Country Music Features

Nashville's best kept secret Teddy and the Rough Riders talk about their new self-titled, Margo Price-produced album and premiere it exclusively with Holler

Taken from her forthcoming You Thought You Knew EP, ‘Don’t Look Back’ came about during the lockdown; a musical fruit of Lindsay Lou and her home, the infamous Petway house in Nashville; as much a part of the music scene there as the players that have passed through it over the years.

‘Emerald Blue’ sits happily at the crossroads of harmony-drenched pop, rustic Americana, Appalachian folk and about a half-dozen other styles, all meeting and mixing round the warmth of Duhon’s vocals; world weary, stretched and always full of soul.

A loose fusion of floor-thumping country, hand-clapping gospel folk and low down, dirty delta blues that lifts you up and shakes out your soul.

Mixing the outlaw swagger of Waylon Jennings with the smooth-as-custard creaminess of golden age Merle Haggard, Willdee is classic in that same only-in-America way that Wranglers, Coca Cola and Easy Cheese are.