Best New Country Songs

It's been another busy week in the world of country and americana. Morgan Wallen dropped the epic video for 'I Get Better', Lainey Wilson was unveiled as the new host for the CMA Awards and Dan + Shay are officially back!

It's a busy week for new releases too. We've got big new songs from Megan Moroney, Ella Langley and Luke Combs in this weeks round up of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and Americana plus loads more.

Listen along to all the songs in the playlist on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and YouTube.

This week's Best New Country cover star is Carter Faith. She finally releases her full length debut album, Cherry Valley, today and it's already a contender for Album of the Year.

Following through on her bold artistic vision, Cherry Valley is a document of Carter’s time in Nashville, working chronologically through her breakout success and the breakups that went along with it. The 15-track opus includes the singles 'Sex, Drugs and Country Music,' 'Bar Star' and 'Grudge' along with a spread of soon to be fan favourites.

Named for an imagined place, a road sign Carter once saw that has come to signify her creative home, Cherry Valley is a place where her old school influences blend perfectly with her distinctly contemporary country sound.

We've got the brilliant 'Betty' kicking off our playlist in style today.

We're only just recovering from his appearance at the Grand Ole Opry at London's Royal Albert Hall last week and global superstar Luke Combs has us back in the palm of his hand with The Prequel, a new 3-song EP.

“Still working on my new album that’ll be out early next year, but three songs from it are ready now and I couldn’t wait to get y’all some new music, so I’m releasing them this Friday," shares Combs. "Songs will be ‘Days Like These,’ ‘15 Minutes’ and ‘My Kinda Saturday Night,’ which next year’s tour will be named after. I’ll have more news on that very soon.”

Megan Moroney and Ella Langley are both celebrating Toby Keith with covers of two of his big hits. Previously only available to Apple Music listeners, Megan treats us all to a race around 'Who's Your Daddy?' and Ella wraps her smoky rasp around 'Wish I Didn't Know Now.'

Elsewhere we've got new songs from Red Clay Strays, Tyler Nance, Paul Cauthen and Travis Bolt. Plus, it's only been a few days but off the back of the release of his highly anticipated new album COUNTRY! COUNTRY! last Friday, HARDY has unveiled its deluxe edition, COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY!. The deluxe LP offers brand-new song 'Good Ole Boy' as well as stripped-back, acoustic versions of tracks 'Dog Years,' 'Country In Me' and 'Take the Country and Run.'

Watch the video for 'Good Ole Boy' below

Anne Wilson is in a spiritual mood on 'Carry Me' and some things are better left 'Unspoken' for Kane Brown on his new single, while GabbyBarrett gives us another glimpse at her next era with'Ain’t Supposed to Be,' a gorgeously cinematic but true-to-life story of an unlikely romance between two restless souls.

We've got new songs from Owen Riegling, Jenna DeVries, Caroline Jones, Lance Roark, Chanel Yates, Ryan Charles, Braxton Keith, Kade Hoffman and lots lots more. Plus Waylon pops and Tony Joe White join forces on another track from the newly expanded version of White's 1980 album The Real Thang with the brilliant 'Mama’s Don’t Let Your Cowboys (Grow Up To Be Babies).'

Taylor Swift this, Taylor Swift that. Who cares!? We've got a completely new Waylon Jennings album to listen to! Three-time Grammy Award-winner Shooter Jennings treats us to Songbird, a completely new, previously unheard album by his legendary father, Waylon Jennings.

The first of three previously unheard albums worth of material by the groundbreaking country music superstar, Songbird collects recordings produced between 1973 and 1984 in various studios by Jennings and his longtime drummer and co-producer Richie Albright, featuring members of his indelible backing band, The Waylors, including Albright and renowned pedal steel guitarist Ralph Mooney, along with such special guests as Tony Joe White, Jessi Colter, and more.

We've got his version of Crystal Gayle's 'Wrong Road Again' in our playlist for you today and you can read our interview with Shooter Jennings in our feature on the new album. Be warned, it's a very emotional read.

Find out what our Holler writer's first impressions of big albums this week were with a roundup of albums from Waylon and Carter Faith as well as brilliant new records by Emily Ann Roberts, Colby Acuff and Brennen Leigh. Plus, we've got songs from new long players by Ink, Clever, Ole 60 and Annie Bosko. While Dierks Bentley gives his latest album the deluxe treatment in BROKEN BRANCHES EXTENDED.

Watch the video for Official Visualizer for Emily Ann Roberts' 'Pretty In Pink' below

Every week we shine our Holler spotlight on a song we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we've picked 'No Vacancy,' the brilliant new single from Japanese-Korean-American country-pop singer Tiger La For.

"Quarter Japanese, quarter Korean, half cowgirl," as she puts it, her new single is the kind of pop country boot kicker that'll have you learning a line dance to it before the evening's out.

"I recently moved to Redondo Beach and found myself fascinated by the touristy beach front dive bars there," she says about 'No Vacancy,' the follow up to her Drugstore Cowgirl EP from earlier in the year. "I wanted to make a song that captured the mood of those bars on a Friday night; carefree, flirtatious and charmingly chaotic."

"This song is set at a bar in Redondo Beach and tells the story of two people with fiery chemistry, " she adds. "One of whom is already taken. Hence the title."

"Sonically I wanted to balance modern country pop elements like banjo, fiddle and line dance stomping with '70s influences like ABBA style harmonies and Bee Gees inspired string arrangements."

Watch the lyric video for 'No Vacancy' below

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

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