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It’s been an exciting week in country music. Sturgill Simpson has changed his name and announced a new album, Dolly Parton is remaking 9 to 5 with Jennifer Aniston, while Lainey Wilson is off to Las Vegas. With all that going on, it’s no surprise that this week’s Best New Country playlist is bursting at the seams with big new songs.

This week’s Best New Country cover star is Megan Moroney, who gives us another taste of her forthcoming album Am I Okay? due out in July with the witty and wonderful ‘Man On the Moon.’

It’s nearly 55 years since Neil Armstrong took that first small step for a man and a giant leap for mankind, and Megan Moroney has had just about enough of men and all their nonsense. As far as she’s concerned, it’s time we sent a few more of them up into orbit. They can leap about to their heart’s content up there, as long as they’re as far away from her as possible!

“Let’s play a game,” she asked her fans on Instagram during the week. “Why are you sending a man to the moon?”

The answers that came back ranged from “Cheating on me w my best friend” (“prison for both of them,” Megan declared) to “Went to a strip club while I was IN THE HOSPITAL,” to which Megan replied, “the moon isn’t far enough.”

“HAHA UMMMM WHAT GOODBYE,” Megan wrote beneath one reply that said her ex-boyfriend had “slept with his cousin and thought it was normal.” Ewww what’s wrong with everyone?!

Although Megan was kind of impressed by some of the more dramatic romantic gestures. “I blocked his number so he got arrested to make me his one phone call from jail,” wrote one fan, to which Megan replied, “I need a man to want me like this lmaoooo.”

Whatever your reason for sending a man to the moon, Megan has got your back when the time comes to launch them off into space.

Carly Pearce’s ex will be wishing he was on his way to the moon. He won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, not now that Carly has set alight to his chevy Z71. That’s what you get for messing around behind Carly’s back though. Written by Carly with Justin Ebach and Charles Kelley and taken from her new album, hummingbird, we’ve got her revenge country instant classic ‘truck on fire’ on our Best New Country playlist today.

In many cultures, the hummingbird is a symbol of healing, hope and endurance, a tiny warrior that will fight with outsize ferocity to protect itself. After a season of loss and growth, Carly Pearce started to take inspiration and comfort from the little birds, pouring it into her fittingly titled fourth studio album hummingbird, the follow up to her Holler Album of The Year 29: Written in Stone.

Where her previous album 29: WRITTEN IN STONE felt like a report from inside the storm, the new album documents Pearce’s cautiously hopeful steps toward healing and happiness, that next stage of the process, when you’re putting in the work to rebuild stronger than you were before and finding little moments of joy along the way. Like setting fire to you duplicitous ex-husband’s truck.

Produced by Pearce with collaborators Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, the album includes the previously released tracks ‘my place,’ ‘heels over head,’ ‘country music made me do it,’ ‘fault line,’ the Chris Stapleton duet ‘we don’t fight anymore’ and the title track as well as eight new songs.

She might not have been able to find the shift key recently, but she knows where to find a gas can when she wants to. “Man may have discovered fire,” as Carrie says in Sex and the City, “but women discovered how to play with it.”

With all these disappointing men everywhere, sometimes you wonder why heterosexual women even bloody bother at all. Thomas Rhett is one boyfriend you wouldn’t need to worry about though.

This week the King of Boyfriend Country announced that his seventh studio album, About A Woman, is coming out on August 23rd. Having spent just over 10 years gathering 22 Number Ones, 16 billion streams and armfuls of awards and through that time, he’s never remained static. With both songwriting prowess and charisma, his career has been fueled by equal parts energy and emotion, to continually keep fans on their toes…and with this new album he wants to put them on their feet. He drops the irresistible dancefloor filler ‘Gone Country’ today.

“From top to bottom, I wanted to exude joy and fun with this project - and really just make people move,” Rhett says, describing a set which takes timeless romantic nostalgia to country’s progressive cutting edge. “I went into making this record with a fearless attitude, put my blinders on and my head down to try and make really fun music."

Now enjoying a life chapter that allows him and his wife Lauren a little space to tend their romantic flame - the muse for so much of his work - the famous family man shines with renewed excitement as he pays tribute to their romance.

“I feel like if you were to ask me what this record is about, the answer would be it’s about one woman, my wife, and it gave me an opportunity to say ‘I love you’ in a lot of different ways,” he adds.

He’s not the only one. Maggie Antone is very much in love too, and she’s found lots of different ways to tell the whole world about it. Unfortunately, the object of her affections seems to be the only person who hasn’t she hasn’t got around to telling yet. Maybe he’ll take the hint when he listens to her new single. She releases ‘Everyone But You’ and announces that her forthcoming full length debut, Rhinestoned, will be coming out on Love Big on August 23rd.

Co-produced by Antone alongside Carrie K. (Noah Kahan, Jessie Murph, Suki Waterhouse), with writing contributions from Trent Dabbs, Aaron Raitiere, Jillian Jacqueline and Antone’s longtime hero Natalie Hemby, Rhinestoned strike the perfect balance of raucous wit and disarming vulnerability, with her distinctly raspy drawl front and centre. The result is an album that’s a ton of fun and utterly human, an honest affirmation of life’s ups and downs.

“Sometimes you don’t have that full love story where you meet someone, you fall in love, you date for a long time, you break up, and then you’re upset; sometimes we just have these short-lived little things,” she says. “This album is about a million of those teeny tiny little things, all wrapped up into one story. No matter how big or small it is, when you’ve gone through something and you hurt, it matters.”

Of course, who needs love anyway! Especially when you’ve got friends like Kylie and Shania. Orville Peck, Diplo and Yung Gravy are having the most fabulous times of their lives hanging out with the pop icons on a pair of party popping singles out today.

Shania and Yung Gravy are singing about the delights of everyone’s favourite gluten free hard seltzer White Claw in song that sounds like Shania guesting on a Beat Happening song, while Orville Peck and Kylie’s ‘Midnight Ride’ is a slightly less bonkers but just as genre-blurring collaboration with superstar DJ/producer Diplo, which they premiered during Kylie's headline set at Out Loud Festival at WeHo Pride on June 2, where Peck appeared as a surprise guest.

Serving as the latest single from Peck's upcoming Stampede album, the track combines country style, pop hooks, and club beats to create a dance floor-ready disco anthem.

Another loveable (but slightly less dance floor-ready) duo, Muscadine Bloodline are back with ‘10-90,’ the first taste of their hotly anticipated new album, The Coastal Plain, due out in August.

“Relationships always have ups and downs and this song is a testament to picking up the extra care that your partner might need at the time,” the band shared. “Sometimes it can be 50/50 but most of the time the percentage is swayed one way or the other depending on what you or your partner is going through. This song is special because of that!”

Luke Combs has got men on his mind too. But not in a romantic way. After months of snippets being trickled out across his socials, the singer’s fifth studio album, Fathers & Sons, will be arriving next bloody week!

Described as a "first-of-its-kind album release," the 12-track project was recorded entirely live, features Combs' most personal songwriting to date, as he reflects on his own experiences being a dad and the unique bond between parents and their children.

“To my boys, first and foremost, I will always love you, no matter what,” Luke said addressing his own sons, Tex and Beau. “With 'The Man He Sees In Me', I want you to know that even though I’m not perfect, I try my hardest every day to be the best version of myself for you both. I’ll make mistakes along the way and some days you’ll be sick of your old man, I’m sure, but, dang, we’ll have some fun too. I can’t wait to see what you both turn out to be like and I hope someday down the road, I get to watch you and your kids do the same. Love, Dad.”

After having released 'Pink Skies' a couple of weeks ago, Zach Bryan is continuing with the theme of colours releasing his Noeline Hofman duet ‘Purple Gas,’ another taste of the forthcoming Great American Bar Scene album.

The song was originally written by Alberta, Canada native Hofmann, who first went viral with the song after having recorded a verse and shared it across her social media. Zach Bryan was scrolling through one day when he came across it and invited Hofmann to record the song as part of his Belting Bronco Live Session Series on YouTube.

Now it seems they’ve gone into the studio and laid down a version of 'Purple Gas' as a duet.

"This song brought me to tears the first time I heard it,” Zach said about the song appearing on his new album. “So it was really important for me that Noeline gave me the privilege to sing it with her. Noeline resonates like Gillian Welch to me and Gillian is one of my favourite musicans to ever live; now Noeline is too. I have never covered another musician on an album and it's because I was waiting on someone to write a song like this".

After Megan Moroney’s ‘Never Left Me’ last week, this week’s song from the Twisters: The Movie soundtrack comes courtesy of Tucker Wetmore with ‘Already Had It.’

Kaitlin Butts releases another song from her highly anticipated new album, Roadrunner!

Due out on June 28th, for her third album, the Nashville-based musician leaned into her lifelong love of musical theatre and dreamed up a modern-day reimagining of the soundtrack to her all-time favourite musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! The result is a high concept but candidly autobiographical LP featuring a budding romance between cowboy Curly and farm girl Laurey in the early 1900s that draws much of its power from Butts’ forward-thinking perspective on femininity and independence and show the full force and extraordinary depth of her artistry for the very first time.

For the Oklahoma-native Kaitlin Butts, getting Country Music Hall of Fame member and fellow Okie Vince Gill to sing on her new song ‘Come Rest Your Head (On My Pillow)’ is a bit of a dream come true. Gill’s soaring tenor intertwines with Butts’ powerhouse alto on the song’s chorus, a stunning compliment to the slow-burning song.

"As an artist, there are accomplishments that you dream about, but to have such a legendary Okie artist like Vince Gill feature on 'Come Rest Your Head (On My Pillow)' is something I could have never even dreamed up," shares Butts."I feel so lucky to have gotten the chance to meet Vince and I feel privileged to get to say that I have one of the most angelic, iconic voices on a song of mine."

Elsewhere Danielle Bradbery is dealing with a ‘Broken Boy’ in her new single, while Sophia Scott is getting all green fingered out in the garden after a break up on the wonderfully summery empowerment anthem ‘Wildflowers.’ Matt Stell releases his new 10-track project ‘Born Lonely’ and Ella Langley has revealed that her debut album, hungover, will be coming out on August 2nd and shares the brilliant title track. Plus Kiely Connell releases another single from her forthcoming album, My Own Company.

"I’ve known countless people like the character in this song," Kiely told us about 'Through To You'. "This was inspired by the small-town rock stars I know. They’ve never met a drink they couldn’t down or a drug they wouldn’t try. In dimly lit drunken moments they’ll confess to you that they know they’ve got a problem and you can’t seem to help them, and they can never help themselves."

Cristina Vane kicks off a fresh chapter by sharing her first new music since her Make Myself Me Again album in 2022. Her latest single ‘You Ain’t Special’, featuring country legend Kenny Vaughan on telecaster, offers a tantalizing glimpse into her upcoming fourth album, Hear My Call, set for release early 2025.

“This song came to me on a sunny morning in Tennessee after a recent heartache," Vane says. "I was feeling sorry for myself, but also feeling quite disgruntled by the whole situation, and ‘You Ain’t Special’ sort of tumbled out in one go as a way to reclaim my power in the situation.”

Watch the video for 'You Ain't Special' below.

We’ve got new ones from Warren Zeiders, Bella White, Flatland Cavalry, Mickey Guyton, Waylon Wyatt, HARDY and Koe Wetzel with Jessie Murph. All these and lots more are featured in this week’s bumper Best New Country.

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

1. 1.

   Man on the Moon

   Megan Moroney

2. 2.

   truck on fire

   Carly Pearce

3. 3.

   Purple Gas

   Zach Bryan and Noeline Hofman

4. 4.

   Everyone But You

   Maggie Antone

5. 5.

   The Man He Sees in Me

   Luke Combs

6. 6.

   Gone Country

   Thomas Rhett

7. 7.

   Midnight Ride

   Orville Peck, Kylie and Diplo

8. 8.

   Come Rest Your Head (On My Pillow)

   Kaitlin Butts and Vince Gill

9. 9.

   10-90

   Muscadine Bloodline

10. 10.

    Already Had It

    Tucker Wetmore

11. 11.

    White Claw

    Yung Gravy and Shania Twain

12. 12.

    hungover

    Ella Langley

13. 13.

    Broken Boy

    Danielle Bradbery

14. 14.

    High Road

    Koe Wetzel and Jessie Murph

15. 15.

    Write One (feat. Keith Urban)

    Karley Scott Collins

16. 16.

    Landslide

    Flatland Cavalry

17. 17.

    Wildflowers

    Sophia Scott

18. 18.

    Concret and Barbed Wire

    Bella White

19. 19.

    Countin' The Miles

    Jesse Daniel

20. 20.

    Through To You

    Kiely Connell

21. 21.

    Relapse

    Warren Zeiders

22. 22.

    Smooth

    Matt Stell

23. 23.

    Make It Me

    Mickey Guyton

24. 24.

    Shut Up Train

    Little Big Town and Kelsea Ballerini

25. 25.

    Breakup Over Breakfast

    Avery Anna

26. 26.

    WHISKEY WHISKEY

    Graham Barham

27. 27.

    Phoning Heaven

    Waylon Wyatt

28. 28.

    Spotlight

    Johnny Cash and Dan Auerbach

29. 29.

    You Ain't Special

    Cristina Vane

30. 30.

    Gettin' Back Up To Heaven

    Mae Estes

31. 31.

    Macbeth

    Max McNown

32. 32.

    Sweetheart

    Gavin Adcock

33. 33.

    Striking Out

    Josh Meloy

34. 34.

    Iris

    Mitchell Tenpenny

35. 35.

    Better Than This

    Sara Evans

36. 36.

    All I Wanna Do Is Drink

    Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen

37. 37.

    Pretty Much

    HunterGirl

38. 38.

    I Could Use One

    Tracy Lawrence

39. 39.

    Wild Again

    LANCO

40. 40.

    SIX FEET UNDER (Caleigh's Song)

    HARDY

41. 41.

    Silver Linings

    Sarah Darling

42. 42.

    Make It Love

    Levi Hummon

43. 43.

    Lived Long Enough

    Tim Dugger

44. 44.

    Gone Fishin'

    Taylor Moss

45. 45.

    Richmond City Jail

    Jack Wharff

46. 46.

    Love & Texas

    Regan Stewart

47. 47.

    Gay for You

    Folk Uke

48. 48.

    Livin' the Dream

    Josh Morningstar

49. 49.

    Wasting Your Time

    The Chapin Sisters

50. 50.

    Paler Shade Of Blue

    Jack Mckeon

51. 51.

    Get Outta My Way

    Highway Natives

52. 52.

    Either Way

    Lauren Freebird

53. 53.

    Bonfire

    Alice Wallace

54. 54.

    What I Wouldn't Do

    Shantaia

55. 55.

    One More (Real Hypha Remix)

    Brian Falduto

56. 56.

    Lover Take It Easy

    Bonny Light Horseman

57. 57.

    Gold in the Sand

    Karen Jonas

58. 58.

    Mess You Up Good

    Sarah Johnson

59. 59.

    Dreamland

    Ever-Lovin' Jug Band

60. 60.

    Colorado River

    Shovels and Rope

61. 61.

    Beauty in the Broken

    Pryor Baird

62. 62.

    What Might Have Been

    Troy Cartwright

63. 63.

    Thought About Calling You Today

    Trey Lewis

64. 64.

    Tonight I Am

    Amanda Jordan

65. 65.

    Checkered Vans

    Austin Burke

66. 66.

    Heaven on Dirt

    Logan Mize

67. 67.

    Red Dirt on Mars

    Angie K

68. 68.

    Joy

    Grace Pettis

69. 69.

    Two Way Drive

    Hudson Westbrook

70. 70.

    Marlboro Man

    Kaleb Sanders

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