Best New Country Songs

It's time for another round up of all the biggest and best new music from the world of country and Americana. We've got big new releases this week from Morgan Wallen, HARDY, Eric Church and Tim McGraw. And that's just on one song!

Listen along to our Best New Country playlist on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Amazon.

This week's Best New Country cover star is Ella Langley. The three-time CMA award winner announced her sophomore album, Dandelion, this week for April and gave us another taste of what's to come with the title track.

The album is executive produced by Ella alongside Miranda Lambert and Ben West and marks Ella’s most personal body of work to date.

“This record has so much growth in it,” Ella shares. “I’ve never poured more of myself into a project, into a song, into an idea, and it’s fallen out so beautifully. It’s about learning yourself, making mistakes, and realizing that it’s all just part of life.”

For Ella, Dandelion is designed to feel easy and effortless — a record listeners can sink into word for word, or simply let play as it soundtracks everyday moments: “I want this record to be something that fans can relate to, but also something they want to get up and dance to at the same time,” she says. “To me, this record feels like fireflies in the summertime. It feels like windows down on a red dirt road. It feels like the best kind of Sunday afternoon. It feels like those days I remember as a kid where it felt like there weren't enough hours in the day. This record is really a love letter to that.”

Dandelions are masters of survival, thriving in even the harshest environments. Often dismissed as a common weed, this unassuming plant carries a deeper symbolism of hope, healing, and resilience. Adding to the poetic nature of the title.

“I learned that dandelion tea is actually a natural detox for the liver,” Ella noted. “So a record called Dandelion after a record called hungover made all the sense in the world to me.”

Watch the official visualizer for 'Dandelion' below

Next up, we've got the country supergroup to end all country supergroups as HARDY, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen and Tim McGraw join forces Highwaymen style for the brooding 'McArthur.' Written by Michael Hardy, Chase McGill, Jameson Rodgers, and Josh Thompson with production by Jay Joyce, the new song traces the changes of time and lineage across generations as each singer takes a verse of a different McArthur man down through the years, from John to Junior and Jones and Hunter.

"My bloodline they bled on this ground / soon we all find that's where we're bound," the foursome sing in unison. "And Father Time don't leave anyone out / when you pass on what you're gonna pass down."

Not to feel left out, ERNEST release a new song 'Lorelei,' making good on his promise to take his new music further south, 'Lorelei' fuses ERNEST's country sensibilities with a breezy coastal feel. The song was written alongside Rhett Akins, Ben Hayslip and Mark Holman.

Willie Nelson protege Lily Meola releases 'Never Kissed A Cowboy,' a soft centred honky tonk tribute to "Rough hands and rodeos, spinning me around do-si-do."

“‘It's about that dizzying moment when you meet someone who treats you well for the first time," Meola shares. "I didn’t even know how to receive it. But then I realized there’s something really sweet about someone going the extra mile.".

Elsewhere in this week's playlist Stella Lefty is 'Slow Dancin'' her way into our hearts, Noeline Hofmann covers Guy Clark's 'Dublin Blues' and Ian Munsick is celebrating signing with Triple Tigers with the appropriately titled 'Geronimo.

Written by Munsick, Devin Dawson and Mike Robinson and produced by Munsick and Robinson, 'Geronimo' is Munsick’s first music release off his next project since last year's Eagle Feather.

“Something tells me this is gonna be a big one…,” Munsick says about the song. “No word personifies the feeling of partnering with a new label, in a new year, and welcoming in the next chapter better than ‘Geronimo.’ In this song you’ll find themes of my old music like land and love but this time, blanketed in a sonic texture that perfectly captures who I am as an artist. It’s familiar yet eclectic, modern yet traditional, raw yet refined and with your help, it may very well be the biggest song I’ve ever released. Here’s to the new age… geronimo!!!”

Sing along with the lyric video to 'Geronimo' below

We've got all that plus new songs from Tyler Braden, Noah Kahan, Chris Janson, Josh Ross, Jamey Johnson and Frankie Ballard.

It feels like a particularly Holler coded week for new albums and EPs with some of our favourites dropping fresh new music for us.

First up we've got Appalachia, the new album from Emily Scott Robinson, after we were lucky enough to premiere the John Paul White duet 'Cast Iron Heart' earlier this week, and we've got 'Time Traveler' on our playlist today.

The 10-song collection, produced by Josh Kaufman (Grateful Dead, Anais Mitchell, Bonny Light Horseman) 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.

“There’s this thing I do with every record I make,” she says of the album. “I knit a prayer into it and ask for the songs to find their way to everyone who needs them. If my music can be of service in that way, then I’ve done my work.”

If you like Emily Scott Robinson then you'll love Natalie Del Carmen. We premiered 'Leanne' from her new album, Pastures, this week and now you've got the whole album to enjoy.

"I've heard stories about people growing up in small towns, wanting to move to a big city," she says about the album. "That's not me. I love living in a city, but I also feel connected to a traditional country sound and a small-town lifestyle. I crave both."

With Pastures, she builds a bridge between those two contrasts. Songs like the wistful, waltzing 'Plans Upon Plans' and the nostalgic 'Leanne' make no apologies for their countrified arrangements, but their lyrics tell a more universal story, capturing the zeitgeist of twenty something life in all its charmed and contradictory glory.

"To me, a pasture sounds like an open place where you can go anywhere," she says. "Sometimes, that's the most freeing thing… but other times, it can be an open invitation for doubt. Sometimes, it can be easy to write about love, because it's so accessible. But I try to write about things that are harder to talk about, like failing, or trying to live up to society's expectations, or grief, or the pressure to amount. With Pastures, I'm letting myself be free to make the music I want to make… and I'm letting myself do it on my timeline."

One of our top tips for 2026, Meels makes her full Lost Highway debut with the 7-song Across the Raccoon Strait EP, which includes her two fall 2025 singles – 'The Wizard' a whimsical yet deeply personal song that transforms her lifelong experience with OCD into a playful, poetic narrative, and 'Willow Song,' which invites listeners even deeper into her world, reminding them to seek stillness amid the chaos of life.

Watch the video for 'Out West' below

Elsewhere, Jenna Paulette gives her recent Horseback album the deluxe treatment and James McCann is back and wondering why It's Been So Long on his new album.

Each week we like to turn our Holler spotlight on a song that we think deserves a little extra light shining on it and this week we're shining it on the new single from Sydney Quiseng.

One of our Holler 10 Artists You Need To Know alumni, the former Echosmith frontwoman announces her new EP That’s My Baby! for 20 February with the breezily brilliant song that gives the album it's title, 'That's My Baby! (On Main Street). The EP is defined by reflection, resilience, and self-discovery, and chronicles her unfiltered experiences with love, loss, and personal growth as she steps into the next chapter of her story and prepares for the arrival of her daughter.

"I wrote this song very recently, but I knew right away that I wanted to finish it as soon as possible so it could come out while I was pregnant," she says about the title track. "I could already see myself promoting it with a baby bump. I was early in my pregnancy and writing with one of my favorite collaborators and friends, Oscar Charles in Franklin. Stepping into this next phase of life with my husband has been so exciting and I really wanted to write a song about how much I love him and this life we’re building. It’s always been in my nature to love big and loudly, and our marriage is no exception. I also thought it would be ironic and cute to have “That’s My Baby!” in the title, since I’m sure I’ll be screamin’, “that’s my baby!” about my little one to come too."

Check out 'That’s My Baby!' along with the rest of this week's new country and Americana releases and listen to the full playlist below:

1. 1.

   Dandelion

   Ella Langley

2. 2.

   McArthur

   HARDY, Eric Church, Tim McGraw and Morgan Wallen

3. 3.

   Lorelai

   ERNEST

4. 4.

   Out West

   Meels

5. 5.

   Geronimo

   Ian Munsick

6. 6.

   The Great Divide

   Noah Kahan

7. 7.

   Time Traveler

   Emily Scott Robinson

8. 8.

   Dublin Blues

   Noeline Hofmann

9. 9.

   Never Kissed a Cowboy

   Lily Meola

10. 10.

    Slow Dancin'

    STELLA LEFTY

11. 11.

    Dry County

    Tyler Braden

12. 12.

    Bar And Back

    Josh Ross

13. 13.

    Leanne

    Natalie Del Carmen

14. 14.

    More Of What Matters

    Jamey Johnson

15. 15.

    Let Me Love You

    Austin Snell

16. 16.

    Easy To Love, Harder To Hold

    Chris Janson

17. 17.

    Heart Of America

    Willie Nelson

18. 18.

    Whiskey Weather

    Jon Langston

19. 19.

    That's My Baby (On Main Street)

    Sydney Quiseng

20. 20.

    Whiskey Won't

    Lane Smith

21. 21.

    Written by a Woman

    Kelsey Lamb

22. 22.

    Redneck And You Know It

    Dalton Davis

23. 23.

    Money Runs Out

    Frankie Ballard

24. 24.

    Circling Around It

    Caitlyn Smith

25. 25.

    The Dirt

    Jenna Paulette and John Morgan

26. 26.

    Southbound

    James McCann

27. 27.

    A World Away

    John R. Miller

28. 28.

    Leave

    Logan Michael

29. 29.

    Another Lover

    Jillian Jacqueline

30. 30.

    Fast Lane

    Bella Mae

31. 31.

    Whiskey Rebound

    Katie Rigby

32. 32.

    Livin' In The Country

    Thompson Square

33. 33.

    Never Been Better

    Myles Morgan

34. 34.

    Mama's Boy

    Cody Webb

35. 35.

    Gone

    Kindred Valley

36. 36.

    Caught In Your Memory

    Jail Preacher

37. 37.

    Last at Sea

    Cordovas

38. 38.

    Someday

    Rob Baird and Julianna Rankin

39. 39.

    High School Sweetheart

    Kanaan Brock

40. 40.

    Hold You Tight

    Jay Allen

41. 41.

    Normal Man

    Will Slater

42. 42.

    I Can't Help

    Lil Man J

43. 43.

    If You Don't

    Brandon Lane and Ben Burgess

44. 44.

    Forever Home

    Evan Joseph

45. 45.

    Patrick Murphy

    Patrick Murphy

46. 46.

    MY REVIVAL

    MORGXN and Maggie Rose

47. 47.

    I Wanna See Your Playlist

    Ella Townley

48. 48.

    Twisters

    Brown Horse

49. 49.

    Street People

    Fabrizio

50. 50.

    Days Go By

    Kimberly Dawn

51. 51.

    Backstop

    Adam Sweet

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