“There’s a lot of strength and a lot of vulnerability in the human condition,” Annie Bosko says while discussing her debut album. “It’s it’s okay to wake up one day and feel on top of the world, like you can kick ass and the next day, to feel like you’ve just had your ass kicked by life.”

That chronicling of emotional highs and lows serves as the emotional compass for her new album, California Cowgirl, out today (Oct. 2) on QHMG/Stone Country Records. The 19-track project, which follows her January-released self-titled EP, interlocks toughness, confidence, heartbreak and ambition, while interweaving moments from her own story of a West Coast farmer’s daughter who chased her dreams to Nashville.

Bosko calls the title track, “California Cowgirl,” “the album’s centerpiece, and the bar that

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