[Cover photo credit to Yiota Katsaitis]
Singer/songwriter Alicia Blue has announced her debut album, Country Desire, due out August 28, 2026. Produced by 4x Grammy-winner Shooter Jennings, Country Desire finds the Nashville-based artist exploring themes of “longing, consequence and control in a blue-collar epic.”
Along with the news, Alicia Blue has shared her new single “Kentucky Cowboy,” which “captures the spark of a chance encounter and its lingering possibilities.”
Alicia Blue hails from between the South Borderlands of Texas and the orange groves of Southern California, so she has been shaped as much by mariachi and rancheras as by classic Country.
Alicia Blue says:
In 2024, I drove up to the Kentucky-Tennessee border where I met a cowboy who had quite an effect on me. Between his wide open spaces, sincerity, pure heartedness and life rooted in the natural, I left with a million ‘what ifs.’ Like what would have happened if I went back sooner to say hello. I still have his spurs hanging on my wall. This song came on the tail of that experience, and I can’t wait for folks to hear it.
After Shooter Jennings discovered Alicia’s early demos, he agreed to make the album after their first meeting, with no label and no budget. A few months later, the pair went to Hollywood’s Sunset Sound studio. These sessions pulled together a players including Jay Bellerose on drums (Alison Krauss, Robert Plant, Ray LaMontagne), Brian Whelan on keys and textures (Dwight Yoakam), Ted Russell Kamp on bass (Sturgill Simpson, Tanya Tucker) and Greg Leisz on pedal steel (Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton), alongside Alicia’s guitarist Alex Labrie.
Alicia Blue will bring her new music on the road this summer, including a run of dates supporting Charley Crockett, with stops in California and New York.
Tour Dates:
May 8 – Chattanooga, TN – Nightfall Concert Series
May 22 – Friant, CA – Table Mountain Casino *
May 23 – Reno, NV – Grand Sierra Resort *
May 24 – Santa Rosa, CA – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts *
June 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Skinny Dennis
June 15 – State College, PA – The State Theatre
June 16 – New Hope, PA – John & Peter’s
June 17 – Woodbridge, NJ – Music on Main Street
June 19 – Brevard, NC – Transylvania County Library
June 30 – Billings, MT – Downtown Skatepark *
July 5 – Berwyn, IL – American Music Festival
* supporting Charley Crockett
