A Miami native of Cuban descent, he declared his passion for fusing traditions with the single and mixtape “Banjos And Bongos.” His aim is to “fill a niche that country music hasn’t seen yet.” www.sammyarriaga.com

Blane earned his stripes as a singer in his native Arkansas before coming to Nashville where he’s performed and written with the elite of country music. His own breakout was the beloved wedding song “Promise To Love Her.”
www.blanehoward.com

Jillian Cardarelli has been performing since she was 4 years old. The All-American singer-songwriter took the top spot in Rolling Stone’s top 10 list of New Country Artists You Need to Know in 2018, and has gone on to tour alongside Lonestar, Jake Owen, Jana Kramer and Easton Corbin. With such an...

The pride of tiny Byrdstown, TN earned a big bluegrass record deal while still in high school. Four albums and thousands of miles later, she’s one of acoustic music’s most awarded instrumentalists and admired songwriters and singers.
www.sierrahull.com

Country music singer-songwriter Moakler relocated to Nashville from Pittsburgh just over a decade ago and has since released 5 studio albums and co-written with the likes of Dierks Bentley, Jake Owen and Ben Rector. Billboard describes him as “a soulful mix of Seger and Springsteen with a music c...

From wholesome Nebraska roots, country singer-songwriter Lucas Hoge exudes a real warmth and authenticity. Whether it’s singing for American troops, writing TV soundtracks or performing alongside George Jones, Rascal Flatts, Rodney Atkins, Craig Morgan and many more, music is clearly the right pa...

Lissa Lauria & Isaac Fox hail from New York and Boston respectively. They have deep experience in the music business from writing and performing worldwide to music for film. Together, they offer a novel take on Americana rock.
www.foxandlauria.com

Sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell launched as a youthful bluegrass duo, but their passion for full-bodied, Southern-tinged rock and roll led to a rebrand, a bracing electric blues sound, plus exquisite songwriting full of humor and humanity.
www.larkinpoe.com

Legend Dan Tyminski is a bluegrass composer, singer and multi instrumentalist, with 14 Grammys to his name. Not only has he been a member of Alison Krauss’s Union Station since 1994, Tyminski has released 3 solo albums and collaborated with the likes of Martina McBride, Brad Paisley and Dolly Par...

Kelsey is in the vanguard of a new wave of hard core traditional country music emerging out of heartland Kentucky. Her true-life lyrics and blue voice were noticed - and signed to a record deal - by the late great John Prine.
www.kelseywaldon.com

Indiana born singer-songwriter Canaan Smith moved to Nashville to pursue his country music career in 2009. Breaking out in 2014 with the hit single, ‘Love You Like That’, Smith has gone on to be the flagship artist signed under Florida Georgia Line’s new label, Round Here Records. With a quintess...

Just 20 years young, this Florida native has proven savvy and poised beyond her years as she’s found her footing in Nashville’s elite songwriting and performing circles with a bright, affirming brand of pop country.
www.baileycallahan.com

Musician and author, Joe Bonsall has led the country/gospel group, The Oak Ridge Boys since 1973. Country Music Hall of Fame members, Bonsall, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden and Richard Sterban have sold 41 million records to date, and won multiple awards. Who were Bonsall’s inspirations? Find o...

For about ten years, Nashville’s Lilly Hiatt played locally and tried various approaches as she distinguished herself from her famous songwriting father John. But when she found it on 2017’s Trinity Lane, she broke out as a beloved Americana rocker.
www.lillyhiatt.com

Tony has had a monumental career as one of the most successful producers of Country music and Americana. From his beginnings as a pianist for the Stamps Quartet, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Presley and more, and with multiple awards to his name, Tony’s career has spanned more than 40 years and work wit...

Many of the big country music magazines and DJs have been naming this Texas native a rising star and an artist to watch. While she can’t be on the road fulfilling that promise right now, here’s the live show she’d be giving on stage, just for us.
https://abbyandersonmusic.com

South Carolina’s Marcus King grew up with a working musician dad and became a prodigy guitarist and singer. Even so, he’s led a resurgence of blues-based Southern rock and virtuoso guitar playing that exceeded expectations.
www.marcuskingband.com

Behind the blues persona of Whitey Johnson is the legendary songwriter Gary Nicholson, whose songs for artists like Delbert McClinton and Garth Brooks have spanned country, blues and soul.
www.whiteyjohnsonmusic.com

Maya stands out among singer songwriters for her clarity of tone and her carefully crafted song poems. She became known through her band The Stray Birds then went solo releasing two fine albums in two years.
www.mayadevitry.com

Country Rock soul searcher, and self confessed, “lone wolf”, Kip Moore’s sound is fueled by a vitality garnered from his travels all over the globe. Moore’s fourth studio album, ‘Wild World’ was released in May. Enjoy hearing a little more about Kip’s journey right here.

Michael Ray is a Florida-born singer songwriter, who, growing up, was inspired by listening to his Grandfather play the guitar. After harnessing his own classic style, his big break came in 2012 when he won reality TV show, ‘The Next: Fame is at Your Doorstep’, on which he was mentored by musicia...

Beth Nielsen Chapman started out in 1976 with the rock and pop group “Harmony” and has forged an expansive career, not only as a singer song-writer of her own material, but as a songwriter for numerous artists, including Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Bette Midler. What makes Chapman so speci...

Ruthie came from rural New York but her heart lives in a musical place out west, where the sea and the desert define the landscape. Her Americana is especially bright and melodic.
www.ruthiecollinsmusic.com

Ben formed the New Effect in 2017 after years playing and touring as a guitarist on the jam band circuit. You’ll appreciate his songwriting and the band’s outstanding musicianship.
www.bensparaco.com

Rob was a bluegrass band veteran and mega-award winner when he teamed up with younger hotshot Trey. Their dobro/guitar duo is one of the most important and astounding acts in acoustic music, from blues to bluegrass.
www.robandtrey.com

Charles, “Chip” Esten is an actor, singer and improviser. The Pittsburgh-born polymath is best known for his role as Deacon Claybourne on ABC/CMT’s ‘Nashville’ (2012-2018), which has since allowed him to focus on his own song-writing career. The shadow of Deacon aside, we were very fortunate to h...

This multi-faceted rock, blues, pop, country star has no one in any doubt that she is very special. Named Female Artist of the Year by the Association of Country Music in Alberta in 2015, Lindsay’s debut album ‘The Project’ reaching Billboard’s no.1 in the first week of its release in 2017. Canad...

Discovered in 2011, Paslay is a singer song-writer of his own material and has collaborated with the likes of Rascal Flatts, Amy Grant and Sheryl Crow. Eric is a classic country diamond, with an easy, soulful sound inspired by his own Texas roots and more. Here he is with a playlist of some of hi...

After two decades of work in fashion, the Nashville native has carved out a career as a successful TV host and correspondent for the E! Network, ABC Family, TV Guide Network and CMT, to name only a few. Alecia has justifiably earned her reputation as a knowledgeable, sincere and spirited personal...

After early success with the world-renowned hit, “Delta Dawn”(1972), Texas-born Tanya has gone on to become a Country veteran with a career spanning almost five decades. The momentum continues to build for Tanya after her 2019 Album ‘While I’m Livin’’ received two Grammy Awards (Best Country Albu...

Logan was a local country and bluegrass singer until a friend got his demo to super producer T Bone Burnett. With him, Logan made a big debut album with shades of Roy Orbison and Marty Robbins. Live from The Tracking Room.
www.loganledgermusic.com

Ashleigh is a folk music lifer from Colorado who plays bass, banjo and guitar and who’s contributed songs to the bluegrass recording community and the Nashville music scene where she lives.
www.ashleighcaudill.com

Mary’s personal and heartfelt sound falls in the tradition of Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith, which is to say a modern woman who updates country music’s core emotions with sensitive observation.
www.marybragg.com

Steve has lived a wild life that’s taken him from Southern California to Nashville, and along the way he’s written hit songs and entertained thousands with a song and storytelling style that’s half manic and half genius.
www.poltz.com

Seth has a silky voice and ideal southern groove. He’s based his career out of Austin, Nashville and New Orleans, and his music could well be described as a blend of all three places.
www.sethwalker.com

His uncle is B.B. King, but Phillip didn’t make a straight line for the blues. Instead he absorbed many influences coming of age in Chicago and now he calls his sound Dive Bar Soul.
www.phillip-michael.net

Jake, one of the first artists ever to go viral on YouTube, has reinvented the ukulele for the 21st century. There’s not a genre he can’t handle and he leaves audiences breathless. Here he’s live from The Tracking Room in Nashville.
www.jakeshimabukuro.com

Parker Forbes and Cole Shugart played around the Nashville underground DIY scene before joining forces as The Criticals in 2018. Their sexy echoes of the early Kinks and Rolling Stones have made them local rock and roll heroes and a band rising on the national scene.
www.thecriticalsofficial.com

Hard work and raw energy has propelled Samantha from clubs in her hometown of Kansas City, MO to headlining slots across North America. She’s a major new voice in blues rock and a killer guitarist who landed on the prestigious Rounder Records.
www.samanthafish.com

Phil is an established side musician who has worked with legends such as Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Keb Mo, Garth Brooks, John Scofield and Taj Mahal. His deep and thoughtful piano-driven music calls to mind Randy Newman, Dr. John and Mose Allison.
www.philmadeira.net

Leah joins the long lineage of distinctive country music stylists from rural Kentucky. Her voice brings the old south to mind, but her songs and style are cutting edge. Live from Ocean Way Studios.
www.soundcloud.com/leahblevinsmusic

Stephen has been the front man of an acclaimed Nashville rock band, a professional microbiologist and a songwriter whose had his work recorded by Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins and others. And he’s just getting started.
www.stephenwilsonjrmusic.com

From Southern California to East Nashville, the married duo of Zack and Caitlin have evolved a pulse-quickening sound that’s like folk music on steroids. Hard to believe it’s just two musicians, live from Ocean Way.
www.smoothhoundsmith.com

From bluegrass beginnings, Jim became one of his generation’s most respected songwriters and alt-country performers. He’s also a beloved personality, host of the Americana Awards, a SiriusXM radio show and more. Live from Ocean Way.
www.jimlauderdalemusic.com

Maggie Rose brings style and substance to her punchy country pop. The Maryland native has played Bonnaroo, CMA Fest, the Grand Ole Opry (50 times!) and now for us from Ocean Way Studios.
www.maggierosemusic.com

Jill got established as half of a beloved modern folk duo from Knoxville, TN before launching her acclaimed solo career. She offers songs from the candid and vulnerable album ‘Thirties.’
www.jillandrews.com

Casey started in music as a drummer, but he made the leap to the front of the stage as an insightful songwriter with a soulful voice. He’s part of the musical community surrounding modern blues man Keb’ Mo’.

Lillie Mae grew up on stage with a family band, playing Nashville’s downtown honky tonks. Then Jack White gave her opportunities as a fiddler, singer and recording artist. She’s a must-know breakout artist in Americana music.
www.lilliemaemusic.com

Music City veteran Kendell Marvel had so much success as a songwriter, he had to put his artist career on hold for years. Now this honky tonk rocker is playing songs off his Dan Auerbach produced album Solid Gold Sounds.
www.kendellmarvel.com

A star of British Americana, she’s pulled down two AMA UK award nominations. Recording in Nashville is familiar terrain though, having made her debut album here in 2012.
www.danninicholls.com

Jesse is a Canadian-born Nashvillian whose country music is mainstream enough to open a tour for Keith Urban but independent-minded and totally his own. Jesse performs from Ocean Way Studio in Nashville.
www.jesselabelle.com

Tommy Harden is a veteran Music Row studio musician in Nashville. He and wife Lorrie have written numerous songs for country stars. Now a passionate duo, their fans include Garth Brooks. Live from the famous Ocean Way Studio.
www.losthollowband.com

This English born songwriter and recording artist makes a particularly deep brand of pop music, and Lucie has fans across the US and Europe to show for it. Recorded at Yamaha in Franklin, TN.
www.luciesilvas.com

This blues/rock four-piece from Natchez, Mississippi claims influences spanning Wilson Pickett, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Soundgarden. They’ve come a long way since forming in 2017 but they’ll never leave the South. Live from Yamaha studios.
www.bishopgunn.com

Radio Canada flagged this native of British Columbia as one of the country’s top artists on the rise. Now Raquel’s in Nashville, killing it with her voice, her songs and her guitar chops. From the treehouse studio.
www.raquelcole.com

When they first met in a class at Belmont University, musical sparks flew, and a few years later the duo was contributing to the show Nashville. Sarah Zimmerman and Justin Davis perform in a gorgeous treehouse studio.
www.strikingmatches.com

Michael and Tanya Trotter met as solo artists and fell in love well before they joined forces as a duo. They quickly became the toast of Americana music for their blend of vocal power and on-stage love. From the Yamaha studio.
www.thewarandtreaty.com