[Cover photo credit to Austin Leih]

Country artist Thomas Csorba has announced the May 22, 2026 release of his new album, Tender Country, arriving via the newly-launched Turtlebox Records. His third studio album, Tender Country is “uninterested in posturing,” and instead reflects “tenderness, humor, and an acceptance of impermanence.”

Similar ideas are expressed in his new single, “The Big Time,” a that “illustrates the hardships of a life on the road and the family milestones you can miss along the way.”

Csorba says on the new single:

This song is the most honest song on the record. It’s a song that sits right there on the edge of the cliff of giving up. I figured there’s no other way to start but by addressing the elephant in the room. How does someone who values his stable home life and family reconcile that with his life as a travelling musician?

Born in Houston, Texas and now rooted in Dallas, Thomas Csorba writes Country music that “now exists alongside fatherhood and marriage with its value sharpened by the fact that it must be protected, chosen, and earned.”

Self-produced and recorded in a matter of days with trusted collaborators, the album “documents life as it is being lived.” The songs deal with “marriage, routine, fatigue, joy, and discovery.”

Tender Country follows Csorba’s 2024 release Windchimes, and his 2020 self-titled debut. Csorba has taken his performances to major festival stages including ACL Fest, Luck Reunion, and AmericanaFest, and he has supported everyone from Rodney Crowell and John Moreland to Amanda Shires, Yola and Courtney Marie Andrews.

The new album also finds Csorba partnering with lifelong friends in their new endeavor, Turtlebox Records, which is distributed by Missing Piece Records. In his early teens, Csorba apprenticed as a knife maker with his friend and mentor, Jonathan Mckenzie, who was then an entrepreneur. Mckenzie went on to found the rugged, outdoor speaker company Turtlebox Audio, which has remained committed to building a meaningful relationship with musicians. The company is launching a new record label and bringing the story full circle with Tender Country as their flagship release.

In Csorba’s words:

It’s an honor and pleasure to walk into this new season shoulder to shoulder with a group of people who I respect so deeply.