NEW COUNTRY MUSIC

Ethan Garner doesn’t spend The Georgia Kid chasing country music’s latest trend. Across seven sharply drawn stories, the rising singer-songwriter plants his boots in Southern soil and builds something unmistakably his own. Courtesy Of Ethan Garner A Piece of Home “The Georgia Kid as a collection of songs is symbolic of where I am at now but also where I have been. These are the first songs I’ve ever released, and they are a little piece of my home in Georgia, and represent ho

Jackson Dean + Laci Kaye Booth - The Moon And The Wolf The beauty of “The Moon And The Wolf” is that it refuses to promise daylight. This is not a sweeping love story or a declaration of forever. It is about the kind of connection that may evaporate by morning but feels endless while it is happening. Wild, wounded and suspended in time, “The Moon And The Wolf” turns a lonely night into something nearly sacred, and proves Dean and Booth can create serious magic in the dark. Re

Charlie Reece digs deep into the shadows on “Built On Her,” a brooding country-rock story song that carries the rough-edged intensity and emotional bite of early Brantley Gilbert. Dark, heavy and deliberately unresolved, the track finds Reece leaning into the kind of storytelling that leaves bruises. Rather than revealing every answer, he lets the tension build around the edges, creating a song that feels as much like a warning as it does a confession. Its gritty country foun

In an exclusive conversation with All Country News, Gardner opens up about the album’s final chapter, working with Kristian Bush and the fan-chosen anthem fueling her next era. Courtesy of BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville For Lanie Gardner, Faded Polaroids was never quite finished. The original album captured the heartbreak, growing pains and hard-earned lessons of her early twenties—but Gardner knew one final piece of the story still needed to be told. As she prepares to step i

Jackson Dean has always sounded most at home where the pavement ends and the shadows take over. On “The Moon And The Wolf,” he travels even deeper into the darkness, and brings Laci Kaye Booth along for the ride. Photo Credit: Gus Black The first release from Dean’s upcoming expanded album, Magnolia Sage (In Full Bloom), arriving October 9, is a hypnotic slow burn about two fiercely independent souls allowing themselves one fleeting moment of vulnerability. Haunted, narcotic

With classic-country conviction, razor-sharp personality and a family legacy she’s determined to make her own, Carlisle Wright delivers one of the genre’s most exciting introductions. Courtesy Of Carlisle Wright Meet Carlisle Wright Carlisle Wright isn’t easing quietly into country music. She’s kicking open the honky-tonk doors, introducing herself with a confident “Well, howdy” and making it crystal clear what kind of artist she intends to be. Her new song, “Wright Kind of C

The country star turns hard-earned clarity into 16 more reasons to love her. Credit: Dove Shore Carly Pearce has never hidden the seasons of her life from us. She has let listeners sit beside her through the heartbreak, the healing, the anger and the uncomfortable stretch of learning how to begin again. But on Honest Woman, Pearce does not sound like someone still trying to make sense of what happened to her. She sounds like a woman who already has, and who no longer needs an

There is something almost confrontational about naming a debut album I’m What You Get. No hedging. No carefully polished introduction. No attempt to make everyone happy. For Georgia native Zach John King, that is exactly the point. Ahead of the release of his sprawling 20-song debut, King sat down with All Country News for an exclusive interview to unpack the stories, collaborators and deeply personal songwriting behind a project he sees as more than an introduction. It is, i

Ryan & Rory have never needed much help turning up the energy, but on their latest release, “Beer Wants Me,” the rising duo lets the good times take complete control. Driven by roaring guitars, fiery harmonica and a hook made to be shouted with a drink in the air, the track captures that wonderfully dangerous moment when “just one” becomes an entire night. Clocking in at a lean two minutes and 52 seconds, “Beer Wants Me” wastes no time getting to the party, and according to t

Maybe home isn’t one place, but all the places that shape who we become. That is the powerful message at the heart of Caryn Dixon’s new single, “Where I’ve Been,” an upbeat, windows-down country anthem for anyone who has ever struggled to answer the deceptively simple question: Where are you from? For Dixon, there is no single dot on the map. There is Carolina in her blood, four formative years beneath the Southern sun, memories hanging on the walls of her grandmother’s Penns

There is a new generation of singer-songwriters refusing to let genre define the boundaries of their stories. Sam Drysdale belongs firmly among them. Blurring the lines between country, folk and alternative music, he pairs deeply personal songwriting with the raw emotional weight that has helped artists like Noah Kahan and Zach Bryan connect far beyond any single format. On his powerful new release, “The Cage,” out now, Drysdale turns his attention inward, offering a painfull

You may find yourself wondering who Trey Pendley is. By the time his debut album Signs of Life finishes, the better question is: where has this guy been hiding? Out now via Leo33, Signs of Life doesn’t sound like the work of an artist still trying to figure out who he is. It sounds lived-in. Certain. Grounded. Pendley, a Toad Suck, Arkansas native, steps forward with the kind of debut that feels less like an introduction and more like finally being let in on a secret. And in

Carly Pearce - Honest Woman There may not be a title track on Honest Woman, but there does not need to be. Every song earns that name. Each one carries Pearce’s truth so openly that, before long, it begins to sound a little like our own. That has always been Carly Pearce’s greatest gift. She can take the most personal chapters of her life and sing them without sanding down the details, yet somehow leave enough room for all of us inside them. On Honest Woman, she does more tha

Who is this new young gun with country swagger, a sharp ear for a great song and a voice that sounds like it wandered straight out of a 2002 CMT music video? Meet Colby Lee Swift. Courtesy Of Colby Lee Swift On his new single, “Wish It Was You,” the Texas native does not chase country music’s latest trend. Instead, he reaches backward—toward the kind of traditional country song that understands heartbreak does not always arrive screaming. Sometimes it waits quietly in the lif

Sometimes country music does not need to overcomplicate the assignment. Sometimes you just need a great hook, a little Southern swagger and a truck tall enough to make everything else look small. Timothy Wayne delivers exactly that on “Jacked Up Truck,” a rollicking 3:45 blast of personality that feels tailor-made for back roads, rolled-down windows and summer nights that stretch a little longer than planned. Courtesy Of Timothy Wayne Co-written by Wayne alongside hitmaker Be

Music City may occasionally forget it, but the women of country music have always had some of its best stories to tell. On Music City Mutt, Jenny Tolman makes a convincing case that hers deserve to be heard a little louder. Across 15 wonderfully varied tracks, Tolman delivers what feels like her most complete work yet, an album that reflects not just who she is as a songwriter and performer, but who she has become as a wife, mother and woman navigating the beautifully messy r

Some songs live with us for years before revealing what they were truly meant to say. For Kat Velasco, “Ventura Highway” was first a childhood favorite, a breezy classic filled with California sunshine, open roads and the promise of somewhere new. After losing her brother Evans a year ago, however, the song took on a far deeper meaning. In Velasco’s hands, it becomes more than a cover. It becomes a road back to someone she loves. Courtesy Of Kat Velasco Originally made famous

Wade Bowen has never been an artist who needs to shout to make you listen. For years, the Texas mainstay has built his reputation on lived-in storytelling, emotional weight and songs that feel like conversations after midnight. But on “Burned In The Fire,” Bowen sounds noticeably more alive, loose and fired up than he has in the recent past, and the change of pace suits him. Courtesy Of Wade Bowen Pulled from his forthcoming album, The Version Of Me You Get, out September 25