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🥃 Returning September 24-27, 2026

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Chris Stapleton

American songwriter, singer, producer, and guitarist Chris Stapleton has had a long journey in the music industry. His work is considered a return to the pure art that country music once was: gritty, soulful, and blues-tinged storytelling in musical form...

The Red Clay Strays

Hailing from Mobile, AL, The Red Clay Strays are one of music’s fastest-rising bands and poised for a huge breakout this year. The group is currently having a massive moment with their single, “Wondering Why,” which has garnered over 75 million streams to date, spent a week at # 1 on Spotify’s Viral 50 USA Playlist and is currently #1 on the Americana Singles chart for the sixth-consecutive week. The song is also charting on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 as well as Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, AAA chart and Hot Country Songs chart, and continuing to gain support across platforms. “Wondering Why” is from the band’s album, Moment of Truth, which is currently #2 on the Americana Albums Chart and is filled with their eclectic rock-n-roll sound. Of the record, Billboard praises, “Lead singer Coleman’s gruff, impassioned vocal shines here as always, bolstered by the group’s exemplary musicianship.” Known for their electric live shows, the band will continue to tour through this fall with sold-out shows across the country, including their three-night headline debut at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in September, all three nights of which sold-out within just hours. The Red

JESSIE MURPH

THAT AIN'T NO MAN THAT'S THE DEVIL. MY DEBUT ALBUM.

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Jason Isbell And the 400 Unit

Charley Crockett

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Maddox Batson

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Cameron Whitcomb

One of the most captivating new songwriters of his generation, Cameron Whitcomb turns the most candid details of his real-life experience into songs with a strangely exhilarating power. Recently named to coveted lists including both Spotify and Amazon Music’s 2025 Artists To Watch and featured globally on the cover of Apple Music’s Today Country, the 21-year-old musician earned major acclaim with last year’s Quitter EP, a boldly autobiographical collection partly inspired by his journey in overcoming addiction with its standout soul-searching title track, and his spellbinding follow-up single, “Medusa” (both hits on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100). As he launches into his most dynamic chapter to date, Whitcomb now shares a larger-than-life single called “Hundred Mile High”: a breakneck-paced anthem that brings a frenetic new energy to his wildly colorful yet deeply lived-in storytelling.

Hailing from British Columbia’s Vancouver Island, Whitcomb left home at age 17 and got a job working on a pipeline, later spending much of his downtime singing karaoke and posting covers on Reddit. When an American Idol executive took note of his undeniable vocal talent, he landed a spot on the show’s 20th season and emerged as a top 20 finalist, then immersed himself in learning to write songs while deep in the process of getting sober. After making his label debut with “Rocking Chair” (a spring 2024 release that amassed over 40 million combined views across socials prior to its premiere), Whitcomb took off on a fast ascent that soon found him embarking on his first-ever headline run, the sold-out Quitter Tour. Along with gearing up for the Hundred Mile High Tour—his biggest headline run to date, including stops at iconic venues like New York City’s Bowery Ballroom—he’s now at work on more new music spotlighting the raw emotional honesty of his one-of-a-kind songwriting.

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Noah Cyrus

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Squeeze

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Durand Jones & the Indications

The Infamous Stringdusters

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Avery Anna

Attracting attention from esteemed media outlets like Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Songwriter, and more, exciting newcomer Avery Anna continues to build “one hell of a brand for herself” (OutKick). In 2025, she released her sophomore album, let go letters, comprising songs all inspired by real-life situations shared by her fans via the “Let Go Letters.” Named one of Billboard’s “50 Best Albums of 2025,” Avery took inspiration from her fans experiences to“craft detailed, thoughtful and ultimately encouraging songs that hold up a mirror to those who have struggled with issues of depression, body image, addiction, domestic violence and more” (Billboard). The year also saw her reach Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with Sam Barber for their Platinum-certified, viral duet “Indigo,” which they performed together onThe Kelly Clarkson Show. She has earned Artist To Watch nods from Amazon Music, Apple Music, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, MusicRow, and CMT and has performed for national TV audiences on the 2023 CMT Music Awards where she was nominated for Breakthrough Artist of the Year, before making her morning TV debut on NBC’s TODAY. Having garnered more than 1 billion global streams to date, the Arizona native has quickly become an in-demand touring artist and spent the summer on the road opening for Luke Bryan’s Country Song Came On Tour and Brad Paisley’s Truck Still Works World Tour. She also wrapped up her nearly sold-out headlining Let Go Letters Tour this winter and will kick off her Girl Of Constant Sorrow Tour in March.

Kaitlin Butts

Way out on the Western plains, you can see storms make their way across the horizon. Lightning strikes brighten darkened masses of fearsome clouds as they roll on down the line. They sway and swirl giving the promise of rain. They thunder and clap with threats of hail or worse.Kaitlin Butts is a thunderstorm. A tornado warning. The siren wail of a small town’s caution system still in use. Behind her flowing locks of auburn hair, Oklahoma twang, and wry grin, grows a demanding voice and equally devastating storyteller. This high-rising Oklahoma native is steadily blooming into a quick-witted writer whohas the ability to pick the right details to make a song and story believable and real. She shifts between infectious Cosmic Cowgirl flare with lush desert-swept pastels, desired & heartfelt tearjerkers, and hard-bitten & calloused murder ballads. Through them all, she’s exhibits a knack for character and a nose for narrative. They come in like a summer shower patting down the dust. Other times, Butts is torrential downpour wreaking havoc.

Bryan Martin

With a blue-collar, everyday working-class background, *Bryan Martin* lives the stories he writes. Those real-life emotions and experiences expressed in song unquestionably resonate with audiences because the two are one and the same. His sophomore full-length album, *Self Inflicted Scars*, is set for an *April 29* release on *Average Joes Entertainment*.

“Songwriting has always just been a hobby – a passion,” *says Bryan* who is celebrating the success of one of the album’s singles, *“Beauty In The Struggle,”* which went *viral on TikTok* — with *nearly two million views* to date and *over 13 million streams* on Spotify alone. The song quickly hit the radar of music industry executives and tastemakers alike. “I started this for fun, but now I’m doing what I love for a living,” *Bryan adds*.

“It’s something I don’t think I could have ever dreamed of,” *says Bryan* about the song’s success. “I was at my lowest when I wrote it and I think somehow the pain I was feeling found its way into the listeners ears. Hopefully it healed them in the same way it healed me. It’s been life changing and overwhelming at times…but I couldn’t be more grateful to be finally catching a dream that was always just out of reach.”

From the *oil fields in Louisiana* where he was a “roughneck” on the rigs, to pursuing his hobby of writing songs and learning to play guitar, this self-taught musician/songwriter is quickly becoming recognized as one of country music’s emerging new talents.

“*Self Inflicted Scars* — just the name may send you wandering, as it should,” *says Bryan* about the title of this new 12-song collection. “I’ve seen the deepest, darkest days and every time I’ve hit rock bottom I learned more about myself and life…mainly that I had no one else to blame but me, hence ‘Self Inflicted Scars.’ Through the album you’ll go on the same roller coaster I’ve been on; moving through love, heartbreak, self-destruction and redemption.”

Music was part of Bryan’s upbringing from an early age. His mother — who sang with such traditional country artists as Faron Young, Allison Krauss, and David Houston — recognized his talent at age six. By the time he was eight, Bryan started singing at local festivals and fairs. As a teenager in high school, he stepped away from music to focus on working after school and summer jobs. He’d write songs on the side “for fun.”

Influenced by those traditional country music artists that he grew up listening to, Martin honed his songwriting and performance skills through the years. As a songwriter, his diverse catalog of songs numbers over 3,000 ranging from traditional country and southern rock to outlaw country and country gospel.

Martin hopes to be the greatest that he can be with the talent that he’s been given and strives to work harder than the next guy. He lives by the best advice he ever received – “Don’t let your head outrun your feet… follow your heart and stay true to your roots.”

Rattlesnake Milk

Rattlesnake Milk from the southern plains of Texas is the musical truth. There is every single other artist and band in American music, and then there is Rattlesnake Milk. They are more country than all the other shit kicking bands out there darkening the stoops of the honky tonks. They are more punk than all the pungent-smelling tour vans full of spiked hair and mescaline criss-crossing the fruited plain. They are more surf, mod, and psyc than all the hipster bands strewn between Echo Park and Brooklyn. They are Rattlesnake Milk. - Trigger, Saving Country Music.

Buffalo Traffic Jam

Buffalo Traffic Jam is a folk band born in the heart of Bozeman, Montana, where its members, Frankie Cassidy and Nathan Ross, first crossed paths as students at Montana State University. United by a love for storytelling and the raw beauty of acoustic sound, they began crafting music that evokes wide-open landscapes and the emotions that live quietly beneath the surface of everyday life. The result was a self-titled debut ep followed by singles “Rescue Me” and “Forgot Your Roots;” the latter of which saw the band gain their first bit of online momentum and led to the signing of their very first record deal with Arista Records.

With rich harmonies, stripped-down instrumentation, and vocals that make you feel—whether it's longing, joy, or that bittersweet in-between—Buffalo Traffic Jam creates songs that linger long after the last chord fades. Their music is as much about atmosphere as it is about melody, rooted in folk traditions but carried forward by a modern emotional edge.

2025 has seen the release of two more singles, “Strangers Now” and “Milestone” and will see the band make their festival debuts at both Under the Big Sky and Red West Festival before heading out on tour with rising country singer-songwriter Dylan Gossett. From dorm room jam sessions to packed local venues, Buffalo Traffic Jam stays true to their roots—authenticity, friendship, and the natural beauty that first brought them together in Montana.

Matt Hansen

Atlus

Just a dude that drinks beer and watches Netflix

Levi Turner

Jason Scott & The High Heat

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Nathan Bess

The Fretliners

New EP Three of a Kind AVAILABLE NOW!

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