Nashville singer/songwriter and guitarist Melody Guy has announced new upcoming album, Train to Dreamland, available January 18, 2026. The 15 track album will fuse Rock, Pop, and Americana, focusing on “unflinching lyrical truth.”

Produced by Guy, and mixed and mastered by Pat Lassiter at Riverfront Studio, the album was recorded between Florence, Alabama, Portland, Oregon, and Madison, Tennessee. 

Train to Dreamland features collaborations with Melody Guy’s daughter Delaney Smith (Sit Pretty) on harmonies, Chas Williams (Nanci Griffith, Wynonna Judd) on slide, electric guitars, and dobro, Mike Daly (Travis Tritt, Hank Williams Jr.) on pedal steel guitar, and Paco Shipp (Jamie Hartford Band) on harmonica, as well as a number of other collaborators.

One song is a special duet, “Talk To Yourself,” recorded with her late friend Mark Elliott, a song she rediscovered after his passing. Muscle Shoals songwriter Mark Narmone, (Craig Morgan, Reba McEntire, John Michael Montgomery) plays keyboard and organ on the recording, and says:

Melody’s songwriting, voice and guitar playing on this record are all sweetly baptized in real life soulfulness. It’s a thing of beauty…

Guy wrote nine of the fifteen tracks, with the remaining songs co-writes with Mark Elliott, Wood Newton, Steve Dean, and Jorgen Thorup. The lead single, “Happy I’m Getting Older,” is already out and is a “grunge-rock anthem about embracing life, scars and all.”

Melody Guy has shared stages with Keith Urban, Tanya Tucker, Leon Russell, The Avett Brothers, John Michael Montgomery, Ashley McBryde, Maren Morris, and Amy Grant.