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Amazon Music Sets Country Music Month Performances and New Releases for October 2026

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:32:41 +0000

Amazon Music has announced a month of country programming for October 2026, including new exclusive recordings, streamed performances, podcast episodes, and a virtual concert series for hospital patients and caregivers.

Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter Reunite on Previously Unheard “Same Old Blues”

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:27:41 +0000

Shooter Jennings has released a previously unheard recording of "Same Old Blues" featuring his parents, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. The track offers another preview of Diamonds, the second album Shooter has assembled from recordings found in Waylon's archives.

Chayce Beckham Releases Five-Song Old Fashioned EP

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:18:18 +0000

Chayce Beckham released Old Fashioned on September 25, 2026. The five-song EP includes the previously shared "Dirt Floor" and "Take Me Home," plus three more original tracks co-written by Beckham.

Brothers Osborne Release “Doors” Ahead of New Album Watertown

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:09:52 +0000

Brothers Osborne have shared "Doors," the latest preview of their fifth studio album, Watertown, due October 23, 2026, via MCA. The song is available now in a shorter version the duo calls a "SELLOUT EDIT."

Jordan Davis Releases “What Do I Do If You Don’t” as He Works on His Next Album

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:04:03 +0000

Jordan Davis has released "What Do I Do If You Don't," a new song about facing a future that no longer includes the person you expected to share it with. The track is available now as Davis writes and records his next studio project, which is expected in 2027.

Ella Langley Is Playing an Intimate Denver Show for SiriusXM – Here’s How To Tune In

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:09:50 +0000

Ella Langley is taking the stage at The Grizzly Rose in Denver on October 6 for SiriusXM’s Small Stage Series. If you can’t get into that room, you’ll still get a shot at the show: SiriusXM says the full performance will air on The Highway on October 9 at 8 p.m. ET, then be available in its app.

The announcement promises hits, fan favorites and songs from Dandelion. After following Ella’s music here at Country Music News Blog, I’m especially curious which songs she picks for a smaller venue. A song can hit differently when the singer is close enough to see the crowd’s faces.

Fans can enter for a chance at a pair of show tickets. If Denver isn’t in your backyard, there’s also a separate VIP trip entry. Check the eligibility rules and deadlines on each entry page before you throw your hat in.

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Morgan Wallen Is Officially Part of the Grand Theft Auto VI Soundtrack – Listen Now

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:19:28 +0000

Well, I certainly didn't have "Morgan Wallen becomes part of the Grand Theft Auto universe" on my 2026 country music bingo card, but here we are.

Atlantic Records and Rockstar Games officially announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album this morning, and right there alongside Travis Scott, Future, PinkPantheress, Keith Richards, Rauw Alejandro and a genuinely wild assortment of artists is one of the biggest names in country music: Morgan Wallen.

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Zach Bryan Is Back in the Studio, and His Latest Collaborators Could Make Things Very Interesting

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:20:51 +0000

Just when you think you have Zach Bryan‘s next move figured out, the man wanders into a recording studio with Lana Del Rey and then pops up with the Turnpike Troubadours. At this point, calling it a “rumor” almost undersells what we actually know. Both collaborations have left photographic fingerprints. What we do not know yet is where these songs are going, when we’re going to hear them, or whether Zach Bryan is quietly building something much bigger than the EP he’s already teased. And frankly, that last possibility is where this gets interesting. Zach Bryan and Turnpike Troubadours Finally Get in a Room Together On September 15, Turnpike Troubadours shared photos from a recording session featuring frontman Evan Felker and Zach Bryan. The caption was wonderfully unhelpful: “ZB & TT,” accompanied by Bryan’s “East Side of Sorrow.” No title. No release date. No explanation. Just enough information to send Red Dirt fans into cardiac arrest. There is some real history behind that song choice. Bryan famously celebrated Turnpike’s return in “East Side of Sorrow,” and he’s never exactly hidden his admiration for the Oklahoma band. Turnpike has opened a number of Bryan’s massive shows, Bryan has joined them onstage, and he called them his favorite band in the world when they played Buckeye Country Superfest in 2024. So seeing Zach Bryan and Evan Felker together in a studio isn’t just another superstar collaboration engineered to make two fanbases hit the same streaming button. This is the kind of collaboration that makes sense before anybody in a marketing department has to explain why it makes sense. Bryan’s relationship with Turnpike runs straight through the musical lineage that helped make his own career possible. Turnpike was carrying the Red Dirt and independent country torch long before Zach was filling stadiums, and he has spent years making sure audiences know exactly how much that band means to him. We’ve been watching this whole independent-country explosion unfold here at CountryMusicNewsBlog.com for long enough to know the difference between a collaboration that looks good on a playlist and one that actually means something to the people making it. Then There’s Lana Del Rey And here’s where the plot gets weirder. Or better. Probably both. Just days before the Turnpike studio tease, Lana Del Rey revealed that she and Bryan had completed a song together during a session in Massachusetts. Her September 13 Instagram post included Bryan in the studio and a photo of Lana, Bryan and Lana’s husband Jeremy Dufrene. She wrote that they had “finally got our song done.” There has been speculation that the song might be called “Whale,” based largely on Lana’s wording and all the whale imagery surrounding the post, but no official song title has been confirmed. More importantly, nobody has confirmed whose project the song belongs to. That matters because Lana has her own long-awaited project, Stove, on the horizon. She said in July that Stove was intact as intended and also revealed that it has a companion Continue reading →

Lainey Wilson Returns to Host as the 2026 CMA Awards Nominees Are Revealed

Shauna "WhiskeyChick" Castorena — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:31:00 +0000

Ella Langley Dominates 2026 CMA Awards Nominations as Lainey Wilson Returns to Host

The nominees are in for the 60th Annual CMA Awards, and Ella Langley is officially playing in country music’s biggest league.

Langley earned her first Entertainer of the Year nomination alongside Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Chris Stapleton and returning CMA Awards host Lainey Wilson.