Got to where they are by never skipping a step.
Muscadine Bloodline has been in the country music game for ten years and have built their career from the ground up. The independent duo out of Alabama has never penned their name next to a label but has earned the respect of country radio, snagging their first charted hit with “10-90,” which entered the Top 50. They also recently got an ACM Awards nominations… rather unheard of for an indie artist.
.@MuscadineBLine’s “10-90” officially enters the Top 50 on this week’s published US Country Radio (Mediabase) chart.
It’s the duo’s first song to chart at the format. pic.twitter.com/tYgD9AcAiH
— U.S. Radio Updater (@USRadioUpdater) March 10, 2025
But that success was not built overnight. It took years of keeping their noses to the grindstone and figuring out the ins and outs of the business themselves without a label and, at one point, without management behind them.
“Year 10. Dang, we’ve been doing this awhile now. Some days it feels like we just got started and other days it feels like we’ve ben doing this “Muscadine” thing forever. Regardless, we’ve learned a lot over the years and most of it has been trial by fire.”
They might call those swings and misses a trial by fire, but in the long run, each step they took in the music business to grow their careers would benefit them because they learned so much about how this industry works outside of being just a singer or a songwriter.
In a recent interview for the Ten Year Town podcast, Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton said that even before they got big, they always had the mentality that they would not get help with their business, and that’s something that’s kept them so driven to succeed.
“I think when we started, we always pretended like we wouldn’t get help. Even before we were in Nashville, you know, we were just riding around in each other’s car, like switching off going and playing cover gigs just to make money.
The perception outside the music business is like, ‘Man, y’all need to get signed, and y’all need to get a manager, and y’all need to do this.’ And it’s like, man, let’s just pretend that’s never going to come.
You know, we didn’t even know the reality of how the industry operates at that point. But we always just said, ‘Hey, what if we never get help? What would we do today?'”
Charlie Muncaster said. Gary Stanton chimed in shortly after, noting that he feels it’s sometimes better to keep their business between them and their small team because they care the most about it.
“Along the way, what we’ve kind of learned is, okay, you’ve got to be able to sweep the floors, so we’ve learned every single st-. We haven’t skipped a step is what I’m trying to say. Little things that some artists don’t focus on, like merch or whatever. We’ve do all of our merch in-house, we hired someone on our team, and it’s kind of like we have our finger on the pulse of everything. Because out of necessity, in the beginning, we always had to.
But now, it kind of puts you in the spot a lot of times where you’re like, well there’s no one that’s around us, besides our little team, that’s going to care about this as much as us.”
Muscadine Bloodline’s dedication to learning the business and continually doing things their way has paid off, inspiring many other up-and-comers to do the same.
If anyone deserves what has come their way recently, like supporting Post Malone on tour, it’s Muscadine Bloodline. They have created a name for themselves from the ground up, and given that we are getting not one but two records from them this year, they have no signs of slowing down.
Hard work does pay off.
