Ashley McBryde

NEVER WILL

BUILDING ON the backto-basics success of her 2018 major-label debut, Never Will was this year’s most adventurous mainstream country LP. McBryde’s inspiration spans from old-timey mountain music (“Velvet Red”) to the glimmering, Fleetwood Mac-indebted title track, and she firmly establishes herself as an ace chronicler of forbidden pleasure and hardboiled lust.