Country Music Features

INTRODUCING•Premiere: Stacy Antonel - ‘Always the Outsider’

Written after a night out at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge, ‘Always the Outsider’ is a delightful misfit anthem that pours one out for the lonely wallflower in us all

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Willi Carlisle - 'Life on the Fence'

A wonderfully eccentric take on old-timey folk-country; a heartbreakingly honest protest song about the trials of bisexuality in a culture that shies away from nearly any expression of love between two men.

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INTRODUCING•New Artist of the Week: Abbey Cone

It’s definitely the same kind of party that you’ll find left-field country pop singers like Maren Morris, Jillian Jacqueline, Cam and Lauren Alaina dancing at, but Abbey Cone is more than capable of holding her own on the dancefloor and throwing down with the rest of them.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Joshua Dylan Balis - 'Lydia'

Leaning into the stadium-sized grandeur of War on Drugs and Tom Petty, as well as the lyrical brilliance of John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, 'Lydia' is a blissful slice of breezy heartland Americana; the kind of song that plays while the credits roll on a coming-of-age movie.

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INTRODUCING•Premiere: Hannah Juanita - 'Girl, Where You From?'

Front and centre in the march of alt-country traditionalists on Nashville, Hannah Juanita is back waving the banner for her brand of bare-knuckle throwback country, as she boldly reimagines classic honky tonk for the 2020s.

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INTRODUCING•Bob Sumner: Video Premiere - 'Broken Record'

‘Broken Record’ is a song for the bottom of that first bottle and the first few sips of the second; for those nights when all you want to do is sit there and soak it up in a bar that feels like home.