Today (February 14), Alabama-born independent country duo Muscadine Bloodline announced their fifth studio album …And What Was Left Behind. The new collection follows their highly-acclaimed 2024 release The Coastal Plain and sees the duo continuing to spin stories about the people, places, and things that shaped them as artists and men. Hear the new single “Chickasaw Church of Christ” below.
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2024 was a huge year for Muscadine Bloodline. They released their fourth studio album in the summer and sent “10-90” to country radio, giving Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton their radio debut. Additionally, they paused their Coastal Plain Tour to join Post Malone on the F-1 Trillion Tour as direct support. It looks like they’re carrying that momentum into the new year.
They’re currently on their postponed Coastal Plain Tour, rocking crowds and selling out venues across the United States. Additionally, they’ve already given fans a pair of samples of what’s to come with “The High Horse vs. The White Horse” and “Ain’t for Sale.” The latter has already garnered more than a million streams.
…And What Was Left Behind Tracklist and Information
Muscadine Bloodline will release …And What Was Left Behind on April 11 via Stancaster Music/Thirty Tigers. Fans can pre-order or pre-save the album today.
Tracklist:
- “The White Horse vs The High Horse”
- “Ain’t for Sale” featuring Josh Meloy
- “Deer in the Headlights”
- “Chickasaw Church of Christ”
- “Hittin My Stride” featuring Ben Chapman
- “Am I Your Keeper?”
- “Ballad of the Blanton Brothers”
- “Durward”
- “Borrowing a Broken Heart”
- “Way Too High”
- “Meant to Be Friends”
How Muscadine Bloodline Found Their Identity
Muscadine Bloodline’s debut album saw the duo chasing Nashville trends and doing what industry professionals and insiders told them they “should” be doing. After taking stock of what they were doing, they released Dispatch to 16th Ave. in 2022, with a brand-new sound that was a blend of modern Americana and ‘90s country. Since then, the band has continued to evolve, stripping away layers and becoming more authentic.
Last year, ahead of the release of The Coastal Plain, Muscadine Bloodline sat down with American Songwriter to discuss their progression and what they planned to do moving forward.
“These last few records have been pretty much Charlie and I writing,” Gary Stanton said. “We’re producing the albums and our tour band is playing in the studio with us and we’re going back to the first person we did music with when we came to town with Ryan Youmans,” he added.
The same is true for the upcoming album. Muncaster and Stanton co-produced the record with Youmans.
“We’re just trying to world build, essentially in these records,” Stanton explained. “So, it’s like, take the listener to a place. This record is a book,” he added. If Coastal Plain was a book, …And What Was Left Behind will be its sequel, set in the same place with new stories.
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