Ballerini, Wall, Muscadine Bloodline, Gill drop new music

Canadian singer Colter Wall returns to action with "Memories and Empties" on La Honda Records/RCA Records. Wall recorded the music at Studio A in Nashville. Wall produced with Pat Lyons and was supported by his backing band, Scary Prairie Boys. Wall wrote 9 of the 10 songs. He also cut Ian Tyson's ""Summer Wages."

Muscadine Bloodline – the Alabama duo of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton - will release their second new album of 2025 , "Longleaf Lo-fi" on Stancaster Music/Thirty Tigers. The new album follows the April release of "...And What Was Left Behind" a companion to the duo's 2024 release "The Coastal Plain."

Vince Gill releases his second EP this fall with "Secondhand Smoke" on MCA. "March On March On" is a soulful civil rights anthem featuring The War & Treaty. Gill co-wrote "Hill People" with Ashley McBryde. This is the second release in a year-long monthly EP series called "50 Years From Home," which celebrates his 50 years in the music business. The first EP in the series, "I Gave You Everything I Had," was released on Oct. 17.

Kaitlin Butts makes her label debut with "Yeehaw Sessions" on Republic Records. Butts offered covers of "Red Wine Supernova" by Chappell Roan, "Sin Wagon" by The Chicks," "Tulsa Time" by Don Williams, as well as "The Middle." from Jimmy Eat World plus a new recording of her own "You Ain't Gotta Die (To Be Dead to Me)," Last year, Butts released her album "Roadrunner!."

Cameron Whitcomb's The Hard Way (Deluxe) is an expanded edition of his debut album, "The Hard Way" via Atlantic Records. Whitcomb added five tracks, including "End of the Morning," a previously unheard collaboration with indie folk artist Evan Honer.

Big Loud / Back Blocks Music's Ashley Cooke releases a nine-song EP, "ace." That was Cooke's nickname growing up. The project features five new songs including "the hell you are," which has been getting airplay. Cooke originally was going to only release the song "baby blue," but opted for the nine songs. Dann Huff produced the set.

Luke Bryan got in the holiday spirit with "Luke Bryan Christmas." The three-song EP features a collaboration with Ella Langley, "Winter Wonderland." This is the first Christmas EP of Luke's career, having released singles in 2008, "Run Run Rudolph," and "O Holy Night" in 2017. Those songs also are on the EP.

Town Mountain is out with "Live From Drop of Sun" via New West Records. The four-song EP was recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, N.C. and follows the band's "Dance Me Down Easy: The Woodstock Sessions" EP, as well as their 2022 New West Records debut "Lines in the Levee."

Jeff Bates returns with "Don't Hold Me To It" on Tall Grass Records. Bates has enjoyed three hits: "The Love Song" (his highest, at number ), "I Wanna Make You Cry" at 23, and "Long, Slow Kisses" at 17.The Mississippi native has not released an album in eight years.