Best New Country Songs

It might be Friday the 13th, but even the most superstitious amongst you has to agree we are very much in luck this Friday with all the incredible new songs we've got in this week's round up of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and americana.

We've got big new songs from Dierks Bentley, Margo Price, Kane Brown, Russell Dickerson, Joshua Ray Walker and lots more for you. Listen along to our Holler Best New Country playlist on Spotify, YouTube, Amazon and Apple Music.

This week's Best New Country cover star sees the return of Tyler Childers. The 7x Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, musician and performer has announced that he will release his new album, Snipe Hunter, on 25 July via Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records.

A thirteen-track collection produced by Rick Rubin with additional production from Childers and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn, the first taste of the new album comes with the long dreamd of release of fan-favourite, 'Nose on the Grindstone,' which is officially out now for the first time after years of being played on the road.

Watch the video for 'Nose on the Grindstone' below.

Country fans, we are headed for an almighty country showdown to rival the legendary chart battle between Britpop rivals Blur and Oasis! Earlier in the week Zach Top announced his highly anticipated new album Ain’t In It For My Health, due out on 29 August with the first single, 'Good Times and Tan Lines, and 24 hours later Margo Price threw her hat into the ring with the announcement of her new album., Hard Headed Woman, for the exact same day.

Reunited with producer Matt Ross-Spang, recorded in the historic RCA Studio A, and featuring duets with Tyler Childers and Jesse Welles, the album marks the first album that Price has made in Nashville, a town she has called home for more than 20 years, and vitally helped to transform, creating a lane where independent and insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream.

The first taste of the album comes with 'Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down,' a song that speaks for the overlooked and under-served, the downtrodden and forgotten. While the track's titular phrase originates from a call for resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Price was most inspired by the message that Kris Kristofferson whispered to Sinéad O'Connor when she was booed on stage at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert. Co-written with Jeremy Ivey, Kris Kristofferson and Rodney Crowell, one of the early champions who urged Price to create Hard Headed Woman, 'Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down' serves as a reminder to always keep fighting for justice and your beliefs.

Watch the video for 'Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down' below.

Zach Bryan replaces John Moreland with his buddy J.R. Carroll on a reworking of 'Memphis, The Blues' and Kashus Culpepper brings in Sierra Ferrell to duet on 'Broken Wing Bird,' their distinctly different voices weaving together for a gorgeous ode to a delicate but fraught love.

Elsewhere this week we've got new ones from Kane Brown, Kayley Green, Cole Swindell and Lauren Alaina. While Faith Hopkins has decided to just 'Let Him Have It,' Parker McCollum gives us another taste of his forthcoming album with 'Killin' Me' and Emma Andersen finally releases 'Simple Math,' the viral summer smash that's been driving us all crazy. In a good way.

"I actually wrote Simple Math last summer," she shared. "I have some of the worst spending habits known to man. I love my iced coffee, thrifting, shopping, and sweet treats, so when my parents told me I should really try and save (which I really should have) my response was that I'd rather spend it and have fun! I realized my reaction to that said a lot about my nature as a person, and it really just evolved into a broader commentary about how I live and want to live!"

Just in time for Father's Day this Sunday, Cole Swindell is wishing his own dad could be there for the birth of his son, Rodell Duff releases the poignant 'Growing Up Too (Ryder’s Song)' and Chancey Williams casts his own father in the video for his new single, 'Pearl Snap Preacher,' a song loosely inspired by his rancher father.

Elsewhere, Randall King and Braxton Keith team up for 'Cheatin' On My Honky Tonk,' Bones Owens is at an 'Old Time Low' and Tanner Adell drops the badass country pop ballad, 'Snakeskin.' Plus we've got new songs from Marcus King Band, Aaron Watson, WESKO, Bailey James, Cam and the Last Revel.

This week's big album release comes from Dierks Bentley. He releases his 11th studio album, Broken Branches, today.

“The country music community has a lot of broken branches in it. That’s why we’re all here,” Bentley explains. “We want to do something a little bit different, and I think everyone sees themselves like that – certainly in country. This is the people’s music and it represents that spirit of individuality so well – it’s just about doing it our own way.”

Bentley spent months listening to songs, often driving around the backroads of his Tennessee home, spinning raw demos with no names attached to the songs. Then he chose a mix of tracks with deep meanings and distinctive quirks, centered on the imperfect perfections of community spirit.

Executive Produced by Mary Hilliard Harrington, each song grew from acoustic-guitar foundation in whatever direction felt right, and Bentley calls that a testament to producers Jon Randall and Ross Copperman, plus musicians like Charlie Worsham, Jedd Hughes, Rob McNelley and Bryan Sutton. Co-writing just four tracks himself and securing seven from outside writers (many for the first time), Bentley dug deeper than ever before into Nashville’s thriving songwriting community.

“I think that’s what’s special about country – we’re still making music in the studio with our buddies,” Bentley says. “We’re still getting together and talking about the songs and letting the musicians have a big say. It’s a good team - maybe a little messed up - but that’s the whole idea behind broken branches, so it just works.”

We've included the title track, featuring John Anderson and Riley Green, in our playlist today. Plus we've got songs from new albums and EPs by Dominique and the Diamonds, Dillon Carmichael, Jack Barksdale and Zach Thompson. While Joshua Ray Walker slathers on the factor 50 as he hits the beach for what's destined to become the soundtrack to our summer with the tropical country flavoured 'Tropicana.'

The 10-song collection of beach-country songs was written during his treatment for stage 3b colon cancer and born from fantasies of ocean breezes and sandy beaches while the longtime road warrior was confined to his home while undergoing chemotherapy. Tropicana trades honky-tonks for hammocks, offering a rallying cry of resilience wrapped in tropical twang.

“Tropicana is all about escapism. It was a great distraction and so much fun to make, I hope people have as good of a time listening to it as I had writing and recording it,” Walker says about the release of the new album.

"I was at home for a year, without the ability to play shows or even take a vacation," Walker explains. "Since I couldn't leave town and go see a palm tree in real life, I started writing about them." Inspired by Jimmy Buffet's early records, George Strait's vacation-minded hits, and the glory days of '90s country music, Walker's new songs all shared a common location: a mythical beachside hotel called The Tropicana.

"It's the sort of place where you can order a piña colada at the pool bar and go wander down a nondescript beach," Walker says. "I couldn't go to the beach, so I decided to bring the beach to me."

Every week we like to shine our Holler spotlight onto a song we're particularly head over heels with and this week we've fallen hard for the new one from Cole Goodwin, 'Girlfriend's Got A Boyfriend.'

“I’ve always been a big fan of a good ole cheating song, and I wanted to write a lighthearted take on a situation nobody wants to find themselves in," Goodwin says about the humorous honky tonk anti-love song. "I wrote this one with a couple buddies in Nashville, and I can’t wait for y’all to hear it!”

In 'Girlfriend's Got A Boyfriend' the singer somehow sees the funny side to a seriously unfunny situation and comes up with an absolute banger in the process. Almost worth getting cheated on for a song like this.

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

1. 1.

   Nose on the Grindstone

   Tyler Childers

2. 2.

   Good Times & Tan Lines

   Zach Top

3. 3.

   Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down

   Margo Price

4. 4.

   Broken Branches (feat. John Anderson and Riley Green)

   Dierks Bentley

5. 5.

   Snakeskin

   Tanner Adell

6. 6.

   Heard It In A Country Song

   Russell Dickerson

7. 7.

   2 Pair

   Kane Brown

8. 8.

   Hoedown

   Ink

9. 9.

   Cheatin' On My Honky Tonk (feat. Braxton Keith)

   Randall King

10. 10.

    Tropicana

    Joshua Ray Walker

11. 11.

    You'd Still Be Drunk

    Kayley Green

12. 12.

    Dale Jr.

    Cole Swindell

13. 13.

    Heaven Sent

    Lauren Alaina

14. 14.

    Girlfriend's Got A Boyfriend

    Cole Goodwin

15. 15.

    Killin' Me

    Parker McCollum

16. 16.

    Hidin Behind This Microphone (Acoustic feat. Cody Johnson)

    Wade Bowen

17. 17.

    Memphis, The Blues

    Zach Bryan

18. 18.

    Simple Math

    Emma Andersen

19. 19.

    Pearl Snap Preacher

    Chancey Williams

20. 20.

    Turns Out That I Am God

    Cam

21. 21.

    The Canyon

    Dominique & The Diamonds

22. 22.

    Go On

    The Last Revel

23. 23.

    Waking Up In Our Break Up

    Ingrid

24. 24.

    Growing Up Too (Ryder's Song)

    Rodell Duff

25. 25.

    Clams Casino

    Brian Dunne

26. 26.

    I am the Cavalry

    Jared Dustin Griffin

27. 27.

    Ireland's Child

    Zach Thompson

28. 28.

    Good On Paper

    Bailey James

29. 29.

    Carolina Honey

    Marcus King Band

30. 30.

    Getter Back Song

    Aaron Watson

31. 31.

    Let Him Have It

    Faith Hopkins

32. 32.

    Do Si Do

    Scott Wolverton

33. 33.

    Pretend

    Wesko

34. 34.

    American Radio

    Kai Crowe-Getty

35. 35.

    Miss Me By Now

    Norman North

36. 36.

    Only Human

    Jack Barksdale

37. 37.

    Dad & Me

    Michael Warren

38. 38.

    Old Time Low

    Bones Owens

39. 39.

    American Dream

    Jac Ross

40. 40.

    She Gone

    Dillon Carmichael

41. 41.

    What Mattered Most

    Ty Herndon and LeAnn Rimes

42. 42.

    Be Together

    Peech.

43. 43.

    Bordertown

    Tyler Dial

44. 44.

    Memory Down

    Dylan Wolfe

45. 45.

    Whatever Gets You There

    Callum Kerr

46. 46.

    Talk Dirt To Me

    Sadie Bass

47. 47.

    Enough For Me

    Payton Smith

48. 48.

    Thick as Thieves

    George Pippen

49. 49.

    Ask A Daisy

    Gray Robinson

50. 50.

    7 Words

    Dallas Alexander

51. 51.

    Disappearing Ink

    Dallas Burrow

52. 52.

    Secondhand Smoke

    Alex Miller

53. 53.

    Know You By Heart

    Alyssa Flaherty

54. 54.

    Risky

    HALIE and Carter Pinholster

55. 55.

    Stay at Home Dad

    Chandler Brown

56. 56.

    It Ain't Me

    Emmett Jerome

57. 57.

    Born To Try

    Dylan Caine

58. 58.

    Getting Home

    Antwane Tyler

59. 59.

    Deep Down

    Jams Dupré

60. 60.

    Man of the North

    Liam St. John

61. 61.

    The Garden

    Abbie Callahan

62. 62.

    If You Can Bluff

    Wild Mountain Mystics

63. 63.

    The Whiskey Makes Her Miss Me

    Ansel Brown

64. 64.

    Bend in the Road

    East Nash Grass

65. 65.

    Summer Love

    Andrew Salgado

66. 66.

    The One That Got Away

    Barefoot Joe

67. 67.

    It Gets Better

    Mark Robert Cash

68. 68.

    Gathered Dust

    Leaf Crown

69. 69.

    Liquored Up

    Cole Stephens

70. 70.

    Tools over Toys

    Dee White

71. 71.

    Damn Broke

    Chris Andreucci

72. 72.

    Babies Raising' Babies

    Jessie G

73. 73.

    Mississippi Remix

    Phil Vassar

74. 74.

    Time After Time

    Ashley Wineland

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