For her third album, Rattlin’ Bones, Bronwyn, a Grammy-winning Americana/bluegrass artist and two-time IBMA “Fiddle Player of the Year,” decided to purposely leave her comfort zone and dive headfirst into a new, unknown realm of possibility for the musician — songwriting. With her former group, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, dissolving amicably last year, the window of opportunity opened up for Bronwyn to pursue her own artistic endeavors, under the bright stage lights and in the recording booth. On Rattlin’ Bones, she has dug deep within to finally uncover and embrace her unique talents and sonic tones. Co-produced by Bronwyn and Brent Truitt (The SteelDrivers) at Truitt’s Nashville studio, and also at the Tractor Shed in nearby Goodlettsville, Rattlin’ Bones features some of Music City’s finest: dobroist Jerry Douglas, guitarist Bryan Sutton, mandolinist Harry Clark, bassists Dennis Crouch and Jeff Picker, banjoist Wes Corbett, drummer Miles Miller, and Bronwyn’s former Golden Highway bandmate, Dominick Leslie, all atop members of her touring group. The album also features a duet with Nashville’s underground country music hero Timbo, and harmonies provided by songwriting great, Darrell Scott, among others.

Alicia Blue. (pronounced: Alee-see-yuh) Hailing between the South Texas borderlands and the orange groves of Southern California, Nashville-based Alicia Blue writes country songs rooted in desire, consequence, and control. The daughter of a truck driver and a bank teller, her voice carries a blue-collar directness shaped as much by mariachi and rancheras as by classic country. Alicia doesn’t look away from her past—she draws from it, pulls back the bow, and aims straight through. What she hits feels inevitable. The landing place lives somewhere between the outlaw gravity of Waylon, the high-lonesome clarity of Dolly, and the ache of Emmylou—but it never feels borrowed. It feels claimed—hard and undeniable. When asked what drives her work, Alicia doesn’t hesitate: “What didn’t lead to it? I’d say a lifetime of parts of myself that came to the surface, that needed airtime, the spotlight, so they could stop sitting in the driver’s seat. Parts that wanted the rush of a poetic life, at the cost of personal power and stability. Romance with cowboys, men with working hands but a notebook and guitar in the back. Mirrors and smoke and mirrors. Reality reckoning with illusion.” That tension—between illusion and reckoning, romance and ruin—defines Alicia Blue. Her songs live in the gray, where desire blurs the line between salvation and self-destruction, and the search itself becomes the story. Four-time Grammy Award–winning producer Shooter Jennings heard that voice early on through a handful of acoustic demos and asked her to make a record—no label, no budget, just instinct. He’s since called her “as rare as they come” and “A voice that comes along once in a generation.” Together, they made her debut album, Country Desire, at Sunset Sound in Hollywood with a refusal to play it safe. Country Desire arrives August 28, 2026, with several singles leading up to its release. With early tour dates opening for Charley Crockett and standout appearances alongside Jason Isbell, Rodney Crowell, and Patty Griffin, Alicia Blue is already building something that feels less like an arrival and more like a reckoning. She doesn’t chase a sound. She claims it.

Singer from Milwaukee, WI Previously of Luella and The Sun