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First Listen: RaeLynn, 'WildHorse'

Stream the budding country star's beguiling debut album before its official release on March 24.
RaeLynn's new album, <em>WildHorse</em>, comes out March 24.

It was all too easy to paint the recent era of with a broad, dismissive brush. Reworking familiar tropes has always been central to country songwriting, so it wasn't merely that rankled. More off-putting was the sense that there was little in to make the commonplace tropes feel personalized or particular. Since then, it's been heartening to a of millennial quietly exploring the possibilities. But RaeLynn's ballad "" sets a new bar for connecting these contemporary shadings to country storytelling tradition.

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