\n\tThis week, Carly Pearce gets vulnerable about the sacrifices often required to chase the dream of being in the spotlight, while Kashus Culpepper returns with smoldering track about heartbreak and denial. Also issuing new songs this week are Muscadine Bloodline, Waylon Wyatt, Owen Riegling and bluegrass artist Irene Kelley.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n \t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\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\tCarly Pearce, \u201cDream Come True\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIn her latest, Grammy Award and CMA Awards winner Pearce lays bare the deep sacrifices that have been required for her to chase her dreams in music, from missing a friend\u2019s wedding due to being on the road, to seeing personal life splashed across the headlines. \u201cNobody tells you everything you\u2019re gonna lose\/ Tryin\u2019 to make the dream come true,\u201d she sings softly, putting her heart and vulnerability at the fore on this unfiltered, introspective track. She wraps the song with devastating final lines about about not seeing her mother as often as her parent grows older, and grapples with the temptation to quit music, though quickly remembering how hard not only she, but her parents, have worked for her to have the career she has. Pearce proves yet again why she\u2019s an artist unafraid of writing deep and etching songs that cut to the core.<\/p>\n \n\tKashus Culpepper, \u201cIn Her Eyes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tSince breaking through and gaining acclaim with songs such as \u201cAfter Me?\u201d and \u201cBelieve,\u201d Culpepper follows with this eruption of raging soulfulness, as he sings of the tugging truth that a potential lover, whose \u201chair shined like sin\u201d and who is as deceptive as she is tempting. \u201cIn Her Eyes\u201d froths and surges into a percussion and electric guitar-ripped freefall, commandeered by Culpepper\u2019s soul-scraping, angst-fueled rasp of a voice. Culpepper wrote \u201cIn Her Eyes\u201d with Oscar Charles and Brent Cobb, and the song is part of Culpepper\u2019s upcoming project Act I<\/em>, out in January 2026.<\/p>\n \n\tMuscadine Bloodline, \u201cPeter From Picayune\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tDuo Muscadine Bloodline delivers its second album of 2025 with Longleaf Lo-Fi<\/em>, veering from the grizzled rock and full-bodied sound of \u2026And What Was Left Behind<\/em> and offering up a scaled-back, low-production project that feels tailor-made for the season. Among the standouts is an official studio version of a song the duo first previewed for fans a few years ago. The duo\u2019s Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton are heartfelt and unhurried as they unfurl a vivid tale of South Mississippi native Peter, a young man who enlists in the Marines to serve his country when he doesn\u2019t have enough money to enroll in college. They chronicle his deployment overseas and his determination in the heat of battle, with the acoustic-centered production lending extra somberness to lines such as \u201cThat boy wouldn\u2019t want a welcome home parade\/ Wouldn\u2019t wanna talk about it anyway,\u201d as the song stands as a stellar, humble tribute to military members and their sacrifices.<\/p>\n \n\tWaylon Wyatt, \u201cFrostbite\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tIn his latest, Arkansas native Wyatt delivers a haunting performance, with his voice threading through somber fiddle, organ and guitar. He draws a parallel between the bitter ache of heartbreak and loneliness and the stark, frozen quiet of deep winter. \u201cI\u2019ve been yearning for some burning back in my life\/ But it seems to me to be more like frostbite,\u201d he sings, as he distills the yearning for love and sting of loss into piercing lyrics.<\/p>\n \n\tOwen Riegling, \u201cPhone Call From Home\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tCanadian country singer Riegling has been piling up the career milestones this year, signing<\/a> with Big Loud, and seeing his album Bruce County (From the Beginning)<\/em> named<\/a> album of the year at the Canadian Country Music Awards. He follows his breakthrough with songs such as \u201cTaillight This Town\u201d with this slice of polished, swaggering country-rock, which conveys feelings of chasing dreams through long flights far from home, and piling up bleary-eyed late nights and long days \u2014 but still knowing that that familiar feeling of home is there on the other end of the line. Here, Riegling offers more evidence why his smooth vocals and vibrant songwriting are making him an artist on the cusp of wider acclaim.<\/p>\n \n\tIrene Kelley feat. Kruger Brothers, \u201cCoal Dust\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\tKelley teams with The Kruger Brothers as she pays homage to her grandparents\u2019 story of being hardworking immigrants seeking to build a new life in the United States, and particularly her grandfather\u2019s journey of working in the unforgiving coal mines in order to provide for his family. Kelley\u2019s warm, conversational singing style is astutely complemented by warm guitar, banjo and mandolin. Kelley wrote this tender tribute with Bobby Starnes.<\/p>\n
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