HARDY’s new album Country! Country!, out today (Sept. 26) on Big Loud Records, gives fans a potent reminder that his recent rock tilt hasn’t erased his country bona fides in the slightest. This is, after all, the same artist who saw one of his earliest successes with a swaggering, tongue-in-cheek anthem called “Rednecker.”

Across the past decade, HARDY has become one of Nashville’s most prolific, versatile voices, a songwriter and artist who can put forth a twangy country anthem as easily as a bone-rattling rock song. Thus far, his career as an artist is marked by three No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart (“Truck Bed,” “Beers on Me” with Dierks Bentley and Breland, and “One Beer” with Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson) and a trio of No. 1s on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (“Psych

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