This week’s batch of latest nation music contains Kelsea Ballerini‘s cathartic new observe, collaborations from Callista Clark with Scotty McCreery, and from Jett Holden with Cassadee Pope, in addition to new music from Randall King.

Check out all of those and extra in Billboard‘s roundup of one of the best nation songs of the week under.

Kelsea Ballerini, “Sorry Mom”

Crackling acoustic guitar introduces this mid-tempo, pop-tilted musing, which previews the Grammy-nominated Ballerini’s upcoming album Patterns. As all the time, Ballerini excels in crafting lyrics dripping with beautiful candor, as this reconciliatory track finds her cataloging the methods she might not have lived as much as familial expectations, together with consuming, dropping out of school, having premarital intercourse, and generally placing profession earlier than household too usually. But she acknowledges that whereas the alternatives made in her youthful years little doubt brought about her mom moments of fear, the teachings discovered alongside the best way have cast a lady stronger, wiser, extra assured and decisive.

Randall King, “I Could Be That Rain”

One of nation music’s most towering new nation neo-traditionalist voices, King piles up the romantic fervor for an ex-lover on his newest, wishing he may sing his ex a favourite track and customarily regain her affections. The Texan with the wealthy, assured twang brings to the desk a barely extra polished manufacturing right here, however nonetheless squarely conventional sufficient to declare his skills on equal footing with a lot of right this moment’s hitmakers resembling labelmate Cody Johnson. “I Could Be That Rain,” written by Brian Fuller and Mason Thornley, marks King’s first single at nation radio and is included on his sophomore album Into the Neon.

Jett Holden feat. Cassadee Pope, “Karma”

Earlier this yr, Jett Holden was introduced as the primary signing to Black Opry Records, with Holden’s debut album The Phoenix out Oct. 4. “It turns out loyalty is just as dead as chivalry,” Holden sings on “Karma,” one of many songs from the undertaking, welcoming Cassadee Pope on this stinging, churning rebuff to a romantic traitor. Matched by seething rock guitars, Holden and Pope’s voices punch arduous, standing their floor and swelling right into a wounded-yet-defiant, rock-fueled declaration.

Kayley Green, “Shadow of a Cowboy”

Kayley Green has been a longtime fixture in downtown Nashville’s music scene, acting at a number of downtown music venues, and at one level, becoming a member of Keith Urban onstage throughout his Bridgestone Arena present, earlier than Green signed with Sony Music Nashville earlier this yr. She follows earlier launch “Live Fast Die Pretty” with this polished kiss-off to a lover who can’t tame his rambling methods. Sinewy guitars and understated percussion underpin Green’s rafter-reaching soprano, earlier than she taunts the ex-lover with, “You’re just a shadow of a cowboy/ A real one would stay.” Green wrote this observe with Jon Nite, Ross Copperman, and Ben Williams.

Scotty McCreery and Callista Clark, “Gettin’ Old”

Though Scotty McCreery possesses one of the crucial transcendent conventional voices in trendy nation, McCreery has been even handed in releasing collaborations with different vocalists, with a lot of his collabs being linked to his days as an American Idol contestant. But on this somber observe, he groups mightily with Clark, his stable oak of a voice a foil for her modern vocal, whereas they match one another heartache for heartache as they attain into their higher registers. Together, their voices embody the sparkles of hope that also spark among the many ashes as they sing of a pair who understand their relationship is rising stale, slightly than stronger. Clark wrote this observe with Averie Bielski and Karen Kasowski.

Will Moseley, “I Don’t Want to Fight No More”

American Idol alum Moseley lends his thousand-watt vocal to this observe penned by Alex Maxwell, Dawson Edwards and Kameron Marlowe. Southern rock leanings plus heartbreak and weary resignation converge on this observe a couple of couple who understand their relationship’s frayed edges are on the breaking level, making this an ideal go-to observe for anybody wading by way of emotional despair at a relational crossroads.