This next Muscadine Bloodline record can’t get here soon enough.
As anticipation builds for the project’s release on April 11, Muscadine Bloodline just dropped another single to keep the fans at bay for the next month, and man, it’s a heater. A laid-back and easy going track that puts Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton’s harmonies on full display, “Way Too High (2010)” is a nostalgic song in which the boys reminisce on their high school days growing up in Mobile, Alabama.
Written by Stanton, one of the best songwriters in country music right now, the song features catchy and clever lyricism that is often hyper local to the Mobile area, name dropping several locations and even shouting out a few old buddies by nickname throughout the song. But despite the specificity of some of the lyrics that most listeners won’t be able to relate directly to, the overall sentiment of the track is bound to strike a strong chord with the majority of the band’s fanbase.
At the beginning of the track, you can hear them in the background laughing and rapping along to “Broke Up,” a Lil Wayne deep cut off of his 2009 mixtape No Ceilings, which will immediately bring some people back in time from the get-go. But the bulk of the song is spent reveling in the memories of those high school years, riding around town with your friends, getting into a little bit of mischief, and thinking you’re on top of the world while doing it.
And that is something that people everywhere can relate to in some capacity, no matter how far away they grew up from Mobile.
Check out “Way Too High (2010)” here:
At this point, it’s become abundantly clear that Muscadine Bloodline just doesn’t miss.
The boys from Alabama have been an absolute force on the country music scene since frontmen Gary Stanton and Charlie Muncaster joined forces in 2016, but they have particularly been on fire since they gave the corporate music machine in Nashville the metaphorical middle finger and found their true sound in 2022’s Dispatch to 16th Ave.
They already had an impressive fan base by the time that album was released, with a few near-mainstream hits like “Porch Swing Angel” under their belt amidst a plethora of criminally underrated deep cuts and a strong debut record in Burn It At Both Ends, but they’ve since become one of the biggest independent bands in all of country music. They even just had their first song chart on country music radio with “10-90,” a very impressive feat for an independent band with a grassroots following like Muscadine Bloodline.
The awesome live show and the hardworking attitude they’ve put on display with their road warrior mentality definitely has something to do with the well-deserved recent success, but having released an album each year since 2022, they’ve really hit their stride as songwriters. And despite the prolific rate at which they’re releasing new music, the songs, for the most part, seem to get even better with each release.
And now, following Teenage Dixie in 2023 and The Coastal Plain in 2024, the release of Muscadine Bloodline’s next record is quickly approaching. And if the singles released thus far are any indication, then their next project …And What Was Left Behind is bound to once again be some of their best work yet.
Check out the album’s track list below, which features a couple of awesome collaborations including the album’s lead single “Ain’t For Sale” with Josh Meloy as well as an unreleased track with Ben Chapman.
“The High Horse vs. The White Horse”
“Ain’t For Sale” ft. Josh Meloy
“Deer in the Headlights”
“Chickasaw Church of Christ”
“Hittin’ My Stride” ft. Ben Chapman
“Am I Your Keeper?”
“Ballad of the Blanton Brothers”
“Durward”
“Borrowing a Broken Heart”
“Way Too High (2010)
“Meant to Be Friends”
The headlining shows have steadily been getting bigger and bigger for Muscadine Bloodline over the years, but fresh off of a full tour as direct support for Post Malone, and with some high profile shows supporting fellow Mobile-area act The Red Clay Strays and a long run of shows supporting Lainey Wilson on the horizon, Muscadine Bloodline is adding some MASSIVE shows to the resume.
With as good as these guys are, it’s a given that they’re bound to leave each of these shows with even more fans than when they arrived, and deservedly so. But that also means it’s going to become harder to get tickets to their headlining shows as they continue their meteoric rise in country music.
So don’t miss the opportunity to catch them headline if they’re coming to a city near you.
MUSCADINE BLOODLINE TOUR DATES
June 20—Milwaukee, WI—Summerfest
June 21—Clive, IA—Horizon Event Center*
June 27—Oklahoma City, OK—The Jones Assembly
June 28—Lubbock, TX—Cotton Fest 2025
July 3—Orange Beach, AL—The Wharf Amphitheatre†
July 4—Orange Beach, AL—The Wharf Amphitheatre†
July 10—Monte Vista, CO—SLV Ski Hi Stampede
July 11—Salt Lake City, UT—Granary Live
July 18—Jordan, NY—Kegs Canal Side
July 19—Peterborough, Ontario—North of Nowhere Music Festival
July 31—Jackson, WY—Snow King Mountain Festival
August 1—Boise, ID—ExtraMile Arena
August 7—Manteo, NC—Roanoke Island Festival Park
August 8—Charleston, SC—The Refinery
August 22—Albertville, AL—Sand Mountain Amphitheatre
August 23—Bentonville, AR—The Momentary Green
August 29—Greensboro, NC—Piedmont Hall
August 30—Richmond, VA—The National
September 12—Louisville, KY—Bourbon & Beyond
September 14—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre†
September 18—Austin, TX—Moody Center‡
September 19—Fort Worth, TX—Dickies Arena‡
September 20—Houston, TX—The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman‡
September 25—Toronto, ON—Budweiser Stage‡
September 26—Clarkston, MI—Pine Knob Music Theatre‡
September 27—Grand Rapids, MI—Van Andel Arena‡
October 2—Nashville, TN—Bridgestone Arena‡
October 3—Noblesville, IN—Ruoff Music Center‡
October 4—Cleveland, OH—Blossom Music Center‡
October 9—Columbia, MD—Merriweather Post Pavilion‡
October 10—New York, NY—Madison Square Garden‡
October 11—Mansfield, MA—Xfinity Center‡
October 16—St. Louis, MO—Hollywood Casio Amphitheatre‡
October 17—Rosemont, IL—Allstate Arena‡
October 18—Saint Paul, MN—Xcel Energy Center‡
November 21-23—United Central, FL—St. Pete Country Fest
November 22—Atlanta, GA—Tabernacle
*with special guest Josh Meloy
†supporting The Red Clay Strays
‡supporting Lainey Wilson
