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NEW YORK, NY – April 22, 2026 –Grand Ole Opry member and GRAMMY®, CMA, and ACM award winningsinger-songwriter Ashley McBryde will perform her chart-climbing country radio single “What If We Don’t” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this evening, Wednesday, April 22 , at 11:35 pm ET / 10:35 pm CTon NBC.
“What If We Don’t” is the lead single from McBryde’s forthcoming fi fth studio album, Wild, out May 8 via WarnerRecords Nashville, and her fastest-rising single ever to country radio. Stereogum calls the single “a bigpowerful singalong about romantic tension and the fear of making the fi rst move,” adding, “This thing has a chorus. ”Billboard highlighted the single with a Makin’ Tracks feature earlier this year, praising the song’saforementioned “power chorus” and “McBryde’s formidable vocal” – read the full story HERE.
This past weekend, McBryde closed out her 2026 Redemption Residency at Chief’s on Nashville’s LowerBroadway with back-to-back “Mixed Tape From The Mixed Up Years” shows. Both nights brought decades’worth of treasured deep cuts and jukebox classics to life, with full band sets covering the songs that madeMcBryde and members of her band, Deadhorse, want to make music in the first place.
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GRAMMY®, CMA and ACM award winning singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde “has arrived” (CBS Sunday Mornings). From back porches to biker bars across America’s Middle, to playing arenas, sheds, and stadiums around the world, the Arkansas native and Warner Records Nashville recording artist has dedicated her life to the craft of storytelling; “an artist with many things to say and a big enough voice to slice through the noise” (Rolling Stone).
The Grand Ole Opry member’s 2018 major label debut Girl Going Nowhere charmed The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Paste, The Washington Post and more, earning a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. Follow-up Never Will is one of the only albums ever nominated for Country Album of the Year by the ACM, CMA, and the Recording Academy in the same awards season. Her collaborative project, Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville, earned McBryde her third consecutive GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album, and opened up a parallel universe in homage to world-building song mastermind Dennis Linde that took the Nashville creative community by storm. Her latest, The Devil I Know, brought more critical acclaim, earning nods as one of the best country albums of the year from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Slate, PASTE, Holler and more.
In 2022, McBryde was honored with the CMA International Artist Achievement Award for the most significant creative growth, development and promotion of the country music industry outside of the U.S. This year, she was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from her alma mater, Arkansas State University, for her significant contributions to the field.
Ashley opened her non-alcoholic forward concept, Redemption Bar , at home on the fifth floor of Eric Church’sChief’s in Nashville last August, paired with her Redemption Residency at Chief’s Neon Steeple through mid-2026.
Hailed as “one of Nashville’s most reliable and sophisticated songwriters” (Los Angeles Times) McBryde willrelease her highly anticipated fi fth studio album, Wild, on May 8 via Warner Records Nashville. Her currentsingle to country radio and early preview of the record, “What If We Don’t,” is spinning nationwide now.
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