Best New Country Songs

Alright team, It’s Friday, 12th December, Christmas is somehow less than two weeks away, and this is probably the last big Best New Country Friday update of 2025!

This week’s additions to the playlist feel like a gift you actually want: Maggie Antone and Gavin Adcock showing up with pure Aunt and Uncle holiday-season rowdiness, and Tyler Childers offering an absolute feral live rendition of our Song of the Year.

The Jack Wharff Band adds some soulful grit to cut through the candy cane sweetness, and Colin Stough rounds things out with that easy Southern charm. So, make that morning hot chocolate you really shouldn't be having, hit play, and ease into the last Best New Country Friday of the year.

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

This week's Best New Country cover star is one of the brightest ones around as Maggie Antone unveils her new song, 'The Devil’s Not in Hell,' her first new music since her critically acclaimed 2024 debut album, Rhinestoned.

“This is the perfect track for a feminine rage playlist about a stereotypical, bar crawling, manipulative, self-absorbed, sweet-talking man who is way too big for his britches.” Antone says. “He prioritizes the boys, has to have his way and thinks he’s god’s gift to women.”

The song couldn't be summed up better than by the answer machine message that's reached in the closing stages of the song, "Press 1 for more options / you little f***in' bitch".

Antone is set to return to the road early next year for a run of U.S. headline shows with her band The Rhinestones. Kicking off January 8 in Newport, KY, stops include Asheville’s Grey Eagle Tavern, Houston’s House of Blues, Austin’s Antone’s and more.

Listen to 'The Devil's Not In Hell' below:

Gavin Adcock and The Jack Wharff Band are this week's Landman Stars, making their audible appearance in the forthcoming episode of the second season of the hit Taylor Sheridan show.

The JWB's contribution is a soulful and suspenseful number that captures the weary, trodden yet devilish heart of the show's characters, while Adcock faces more bad luck and shitty hands than anyone should expect, but he's ready to wear it proudly on his chest.

There's an eye-opening new single from Colin Stough that will have listeners ears pricked up, a gorgeous track from Leah Blevin's new album on Easy Eye Sound that we cannot wait for and a brilliant collaboration between Texan Country Rock favourite Kody West and one of Holler's unsung heroes, Kat Hasty. They're taking a trip down 'Locust St.', and there's worst things you can do than join them.

Alongside them, we've got Brett Kissel & Lee Brice, Michael Marcagi, an excellent return from James MCann, Benny G and so many more.

Listen to Kody West & Kat Hasty's 'Locust St.' below:

Just a couple of releases this week - Lukas Nelson has dropped the deluxe edition of his wonderful album American Romance, Too, and it's 'A Certain Someone' we've particularly fallen in love with - a gorgeous wistful number you'll have on repeat.

Another spotlight pick for this week, Greazy Alice have dropped their debut EP Circles on Loose Music. Built on some warm, loving textures, 'Last Beer From The Fridge' is our pick from it, a no illusion, down on its luck number that is still going to savour those last drops of amber nectar from the last cold one available.

Each week we like to shine an extra bright light on a song that we think deserves a little extra attention and this week our Holler spotlight falls on Dustin Brown, Billy Hartman and Rachel Cole, with their one-off collaboration, 'Ballerina.'

Produced by Ben Hussey and released on New Usual Records, the song is a three-sides-to-the-story parable featuring the trio each portraying a character with very specific viewpoints of the same situation.

The voices blend perfectly into this lonesome tale about wandering hearts on a never-ending road. Brown and Hartman co-wrote the song, and they admit it has been nearly a year in the making with starts and stops and rearranging that seemed to keep evolving right up to the minute they walked into the studio. 

"Writing a song can be as complex as the characters in it," explains Dustin Brown about the song. "Some fall out on the table, but this one definitely reflects its process as much as its meaning. The turmoil behind the writing of this song influenced its jaded undertones. It's a tale as old as time. A love triangle between two souls and freedom. A dilemma, of one's resolve an another's yearning." Let's hope this isn't really a one-off.

Watch the video for 'Ballerina' below:

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

1. 1.

   The Devil's Not In Hell

   Maggie Antone

2. 2.

   Winner At Losing

   Gavin Adcock

3. 3.

   Bitin' List - Live From Dinosaur World

   Tyler Childers

4. 4.

   Best For You

   Colin Stough

5. 5.

   No Way Out

   The Jack Wharff Band

6. 6.

   A Certain Someone

   Lukas Nelson

7. 7.

   Be Careful Throwing Stones

   Leah Blevins

8. 8.

   Locust St.

   Kody West & Kat Hasty

9. 9.

   Farmer

   Brett Kissel & Lee Brice

10. 10.

    Unlocks Me

    Michael Marcagi

11. 11.

    Time Can Be Spent

    James McCann

12. 12.

    Masterpiece

    Benny G

13. 13.

    What Do I Do?

    Eddie and The Getaway

14. 14.

    Ballerina

    Dustin Brown, Billy Hartman, Rachel Cole

15. 15.

    Hold It Down (the after demo)

    Greylan James

16. 16.

    Break Me Down

    Jonathan Peyton & Abigail Peyton

17. 17.

    Excuse Me

    Kelsey Lamb

18. 18.

    Thought You Were Leaving

    Myles Morgan

19. 19.

    Boston

    Adam Doleac

20. 20.

    Drive Me To Drink

    Ben Burgess

21. 21.

    Complicated

    Gareth

22. 22.

    Secondhand Insane

    Taylor Demp

23. 23.

    Girl's Gone Cold

    Austin Mahone

24. 24.

    Take Me Home

    Kaylee Rose & Mackenzie Sol

25. 25.

    Somebody Like You - Live from the HIGH AND ALIVE WORLD TOUR

    Keith Urban

26. 26.

    Hate How You Look - Live From London

    Josh Ross

27. 27.

    Arrow

    Elijah Scott & Julia Lyons

28. 28.

    American Blue

    Alma Russ

29. 29.

    Deal with the Devil

    Clayton Mullen

30. 30.

    Edge of Darkness

    Jeremy Ivey

31. 31.

    On n'oublie pas

    Justine Beverley

32. 32.

    Start Over

    Ryan Price

33. 33.

    Girl with Her Guard Up

    Trannie Anderson

34. 34.

    Beer Don't Drink Itself

    Jay Webb

35. 35.

    Battle Cry

    Sam Burchfield

36. 36.

    A Rock Through The Stained Glass

    Clever

37. 37.

    Seventeen Last

    Matt Jordan

38. 38.

    Love You Like This

    Lathan Bryant

39. 39.

    Flash

    Payton Smith

40. 40.

    Made By The Mud

    Levi Bloom

41. 41.

    Life for Love

    Caitlynne Curtis & Struggle Jennings

42. 42.

    If I Had A Dime

    Tristan Trincado

43. 43.

    Silverado Sunset

    Justin Andrews

44. 44.

    ALONE

    David J

45. 45.

    Eraser

    Landon Parker

46. 46.

    SKIN

    Sam Paige

47. 47.

    Cowgirls Ride Away

    Alex Angelo

48. 48.

    Sister Golden Hair

    Morgan Myles

49. 49.

    Last Beer From The Fridge

    Greazy Alice

50. 50.

    Rich Girl

    Lucas John & The Delinquents

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