Upcoming Country CD Releases
July 18, 2025
Dylan Gossett –
Westward
(Big Loud Texas / Mercury Records) – Dylan Gossett, who first broke out with the song "Coal," releases his debut full-length CD. Gossett, 26, previously released two EPs.
July 25, 2025
Cody Jinks –
In My Blood
(Late August) – Cody Jinks releases his 11th album, merging Southern rock and country. Produced by Joshua Thompson and Charles Godfrey, the record contains 11 songs.
Hunter Westbrook –
Texas Forever
(River House) – Hunter Westbrook releases his debut disc only 19 months after he put any music.
August 1, 2025
Morgan Wade –
The Party is Over (recovered)
(Sony Music Nashville) – Morgan Wade releases her fifth album, the follow-up to 2024's "Obsessed." The record contains 11 songs that she wrote solo. Some songs date back to before Wade signed her major-label deal and have been "recovered" here with all-new versions. Wade revisited her earlier writing sessions to revitalize past songs that still spoke to her today.
Zandi Holup –
Wildflower
(Big Loud) – Zandi Holup releases her debut, an 11-song effort. Ryan Hadlock and Holup produced the album except for one song, "Gas Station Flowers," which was produced by Charles Wesley Godwin's guitarist Al Torrence. Holup is on the folkier side of country.
August 2, 2025
Eli Young Band –
Strange Hours
(Self-released) – Long-running Texas band Eli Young Band release an album on their own after having been at Valory Music.
August 9, 2025
Russell Dickerson –
Famous Back Home
(Thirty Tigers) – Russell Dickerson releases his fourth studio effort. The disc contains a dozen songs, including 10 co-written by Dickerson.
August 15, 2025
Gavin Adcock –
Own Worst Enemy
(Warner) – Georgia native Gavin Adcock offers his second album.
August 20, 2025
Tommy Prine –
Love Circle
(Nameless Knight) – Tommy Prine offers his second release, a seven-song EP. This is the follow-up to his 2023 full-length release, "This Far South."
August 22, 2025
The Band Loula –
Sweet Southern Summer
(Warner Nashville) – The Georgia country duo, The Band Loula, make their debut with a six-song EP. Logan Simmons and Malachi Mills comprise the group. John Osborne, one-half of Brothers Osborne, produced.
August 29, 2025
Rodney Crowell –
Airline Highway
(New West) – Rodney Crowell's 10-song set was produced by Tyler Bryant and recorded and mixed by Trina Shoemaker in New Orleans. The album follows his 2023 Grammy Award-nominated "The Chicago Sessions." Ashley McBryde co-wrote and sings on "Taking Flight," Lukas Nelson co-wrote and sings the opener "Rainy Days in California," Blackberry Smoke guitarist Charlie Starr sings on "Heaven Can You Help," while Rebecca and Megan Lovell from Larkin Poe add harmonies and slide guitar throughout.
September 5, 2025
Lanie Gardner –
Faded Polaroids
(Broken Bow) – Lanie Gardner releases her sophomore album. The release contains 18 songs.
September 19, 2025
Chase McDaniel –
Lost Ones
(Big Machine Label Group) – Kentucky native Chase McDaniel releases his full-length debut. With all 12 songs co-written by McDaniel, the album shares painful aspects of his personal story, including his struggle with depression and the life-altering experience of losing his father to addiction. The disc was produced by Lindsay Rimes and recorded at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville.
September 26, 2025
Amanda Shires –
Nobody's Girl
(ATO) – Amanda Shires releases a 12-song disc produced by Lawrence Rothman. She recorded the album in Nashville and Los Angeles. The first single is "A Way It Goes."
October 3, 2025
Carter Faith –
Cherry Valley
(MCA) – Carter Faith makes her major label, full-length debut. The disc contains 15 songs. Tofer Brown produced the set, which includes the song "Sex, Drugs and Country Music," which is a throwback song with a tick tock beat and a Tammy Wynette feel.
Recent CD Releases
June 27, 2025
Tyler Booth –
Downtown
(Self-released) – Tyler Booth released a six-song EP. Booth, who had been on Sony Nashville, blends classic country, bluegrass and Southern rock. With stripped-back production, the EP features two solo guitar-vocal tracks alongside mandolin-driven melodies that spotlight his Appalachian roots. The Kentucky native also covered "Freeborn Man."
Parker McCollum –
Parker McCollum
(Universal Nashville) – Parker McCollum releases his fifth studio disc. He had a hand in writing all but two of the songs. He co-wrote with Jon Randall, Randy Rogers, Lori McKenna, Randy Montana, Liz Rose, Natalie Hemby and Monty Criswell.
Cole Swindell –
Spanish Moss
(Warner) – Cole Swindell releases his fifth studio album. The release includes his new radio single "We Can Always Move On," the album's debut number one single "Forever To Me," written about his then fiance (now wife) as well as the digital-only releases of "Dale, Jr.," "Bottom Of It," "Dirty Dancing," "Spanish Moss," "Kill A Prayer" and "One Day."
June 20, 2025
Lukas Nelson –
American Romance
(Sony Music Nashville) – After a long career with his band, Promise of the Real, with the band on hiatus, Lukas Nelson. releases huis solo debut. Sierra Ferrell and Stephen Wilson Jr. help out on the Shooter Jennings-produced disc.
June 6, 2025
Rascal Flatts –
Life is a Highway: Refueled Duets
(Big Machine Label Group) – Rascal Flatts returns after a hiatus for an album of duets with the likes of the Jonas Brothers, Carly Pearce, Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean.
Waylon Wyatt –
Out of the Blue
(Music Soup/Darkroom Records) – Waylon Wyatt releases his second EP, which contains six songs.
Mary Chapin Carpenter –
Personal History
(Lambent Light/Thirty Tiger) – Mary Chapin Carpenter's 17th album was produced by Bonny Light Horseman's Josh Kaufman and recorded live at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Bath, England. Across the 11 tracks, Carpenter presents a set of songs more autobiographical than previous works. This marks Carpenter's second release this year
May 30, 2025
Dylan Scott –
Easy Does It
(Curb) – Dylan Scott releases his third studio album, featuring 11 songs. The songs include his number one single "This Town's Been Too Good To Us."
The Shootouts –
Switchback
(Transoceanic Records) – The Shootouts return with a bunch of guests including Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell, Lindsay Lou, Sam Bush, Logan Ledger and Mickey Raphael.
May 23, 2025
The SteelDrivers –
Outrun
(Sun) – The SteelDrivers celebrate their 20th anniversary with the disc which features its fourth lead vocalist, Matt Dame.
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