Drayton Farley joins the show once again to talk about his 2025, as well as writing process, enjoying time at home, and AI music.

Drayton recently released two new singles, "Turn Around" and "Touch and Go".

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Gary Stanton and Charlie Muncaster return to the show to talk about their new record, Longleaf Lo-Fi that is OUT NOW. We also get into their tour with Post Malone, being independent and navigating marketing their music, and the upcoming tour they've announced that will be in intimate theatre settings to support this record.

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Garrett and Josh dive into the Grammy nominations in the country music, Americana ,folk, and bluegrass categories for 2025 and give our picks.

Trenton Fletcher is a Red Dirt artist from Oklahoma. He recently released a new album, "Tornado Alley" and has spent time this year touring as support for Josh Meloy and playing headline shows across the country.

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Taylor Hunnicutt is a country music artist from Alabama.

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Blaine Bailey is a Red Dirt Country artist from the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma. Blaine recently released a new studio album, "Indian Country", which is available NOW.

Josh and Garrett get into the depths of early 2010s country music Twitter, U2, new music this week, and more!

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Evan Honer is an indie folk artist from Arizona. Evan recently released his new full-length record, "Everything I Wanted". We chat with Evan about the new album, creating and running his own independent record label, Cloverdale Records, and much more!

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Kade Hoffman is a country music artist from the plains of Colorado. Kade has steadily released music on La Honda Records over the past few years, including his debut EP in 2024, "Relics and Remnants", as well as four new singles this year in 2025. The most recent of those four singles, "Echoes" releases TOMORROW on October 3, 2025.

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Josh Meloy is a country artist from Oklahoma. Josh has seen huge success in the past few years, led by his single, "Porch Light", which has amassed over 300 million streams on Spotify alone.

Garrett and Josh dive into the Two Step Inn and Stagecoach lineup announcements, Americanafest 2025, Australia, and much more!

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On episode 169 (nice) we have Leon Majcen. Leon is an artist born in the Czech Republic, of Bosnian descent, and raised in Florida. Leon has released two full length records in the past two years, with plans to release 2-3 per year for the next five years. We get into the weeds on the start to his career, and Garrett and Josh dive into Americanafest, the rise of Zach Top, new music from Luke Bell, and much more!

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