Dreamin’ Out Loud turns thirty and gets its first vinyl pressing on October 16. The number Trace Adkins buried in his own tour announcement matters more.
Wynonna released The Hard Truth on ANTI-, her first solo album in about ten years. The genre that sells family did not put out country music biggest family story.
Wynonna, Miranda Lambert, Gavin Adcock and HARDY all released music in the same week. We look at what a crowded October costs the artists who never get a week of their own.
Ian Noe’s third album is 16 songs staged as a single showcase set by a band that does not exist. We think it is the most interesting thing anyone has done with the country album format in 2026, and we explain what a festival should learn from it.
Twenty four titles arrive on one Friday, and the names driving the day came up outside the Music Row pipeline. What that says about who is making country records now.
So Much For Goodbyes is seventy four minutes about losing a mother, produced by T Bone Burnett. Why the right room for it is an open field, not a theater.
Thirteen tracks. Forty-nine minutes. And a title that doubles as a manifesto for every person who has ever written a song by hand, for a reason. We have spent the past week living inside Little Big Town's twelfth studio album, It's A Dying Art, released August 28 via MCA Nashville, and we keep arriving at…
Twelve songs. That is what Luke Bryan is bringing country fans when Signs drops on September 18, 2026, and after months of following every interview, radio session, and single release, we finally have the clearest possible picture of what his ninth studio album has in store. We have been paying close attention since he teased…
September 18 is circled on our calendar. That is the date Riley Green drops That's Just Me, his fourth studio album via Nashville Harbor Records and Entertainment, produced by Dann Huff. We have been tracking the Riley Green That's Just Me album rollout since the first single, and what we are watching is an artist…
Eleven songs. One Maryland hometown. One of country music's most fearless duos going all the way back to where they started. When Brothers Osborne announced Watertown this week, dropping October 23 via MCA Nashville, we flagged it immediately as one of the most significant album reveals of fall 2026. T.J. and John Osborne have never…
August 14, 2026 was already shaping up to be a significant Friday for country music when Ashley Cooke dropped her self-titled sophomore album on Big Loud Records. We had it queued the moment it hit streaming, and two weeks later, we are still playing it on repeat. The album, simply called ashley cooke, is 15…
Sixteen tracks. That is what Carly Pearce is delivering this Friday when Honest Woman lands on August 28 via BBR Music Group, and after tracking every pre-release single she has put out over the past several months, we at the Sunset Country Fest editorial team are genuinely excited in a way that does not happen…