This week, we savor a razor-sharp new anthem from Maggie Antone, while Lainey Wilson co-writer Trannie Anderson offers up a preview to her upcoming 2026 project.
Elsewhere, Corey Kent teams with Koe Wetzel for an unyielding, rock-fueled anthem, while The Jack Wharff Band give an engaging contribution to music for the Landman series. Newcomer Tristan Trincado gives a stripped-back love song.
Maggie Antone, “The Devil’s Not In Hell”
Maggie Antone follows her 2024 album Rhinestoned with this venom-filled takedown, as she delivers a character assassination of a self-centered man who thinks he everyone’s dream. “Meet one, you swear you’ve met ’em all,” Antone sings, her vocals filled with vigor and spitfire, as she calls out the guy’s womanizing ways, before adding, “All his exes are crazy/ It’s not his fault (it’s never his fault),” and exposing the narcissist’s pitfalls. Masterfully vicious yet with playful undertones, this makes for a scorching anthem.
Trannie Anderson, “Girl With Her Guard Up”
Trannie Anderson is known as a premier songwriter on hits including Lainey Wilson’s “Whirlwind” and Cole Swindell’s “3 Feet Tall,” but she’s also a performer in her own right. She previews her upcoming 2026 album Heart Like a Songwriter with this ballad about a woman explaining to a potential lover that if he perceives her as “barbed wire and walls up/ it’s because love’s only poured me the hard stuff.” Introspective, nuanced and decidedly country.
The Jack Wharff Band, “No Way Out”
The group’s contribution to season 2 of the series Landman‘s soundtrack is a bluesy, churning track, as they sing about staying true to who they are, and offering a rebuff to “some city boy trying to raise his voice/ Telling me you gotta pay your dues.” This simmering, earthy track is sure to be a fan favorite.
Corey Kent and Koe Wetzel, “Rocky Mountain Low”
Corey Kent and Koe Wetzel team up for this seething, rock/country intertwining about a post-heartbreak, emotional unraveling. Written by Kent alongside Austin Goodloe, Michael Tyler and Thomas Archer, “Rocky Mountain Low” sets the scene as gritty guitars swirl and encircle the two singers’ complementary vocals, as each builds upon the other as they distill betrayal and anger into lines such as “It’s up in smoke/ But I ain’t high.” A sterling vocal pairing.
Tristan Trincado, “If I Had a Dime”
Supple fiddlework introduces this mid-tempo track, where Colorado native Trincado wraps his husky vocal around an earnest declaration of romance and lasting love. The song’s sparse instrumentation just heightens the song’s off-the-cuff feel.
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