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\n\tThis week, Dasha<\/a> previews her upcoming EP Anna<\/em> with a tender track chronicling the slow process of making a new town feel like home. HARDY<\/a> also previews his upcoming album Country! Country! <\/em>with a tender track that looks at life from the perspective of man\u2019s best friend. Meanwhile, bluegrass group The Infamous Stringdusters offer up a country-tilted new track, while Chase Rice <\/a>brings a rustic, introspective new song, and Lauren Watkins and John Morgan team up for a new collaboration.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tExplore\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n See latest videos, charts and news<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \n\tCheck out all of these and more in\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u2018s roundup of some of the best country, bluegrass and\/or Americana songs of the week below.<\/p>\n \n\tDasha, \u201cTrain\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAustin\u201d hitmaker Dasha trades boot-stompin\u2019 rhythms for tender introspection on her latest song. Elevated by slashes of pedal steel and dobro, \u201cTrain\u201d depicts the slow accumulation of moments that prove one\u2019s transition from stranger in a new town to resident, when the new space begins to feel more familiar. The sound of a train that was once jarring becomes background noise, pictures hung on a wall makes a new place feel cozy and newly-forged friendships begin to give a sense of community. \u201cYou learn the turns and time the lights\/ The town you didn\u2019t recognize becomes a little more like home,\u201d she sings, while her tender, conversational vocal style proves a perfect fit for the song\u2019s tender sentiments. \u201cTrain\u201d marks singer-songwriter Dasha\u2019s first outside cut, and is a solo write from Kyle Sturrock. Her EP Anna<\/em> releases Oct. 10.<\/p>\n \n\tHARDY, \u201cDog Years\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tHARDY once again proves why he\u2019s one of country music\u2019s most talented tunesmiths on his new release. The decade-old song underscores his sharp songwriting instincts, even in his formative years as a writer in Nashville. Written from the perspective of a faithful canine, the song finds the pooch at the end of it\u2019s life, recalling the day he was rescued from the side of the road, and vividly detailing the scores of memories made since that day and highlighting the bond between humans and their pets. Though the song\u2019s premise has potential to veer into overly-sentimental sappiness, the song\u2019s rich portrayal of key memories keeps it feeling like a vulnerable but respectful tribute. This solo write from HARDY previews his upcoming album Country! Country!<\/em>, out Friday (Sept. 26).<\/p>\n \n\tChase Rice, \u201cGood Side of Gettin\u2019 Older\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tOver the past several years, Chase Rice has left his bro-country past behind him and reinvented himself with a sound that leans more heavily on rustic instrumentals and vulnerable, oftentimes poetic lyrics. He continues that run on his new project, the stripped-back Eldora<\/em>. This song from the project, \u201cGood Side of Gettin\u2019 Older,\u201d written by Rice, Oscar Charles and Wyatt McCubbin, encapsulates the inevitability of time\u2019s passage, but frames it not with nostalgia, but with a resolve to embrace what lies ahead. \u201cLife has got me writing different songs\/ And time\u2019s got me missing things before they\u2019re gone,\u201d he sings. Like the rest of the project, \u201cGood Side\u201d is woven with captivating lyricism and heightened by Rice\u2019s warm vocal tone.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Infamous Stringdusters, \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tGrammy-winning band The Infamous Stringdusters, known for their latticework of country, bluegrass and folk sounds, lean into more heavily into the country sphere on their new single, while still retaining the group\u2019s superb musicianship and intricate arrangements. Written by the Dusters and Larry Keel, the song\u2019s vulnerable lyrics are boosted in particular by banjoist Chris Pandolfi and dobro player Andy Hall, who serve up blistering cascades of banjo and dobro, alongside bandmates Travis Book (double bass), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle) and Andy Falco (guitar). The Infamous Stringdusters will release their new album, 20\/20<\/em>, on Jan. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n \n\tLauren Watkins and John Morgan, \u201cSlippery Slope\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tLauren Watkins and John Morgan team up for this barroom weeper, as they look at the \u201cslippery slope\u201d of how a single drink and the smokey haze of a favored local dive bar is continually the catalyst to a relational backslide in a complex, on-again, off-again romance. Their lilting voices wrap gloriously around lines such as \u201cWhy can\u2019t a round just be one round\/ When we end up in the same bar?\u201d Watkins wrote this track with Will Bundy, Mark Trussell and Lydia Vaughan. \u201cSlippery Slope\u201d is on Watkins\u2019s upcoming project In A Perfect World<\/em>, out Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.billboard.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, Dasha previews her upcoming EP Anna with a tender track chronicling the slow process of making a new town feel like home. HARDY also previews his upcoming album Country! Country! with a tender track that looks at life from the perspective of man\u2019s best friend. 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