6 Must-Hear New Country Songs: Zac Brown Band, Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, Shaboozey & More

This week’s harvest of caller songs features Zac Brown Band teaming with Dolly Parton for an uplifting caller track. Meanwhile, Brandi Carlile previews her upcoming medium with the caller anthem “Returning To Myself.” Collabs proceed arsenic Shaboozey teams with Stephen Wilson Jr. for a brooding, portion NEEDTOBREATHE joins forces with The Red Clay Strays connected a compelling opus of redemption and grace.

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.

Zac Brown Band feat. Dolly Parton, “Butterfly”

Parton has agelong proven she’s exemplary astatine teaming with artists for inspiring collaborations, from her Brad Paisley collab “When I Get Where I’m Going,” to her Grammy-winning collabs with For King & Country and Zach Williams. Here, she teams with Zac Brown Band for an uplifting, soulful collaboration, with tightly-woven harmonies and lush strings, portion Parton’s shimmering soprano is simply a cleanable foil for Brown’s grainy, almighty voice. “You don’t person to signifier thing that they preach,” they sing, coming unneurotic connected a opus astir accepting one’s aforesaid and being unafraid to interruption escaped from unhealthy situations successful a quest for peace.

Brandi Carlile, “Returning to Myself”

Carlile, an 11-time Grammy winner, previews her archetypal solo medium successful 4 years, with this gorgeous rubric track. “Returning to Myself” ponders the benefits and costs of shifting from collaboration to self-focused efforts. “Oh, what an casual mode to be/ Only kneeling astatine the altar of the large and mighty me,” Carlile sings, considering the heightened affectional merits of loving and helping those astir oneself, but besides the essentialness of prioritizing oneself. Along the way, it seems she finds that the 2 whitethorn not beryllium mutually exclusive, arsenic she sings, “Returning to myself is conscionable returning maine to you.” Carlile has spent the past fewer years arsenic a cardinal collaborator with artists including Joni Mitchell, Tanya Tucker and Elton John. Returning To Myself is retired Oct. 24 via Interscope Records and Lost Highway.

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