Today’s Country

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Today’s Country

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Kelsea Ballerini’s long-awaited fourth album SUBJECT TO CHANGE is available now, and along with it comes standout track “MUSCLE MEMORY.” The breezy track finds Ballerini at her freest, with a lightness to her vocal that signals a newfound confidence from the “half of my hometown” hitmaker. Ballerini attributes some of that freedom to the unexpected downtime she suddenly found herself with during the COVID-19 pandemic, which coincided with the release of her third album, kelsea. “I wrote my first record when I was 19 and then have been in this wonderful whirlwind since I was 20, really,” Ballerini tells Apple Music. “And I started radio tour and it hadn't really stopped until 2020. And I just had this need, in that stillness and in that space, to take inventory of my life.” This playlist tracks what’s happening from the heart of the country scene to its outer edges. Check back here early and often, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

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