With a new year around the corner, it’s time for some new sounds in country music. Here are Rolling Stone‘s picks for the 10 new country artists you need to know this month:
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- Nick Wayne. Sounds like: Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton stuck in an escape room with Jeff Buckley.
- Craig Brown Band. Sounds like: Dive bar-ready insurgent country and ragged, punk-fueled folk-rock with witty lyrical musings about the mundane.
- Cashavelly Morrison. Sounds like: The atmospheric soundtrack to haunting, late-night fever dreams about being on the business end of a murder ballad.
- Carlton Anderson. Sounds like: Homegrown Nineties-era neo-traditionalism crafted for the modern audience.
- Martha Spencer. Sounds like: Appalachian music, through and through, with all the dynamism of a string band and the longing of a lovelorn country song.
- Vera Sola. Sounds like: Brooding, ethereal indie-folk with subtle Western influences and a sharp sense of social consciousness.
- Kim Lenz. Sounds like: Masterful rockabilly with modern influences and sonic touchstones that span the best of American roots music.
- Rachel Baiman. Sounds like: Woody Guthrie’s social consciousness, Alison Krauss’s fiddle, and Emmylou Harris’s vocal shimmer sharing a brown-bag singalong around a hobo fire.
- Stephen Kellogg. Sounds like: A golden hour snapshot of a shared road trip with your favorite person beside you.
- Senora May. Sounds like: A mountain music version of Feist’s “Gatekeeper” with the occasional flute.
