West Texas Exiles + 7 Alt.Country new names to entertain you

It’s been a long time since we’ve had a good selection of Country and Alt.Country songs. This time, we’ve found almost a dozen new names that have the potential to invade the charts in 2025.

Check them out.

West Texas Exiles

There’s Texas, and then there’s West Texas. You can leave it behind but you can’t let it go. Nobody knows that better than the newly formed West Texas Exiles. Love of music and a restlessness to escape their hometowns brought them together in Austin. With an upcoming LP under their belts, they nonetheless have a deep catalog among the 3 singers/songwriters: Marco Gutierrez (Dirty River Boys), Daniel Davis, and Colin Gilmore; backed by bassist / producer Eric Harrison and drummer Trinidad Leal (DRB, Dixie Witch, Grady, Honky) With influences from The Flatlanders and Buddy Holly to Vampire Weekend and Jason Isbell they are reinvigorating the music scene with a modern interpretation of the lone star vernacular. Grounded in rhythmic and lyrical honesty, the Exile sound is the vastness of the West Texas sky and the energy of a world where nothing stands still for long. Their latest single “Best Kind of Love” is a perfect jam for the end of summer, holding off the fans until the release of their debut full length album early next year. This band of outsiders aren’t just waltzing across Texas, they are riding into the sunset in search of new horizons “while I still got my boots on my feet.”