UNLOCKED: ASHLEY MCBRYDE REVEALS TRACKLIST FOR FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM 'WILD' (OUT 5/8) WITH HELP FROM THE TRYBE

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NASHVILLE, TN – March 24, 2026 – Continuing to roll out her next chapter with the help of devoted fans around the world, Grand Ole Opry member and GRAMMY®, CMA, and ACM award winning singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde unveils the tracklist for fifth studio album, Wild, out May 8 via Warner Records Nashville.

Last week, 11 patches were mailed across the globe to some of McBryde’s top fans – members of her official fan club, The Trybe. Each patch held a passcode key and instructions on how to unlock the title of a different song from Wild. When someone entered their password on McBryde's official website, that patch lit up on a jean jacket that matched the one Ashley wears in the cover art for the album, and released the title to all fans globally. One by one, the Trybe unlocked the album’s tracklist together, revealing all 11 songs worldwide late last night.

Still live on McBryde’s Wild website, fans who re-enter those discovered passwords HERE
can hear early previews of every song on Wild, and enter to win one of five limited edition physical versions of the unlocked patch jacket. Enter HERE.

Wild Tracklist
1. Rattlesnake Preacher (Randall Clay)
2. Arkansas Mud (Ashley McBryde, Jessie Jo Dillon, Chris Tompkins)
3. Water in the River (Randall Clay, Blue Foley, Roger Hodges)
4. Creosote (Ashley McBryde, Lisa Carver)
5. Bottle Tells Me So (Ashley McBryde, Shelly Fairchild, Terri Jo Box)
6. What If We Don’t (Ashley McBryde, Terri Jo Box, Randall Clay)
7. Lines In The Carpet (Lauren Hungate, Caroline Watkins, Lori McKenna)
8. Behind Bars (Jeff Hyde, Jessie Alexander, Jon Randall)
9. Hand Me Downs (Ashley McBryde, Jessie Jo Dillon, Laura Veltz)
10. Wild (Jeremy Spillman, Makayla Lynn, Matraca Berg)
11. Ten to Midnight (Ashley McBryde, Travis Meadows)

All songs produced by John Osborne

Making Wild began at a moment of overwhelming uncertainty for McBryde. Despite the tremendous success she’d achieved through the years—including earning accolades for acclaimed albums like 2020’s
Never Will, one of the only LPs ever to garner Country Album of the Year nominations from the ACM, CMA, and GRAMMY ®s all in the same awards season—she found herself questioning whether it was worth it to keep making music at all.

In searching for a way forward, McBryde turned back, revisiting the songs she’d once been told were too much: too raw, too honest, too unvarnished for release. Initially set aside for their unsparing intensity, those tracks took on new resonance as her sense of self deepened. “At the time I was told I needed to be more palatable than what those songs were offering,” says McBryde. “I’ve kept them in my live show over the years, and I’m so thankful that I never cut them before this album. When I hear myself playing them now, I can finally believe the woman who’s singing.”

Tallying six McBryde co-writes and five outside songs spanning over 15+ years of songwriting, Wild slowly came together unlike any other record of McBryde’s career.

“We brought an entirely new approach to the studio every day, where we cut what spoke to us in that moment. No plan for an album, no timeline, no pressure – just me, John, the boys and a feeling,” she reflects. “These songs that have lived with us for years, and new songs that found their way to us and immediately felt like mine, they all started to outline the shape of a story I knew too well. They fell together to tell my story; I think that’s what happens when you let the Wild back in.”

Produced by Lindeville collaborator John Osborne (Brothers Osborne) and recorded with her live band, Deadhorse, Wild provides another exhibit of “McBryde’s exquisite lyrical portraits of human vulnerability and the ragged ways we move through this world” (No Depression), tracing a captivating narrative that culminates in the moment just before McBryde quit drinking.

Wild is previewed by early releases “Rattlesnake Preacher,” “Arkansas Mud,” most recent release “Bottle Tells Me So,” and McBryde’s current single to country radio, “What If We Don’t” – the #1 most-added single of the week upon impact, earning McBryde the biggest add date of her career. More announcements from Wild to come.

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GRAMMY®, CMA and ACM award winning singer-songwriter Ashley McBryde “has arrived” (CBS Sunday Mornings). From playing 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’s Chief’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 will release her highly anticipated fifth studio album, Wild, on May 8 via Warner Records Nashville. Her current single to country radio and early preview of the record, “What If We Don’t,” is spinning nationwide now.