consequence," says Bowlin about the song. "I often heard tall tales around the feed mill, and this song was imagined in one of those moments.”
There are some fun collabs in this week's playlist too as a few unlikely bedfellows scooch up together. Aerosmith and YUNGBLUD bring in Lainey Wilson for 'Wild Woman,' while Dasha joins Ricky Manning on 'Someone Else & Jesus' and Ashley Anne and Grace Tyler give Sabrina Carpenter's 'Please Please Please' a country makeover. Plus, Corey Kent and Koe Wetzel are experiencing a 'Rocky Mountain Low' together.
Co-written by Kent alongside Austin Goodloe, Michael Tyler and Thomas Archer, the song finds Kent and Wetzel careening down a heartbreak spiral, falling from the high of a woman’s love. And before landing in a canyon of despair, they hit every emotional boulder on the way.
"'Rocky Mountain Low’ is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever recorded,” Kent reflects. “It has all the rock and roll elements I grew up on and all the country influences I love. I asked my buddy Koe to jump on the second verse, and he was the person I pictured when writing that part, so having him on the track just makes it feel even more authentic.”
“Corey and I have talked about working together for a while now, and this song finally gave us the chance,” adds Wetzel. “I heard it once and knew it was the one. I’m really proud of how it came together.”
We've got all that as well as new songs from Josh Meloy, Laci Kaye Booth, Colin Vincent, Tenille Arts and a pair of indie-tinged George Jones covers from Merce Lemon and Fust.
Courtney Marie Andrews teases the last single off her forthcoming Valentine album before it comes out in January with a properly magical folk-pop gem of a song, 'Little Picture of a Butterfly.'
“After being stood up, this song fell out of me in a fit of heartbreak,” says Andrews. “Musically, I wanted the beginning of the song to sound like the whimsical, dreamy, and helplessly meek feeling of limerence, and feeling like you need a response in order to be kicked into action. Once it’s stated that limerence can create illusions of fantasy or ‘make believe,’ we’re kicked into action, kicked into waking up, kicked into our power. The band kicks in, and I’m empowered.”
Watch the video for 'Little Picture of a Butterfly' below.
New Country and Americana Albums and EPs
We've got songs off new albums this week by Zac Brown Band, Ryan Charles and Bottomland, while Margo Price and Wynn Williams give their recent albums the deluxe treatment.
We've got songs from new EPs by Rocco Gorelik, Roan Ash, Wes Bayliss and Michael Armstrong and Callie Twisselman adds the brilliant 'Tilted Halo' to her string of recently released singles for her Growing in Grace EP.
Spotlight Single of the Week
Every week we shine our Holler spotlight on a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we're turning it ontoBenjamin Tod whose calling out exploitation within the country music world on his new Shooter Jennings produced single, 'Hell I Have.'
"'Hell I Have' is a song for the underdogs," explains Tod about the song. "People that have more scars than trophies or awards. Folks who have the determination and perseverance that only comes from crawling out of hell. We all have the pretenders and the privileged to compete with but it’s important to remember that it’s the experience of hardship that built the character inside of us. It’s the breaking of our own hearts that allows us to empathize with a stranger's struggle. I am thankful for the windy broken road I was given."
"It’s also for all the real artists, songwriters and traditional country players who have to deal with the exploitation and erasure brought on by the ‘country’ music gold rush of the moment. We will remain, and I thank you all for your dedication in these trying times."
Check out this week's new country and americana song releases and listen to the full playlist below:
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Oh The Things Men Do
Elizabeth Nichols
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Giving Her Away
Luke Combs
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Proving Me Right
Tucker Wetmore
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Hell I Have
Benjamin Tod
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Too Many, Too Few
Margo Price
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Don't Come Home
Colton Bowlin
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Passenger
Zac Brown Band
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Without a Fight
Josh Meloy
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Don't Ruin Flowers
Tenille Arts
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Rocky Mountain Low (feat. Koe Wetzel)
Corey Kent
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I'm In Love with a Man
Laci Kaye Booth
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Someone Else & Jesus (feat. Dasha)
Ricky Manning
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Suitcase
Clover County
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Choices
Fust
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Bolo Blues
Lily Meola
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Fort Worth Losing
Tyler Halverson
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Thing About Me
Jon Langston
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Stay Twangin'
Ryan Charles and Ian Munsick
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Please Please Please
Ashley Anne and Grace Tyler
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Hello Heartbreak
Rocco Gorelik
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Wild Woman
Aerosmith, YUNGBLUD and Lainey Wilson
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Here for the Beer
Randall King and Wynn Williams
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Sugarcoat
Matt Stell
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The Greatest Gift of All
Bryce Leatherwood
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Looking Down Proud
Pecos & the Rooftops
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Whiskey and Water
Rose Falcon
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Is There Anyone Out There
Sophie Gault
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Cup of Loneliness
Merce Lemon
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Lucky Strike!
Tiger La Flor
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Get There
Roc Helton
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Everytime We Talk It's a Bar Fight
Colin Vincent
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Boys Don't Cry
Clever
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As If
Cole Gibbs
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So Do I (feat. Demi Lee Moore)
Roan Ash
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Hope You Know
Bottomland
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Going Back Home
Teddy Robb
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No One Like A Quitter
Grace Gunn
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My Love
Levi Turner
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You're The One
Brandt Carmichael
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Money Down
Davis Cook
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Dig In
Wes Bayliss
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Tilted Halo
Callie Twisselman
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Cold Heart On Fire
Josiah Siska
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After Loving You
Jackie Lee
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God's Up To Something
Carson Beyer
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Sky High
The Ransom Brothers
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Delusional (feat. Ashley Monroe)
Aubrie Sellers
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brat summer
vegas water taxi
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Morning Light
Jake & Shelby
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Same Sea
Elli Rowe
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Faith to Arise
Brandon Lane Moore
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Top Shelf Woman
Kyle Gates
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The Quilt
SJ McDonald
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Left Or Right
Ethan Miller
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Stand and Deliver
Sons of Legion
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Chain Smokin'
Ryan Nelson
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Who I Am
Aaron McBee
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Won't You
Michael Armstrong
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Side by Side
Pert Near Sandstone
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Made For Me, Made For You
Owen Morton
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