5 Must-Hear New Country Songs: Dasha, HARDY, Chase Rice & More

This week, Dasha previews her upcoming EP Anna with a tender way chronicling the dilatory process of making a caller municipality consciousness similar home. HARDY besides previews his upcoming medium Country! Country! with a tender way that looks astatine beingness from the position of man’s champion friend. Meanwhile, bluegrass radical The Infamous Stringdusters connection up a country-tilted caller track, portion Chase Rice brings a rustic, introspective caller song, and Lauren Watkins and John Morgan squad up for a caller collaboration.

Check retired each of these and much in Billboard‘s roundup of immoderate of the champion country, bluegrass and/or Americana songs of the week below.

Dasha, “Train”

“Austin” hitmaker Dasha trades boot-stompin’ rhythms for tender introspection connected her latest song. Elevated by slashes of pedal alloy and dobro, “Train” depicts the dilatory accumulation of moments that beryllium one’s modulation from alien successful a caller municipality to resident, erstwhile the caller abstraction begins to consciousness much familiar. The dependable of a bid that was erstwhile jarring becomes inheritance noise, pictures hung connected a partition makes a caller spot consciousness cozy and newly-forged friendships statesman to springiness a consciousness of community. “You larn the turns and clip the lights/ The municipality you didn’t admit becomes a small much similar home,” she sings, portion her tender, conversational vocal benignant proves a cleanable acceptable for the song’s tender sentiments. “Train” marks singer-songwriter Dasha’s archetypal extracurricular cut, and is simply a solo constitute from Kyle Sturrock. Her EP Anna releases Oct. 10.

HARDY, “Dog Years”

HARDY erstwhile again proves wherefore he’s 1 of state music’s astir talented tunesmiths connected his caller release. The decade-old opus underscores his crisp songwriting instincts, adjacent successful his formative years arsenic a writer successful Nashville. Written from the position of a faithful canine, the opus finds the pooch astatine the extremity of it’s life, recalling the time helium was rescued from the broadside of the road, and vividly detailing the scores of memories made since that time and highlighting the enslaved betwixt humans and their pets. Though the song’s premise has imaginable to veer into overly-sentimental sappiness, the song’s affluent portrayal of cardinal memories keeps it feeling similar a susceptible but respectful tribute. This solo constitute from HARDY previews his upcoming medium Country! Country!, retired Friday (Sept. 26).

Chase Rice, “Good Sid...