Best New Country Songs

It's time for another of our weekly round ups of all the biggest and best new releases from the world of country and americana. This week we've got big new songs from Colter Wall, Morgan Wallen and Margo Price. Plus, some unlikely cover versions and the first signs of Christmas.

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 Ella Langley. She releases her highly anticipated new single 'Choosin’ Texas' today. The song was co-written and produced by Ella with Miranda Lambert, alongside producer Ben West and co-writers Luke Dick and Joybeth Taylor. Lambert also performs background vocals on track.

“I had the amazing opportunity to sit down in a room with Miranda, Luke, and Joybeth on a writing retreat about a year ago," Ella says about how the song came about. "We wrote a bunch of songs together, but the second one really stuck with me. Miranda, being from Texas, started telling us one of her wild stories about drinkin’ and doing something ridiculous, and I said, ‘Well, she’s from Texas, I can tell.’ As soon as I said that, we all just looked at each other like - yep, that’s it! That’s the next song. She’s from Texas, the girl he went with. And I thought well… you know I love a song like that.”

“Ella may have grown up in Alabama, but she has a rowdy, fiery side that us Texas women recognize and respect," Miranda adds. "She’s an artist through and through, and it was important to me to let her artistry shine through at every stage of the process, from co-writing to co-producing. I’m so proud of how 'Choosin’ Texas' does that, and can’t wait to see the world continue to get to know Ella through this song.”

Ella first teased 'Choosin’ Texas' in February at her show in Nacogdoches, TX, and brought it back to the stage last night in Houston as she began her special run of Texas dates this weekend.

Watch the lyric video below

We've got new songs this week from two of this month's 10 Artists You Need to Know. Baylee Lynn releases 'That's What I'll Be' ahead of the song's inclusion on the soundtrack to the second series of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated smash-hit rom-com Nobody Wants This next week, where it appears alongside country heavyweights like Chris Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves and Ella Langley, and Lakelin Lemmings releases her timely song of inspiration, 'Keep the Faith,' written by Lori, Phil Barton and Jaron Boyer.

“I mostly write my own songs, but when ‘Keep the Faith’ was pitched to me, I fell in love with the song because it has such a powerful message,” says Lakelin. “It spoke to my own Christian faith and my belief that when days are hard, you've just got to keep on praying, keep on believing and keep on going. With everything that's currently happening in the world, no matter what your religious or political beliefs are, we all need to keep the faith right now.”

Elsewhere, Drake Milligan is mulling over some past lovers in 'Old Flames, Old Whiskey' and Josh Ross is checking in with his family on 'Mama, I'm Coming Home.' While Hudson Westbrook is falling under the spell of someone with 'Pretty Privilege.'

We've got a few country covers popping up in our playlist today. Morgan Wallen releases his version of Nothing But Thieves’ 2015 song ‘Graveyard Whistling’ recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios during his time in London for the UK's BST Hyde Park Festival.

After delivering show-stopping performances of the song at Farm Aid with Billy Strings and Jesse Welles, and Newport Folk Festival with John C. Reilly, Margo Price has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Bob Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm.' Having first debuted 60 years ago in 1965, as part of Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, Price repurposes the track's defiant message for the present. While Joshua Quimby is covering a legend on his new EP, Quimby Does Hank, featuring duets with Cristina Vane, The Hill County Devil and Liam St. John. Chancey Williams is reimagining Hal Ketchum's 'Past the Point of Rescue,' Alex Hall is tackling 'Dancing In The Dark' and Dan + Shay cover Taylor Swift's 'Back To December' just in time for Christmas.

As always we've got some juicy collabs in our Best New Country playlist including duets between Thomas Rhett and One Direction's Niall Horan, Clay Street Unit and Lindsay Lou and Zac Brown Band and Marcus King. While Joshua Queen drafts in Avery Anna for a new version of 'Dusty Bibles.'

Elsewhere we've got new ones from Kimberly Kelly, Presley Haile, Kelleigh Bannen, Brock Phillips, Leon Majcen and Cooper Alan. Plus, Emily Scott Robinson announces the release of her new album, Appalachia, for January next year on Oh Boy Records. The 10-song collection, produced by Josh Kaufman at Dreamland Recording Studios in upstate New York, finds Robinson at her most fearless and tender, singing about love and loss, grief and hope, and the power of community in the face of devastation. The album’s title track, 'Appalachia,' is in our playlist today.

“The song is less about what we can control and more about how we can care for one another,” Robinson says. “We’re so much stronger when we have a community. Then we have hope.”

Watch the video, inspired by the stories of resilience following Hurricane Helene, which ravaged Western North Carolina in September 2024, below.

In new album releases today, Chris Young shares his new 14 track album, I Didn’t Come Here To Leave, and William Prince is going Further From the Country on his new one.

Jillian Jacqueline releases her most vulnerable and personal album yet, MotherDaughterSisterWife, today, written while becoming a mother, reflecting on the patterns, stories and scars that shaped her, while another of our 10 Artists You Need to Know from this month, Rianne Downey releases her beautiful new album, The Consequence Of Love.

Plus we've got songs from new long players and EPs by Kenny Feidler, Wesko, Emma Jean Oakley, Todd Snider, Billie Jo Jones and Chancey Williams. Plus Anne Wilson releases her new album, Stars, with 12 tracks – all co-written by Wilson – finding the Kentucky native stepping fully into her own as a storyteller, blending the grit of country with the hope of faith in a way that is entirely her own.

Every week Holler shines a spotlight on a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we're spotlighting Kentucky singer-songwriter Jeremy Pinnell.

Taken from his forthcoming Shooter Jennings produced album, Decades, due out at the end of the month, his new single 'Barabbas' uses stories of Samson, Delilah, and Goliath as parables for his own experiences with sin and redemption.

"This song was written in the summer of 2020, I was really just writing to write," he says about the song. "I love the first two lines of the chorus because they came from a real place inside of me. 'Jesus never shows up but the Devil always does.' I grew up in a very Christian home, so maybe I just wanted to say to myself that it’s okay not to believe."

When he began writing his 2021 release Goodbye L.A., Pinnell was a tireless road warrior with a packed schedule of shows, scribbling down lyrics between tour stops. That pace won him accolades and the respect of his peers, but it also left him feeling disconnected. Decades reflects on all that time spent in transit, speeding toward the future at the expense of the present. It is sobering and sparkling in the same breath, and the result is something new for Pinnell: an album about highways, hard lessons, and the human condition, stacked to the brim with songs that balance the uplift of his melodies with the gravity of his personal lyrics.

Watch the video, filmed in the studio with Shooter Jennings, below.

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

1. 1.

   Choosin' Texas

   Ella Langley

2. 2.

   Back to Me

   Colter Wall

3. 3.

   Gone

   Flatland Cavalry

4. 4.

   Pretty Privilege

   Hudson Westbrook

5. 5.

   Old Tricks

   Thomas Rhett and Niall Horan

6. 6.

   Hold Your Horses

   Anne Wilson

7. 7.

   Old Flames, Old Whiskey

   Drake Milligan

8. 8.

   Graveyard Whistling

   Morgan Wallen

9. 9.

   tin foil hat (panic attack version)

   Ashley Cooke

10. 10.

    Appalachia

    Emily Scott Robinson

11. 11.

    Boots On The Ground

    Chris Young

12. 12.

    Deep End

    Presley Haile

13. 13.

    Choctaw County

    Clay Street Unit and Lindsay Lou

14. 14.

    Talk Shit

    Kelleigh Bannen

15. 15.

    Hard Run (feat. Marcus King)

    Zac Brown Band

16. 16.

    Maggie's Farm

    Margo Price

17. 17.

    Dusty Bibles

    Josiah Queen and Avery Anna

18. 18.

    That's What I'll Be

    Baylee Lynn

19. 19.

    Keep the Faith

    Lakelin Lemmings

20. 20.

    Barabbas

    Jeremy Pinnell

21. 21.

    Don't Mind If I Do

    Luke Bell

22. 22.

    Mutual Obsession

    Katie Neal

23. 23.

    Something Else

    Brock Phillips

24. 24.

    Modern Day Woman

    Kimberly Kelly

25. 25.

    MotherDaughterSisterWife

    Jillian Jacqueline

26. 26.

    Hold On

    Wesko

27. 27.

    Mama, I'm Coming Home

    Josh Ross

28. 28.

    Call Me

    Grace Tyler

29. 29.

    More of You

    Ashley Ryan

30. 30.

    Further From the Country

    William Prince

31. 31.

    Somewhere Between

    Willie Nelson

32. 32.

    For the Bar

    Ashley Brooks

33. 33.

    Brick

    Joshua Ray Walker

34. 34.

    Making A Livin' (Not A Killin')

    Leon Majcen

35. 35.

    Foolish Pride

    Slater Nailey

36. 36.

    Big Day In Our Little World

    Adam Doleac

37. 37.

    Roots

    Cooper Alan

38. 38.

    Southern Lover (Miss Kentucky)

    Hayden Blount

39. 39.

    Thieves

    Roan Ash

40. 40.

    Jamie

    Coleman Jennings

41. 41.

    HELL IN HELLO

    Ashley Walls

42. 42.

    Hey, Good Lookin'

    Joshua Quimby and Cristina Vane

43. 43.

    The Coyotes

    Kenny Feidler

44. 44.

    Tequila's Hittin' Me Harder

    Billie Jo Jones

45. 45.

    Back To You

    Kat Luna

46. 46.

    MUTUAL GHOST

    Georgia Webster

47. 47.

    Not The One

    Dominique and the Diamonds

48. 48.

    Millionaire Money

    Angela Autumn

49. 49.

    Officer Down - 10th Anniversary

    Hannah Ellis

50. 50.

    Circles

    Greazy Alice

51. 51.

    Because

    Rianne Downey

52. 52.

    The Crown

    Kip Moore

53. 53.

    THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST.

    Todd Snider

54. 54.

    I Gave You Everything I Had

    Vince Gill

55. 55.

    Better If I Don't

    Jay Webb

56. 56.

    Hail Mary

    Blake Proehl

57. 57.

    Back To December

    Dan + Shay

58. 58.

    Good-bye L.A.

    Tony Joe White

59. 59.

    To A Beautiful Girl

    Joe Jordan

60. 60.

    Crazy

    Eddie And The Getaway

61. 61.

    Colder

    Jonas Conner

62. 62.

    Last Song I Ever Write

    Jordan Fletcher

63. 63.

    Watching Storms Roll In

    Walker Montgomery

64. 64.

    One More Slow Dance

    Pynk Beard

65. 65.

    Turn Around

    Drayton Farley

66. 66.

    An Old Outlaw Like Me

    Creed Fisher

67. 67.

    Another Man's Tears

    Jac Ross

68. 68.

    Three Time Loser

    Dan Seals and Jamey Johnson

69. 69.

    Til I Found You

    2 Lane Summer

70. 70.

    Dancing In The Dark

    Alex Hall

71. 71.

    Denim Blues

    Cameron Sacky Band

72. 72.

    Hot Shottin'

    Bottomland

73. 73.

    Chivalry

    Haley Mae Campbell

74. 74.

    Past The Point of Rescue

    Chancey Williams

75. 75.

    The Mustang

    Wes Bayliss

76. 76.

    Maraschino Cherry

    Sparkle Carcass

77. 77.

    10 Years

    Peech.

78. 78.

    Toxic

    Liam St. John

79. 79.

    Portland, Maine (feat. LeAnn Rimes)

    Donovan Woods

80. 80.

    Calling A Bluff

    Jerry Leger

81. 81.

    All Good Things

    Conor Clements

82. 82.

    Pick Me Up

    James McCann

83. 83.

    Throw Me A Bone

    Emma Jean Oakley

84. 84.

    Sober

    Avery Roberson

85. 85.

    Works For Me

    Nathaniel Bellows

86. 86.

    Little Rock

    Lucas John and the Delinquents

87. 87.

    Die on this Barstool

    Dave Lenahan

88. 88.

    Nothin' Like a Neon Night

    Kimberly Dawn

89. 89.

    Fire

    Ali Angel

90. 90.

    Cryin' Shame

    The Ransom Brothers

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