The best representation of country music’s broad scope in 2024 wasn’t a streaming playlist but this official soundtrack to a summer blockbuster about tornadoes.
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By now, nearly everyone knows the broad strokes of country music’s massive year: pop stars made Nashville records, country singles became historic all-genre hits, and formerly niche artists from Texas and Oklahoma evolved into huge headliners. Artists from all those categories are represented here, onBut it’s the lesser-known storylines that helped make 2024 such an entertaining, and pivotal year, in the genre’s history.
featured 29 new songs from mainstream radio stars like Luke Combs, Lainey Wilson, Thomas Rhett, and Kane Brown, along with rising stars on the red hot Texas and Oklahoma scenes, including Wyatt Flores, Dylan Gossett, Wilderado, and Flatland Cavalry. That’s in addition to singer-songwriter fare from Tyler Childers and Nolan Taylor, stoner country from Tyler Halverson, and the return of “yodeling kid” Mason Ramsey.
Most importantly, tracks like the brooding “Highway” and the rhythmic “Annabelle” prove that Shaboozey — who had a pair of big-time cameos on Beyoncé’sis a straightforward, happily down-home record, proudly in love with tradition, and every bit as fun and heartfelt as you’d expect from one of country’s freest spirits.
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