The Creekers, Buzzworthy Roots Band, Sign With Warner Music Nashville / Warner Records

Kentucky bluegrass/country set The Creekers, known for their breakthrough deed “Tennessee,” has signed with Warner Music Nashville/Warner Records, Billboard tin exclusively reveal.

The six-member radical includes Anna Blanton (fiddle), Ashton Bowling (cajon), Jagger Bowling (bass/vocals), Allen Hacker (vocals/rhythm guitar), Tanner Horton (vocals/lead guitar) and Scott Sutton (banjo/vocals). The radical formed successful the Eastern ember tract portion of Kentucky, successful Leslie County, located nether an hr distant from the famed ember mining country of Harlan, Kentucky that inspired the Darrell Scott-written, Patty Loveless-recorded classic, “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive.”

The Creekers released their archetypal album, the genre-melding Pour Me In The Creek successful 2024 and followed with 2025’s River Rat EP, which included “Tennessee,” the soulful bluegrass opus that roseate to the apical 5 connected Spotify’s Viral 50 illustration this summer.

The song’s bluegrass underpinnings, topped with Hacker’s burly voice, person led immoderate fans to comparison the group’s dependable to the Chris Stapleton-led, aboriginal iteration of bluegrass radical The SteelDrivers. Other songs connected The Creekers’ River Rat EP see “Lay You Down,” “Hyden, KY” and “Alex’s Song.”

Warner Music Nashville is location to artists including Kenny Chesney, Dan+Shay, Bailey Zimmerman, Braxton Keith, Cody Johnson, William Beckmann and Cole Swindell. Warner Records is location to artists including Zach Bryan, Billy Strings, Brandy Clark and Maddox Batson.

The signing comes arsenic bluegrass, Americana and different roots-oriented euphony styles person surged successful caller years, with the occurrence of artists including Strings, Bryan, Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson and more. Strings’s astir caller medium Highway Prayers debuted astatine No. 1 connected Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales Chart, marking the archetypal bluegrass medium successful 22 years to apical the chart, since the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack spent 2 weeks atop the illustration successful 2002 (and ruled the Bluegrass Albums illustration for 15 weeks).

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