Fast-rising Alabama country group hints at 2 new albums, tour in 2025
One breakout Alabama music act just went big with its new year’s resolutions, saying it aims to give fans two new albums in 2025.
Muscadine Bloodline, a south Alabama act founded by the duo of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton, had a big year in 2024. In March they headlined Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. In August they released “The Coastal Plain,” an album that focuses the guitar-driven, honky-tonk-friendly sound that has won the notice of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and other music-business news sources. In September they got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for megastar Post Malone.
Stanton and Muncaster kicked off 2025 with a public promise, via social media, to make this year even bigger.
“Some days it feels like we just got started and other days it feels like we’ve been doing this ‘Muscadine’ thing forever,” they said. “Regardless, we’ve learned a lot over the years and most of it has been trial by fire. To us, creatively speaking, it feels like we finally pieced what took 7 years to figure out together; starting with the ‘Teenage Dixie’ record a few years back. Since then, our goal has been to give y’all just that much more on the next record and have fun doing it every time. So when it came to he concept of “The Coastal Plain,” we couldn’t get all the stories and ideas conveyed on just … ONE RECORD.”
That means Chapter 2 of “The Coastal Plain” is on the way, they promised, and it’s more than an expanded edition or an odd lot of unreleased leftovers. “Consider it an evolution of ‘The Coastal Plain’ and what was left behind of the place we spent 18 years of our lives,” they said. “One record wasn’t intended to live without the other and honestly, we both like chapter 2 a little more.”
Also on the agenda for 2025: “Our biggest headlining tour to start the year … some big festivals this summer, the biggest tour we’ve been a part of in the fall, and another record at the end of the year. (TWO RECORDS IN ONE YEAR??? … Yes.)”
While they didn’t lay out any album release dates, Muncaster and Stanton said in a separate post that they’ll release a new song with Josh Meloy on Friday, Jan. 10.
Muscadine Bloodline currently lists two Alabama dates on its 2025 tour page: On July 3 and 4 they’ll open for the Red Clay Strays at the Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach.