Ariel Jade Takes Roots: The Americana Album to Radio, Station to Station, Market to Market

NASHVILLE, TN — July 17, 2026 — Nashville singer, songwriter, and producer Ariel Jade has launched her 2026 Roots Radio Tour in support of Roots: The Americana Album — the debut release from her newly founded label, Eclectric Records. The tour carries the album station to station and market to market across country radio, with in-studio interviews and acoustic performances leading into the album's vinyl and CD release on August 10. The first stop: WLX Radio — the Tennessee Valley's Superstation (97.5 WLLX / 98.3 WLXA), the highest-rated station in Lawrence County, Tennessee, reaching eleven counties across Southern Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama.

Roots arrived May 31 and debuted at No. 9 on the iTunes chart — a chart where every position reflects a purchase, not passive listening. The eight-track album is the most rooted Americana statement of her career, drawing a line from Delta blues through Southern rock to back-porch storytelling, and it follows her 2024 debut Honky Tonic and 2025 singles "Crazy Loves Company" and "Divorce Around Here."

“Radio is where I first learned that a song could find you exactly when you needed it. Taking Roots station to station lets me put these songs back into that human chain — from the people who made them, to the programmers who believe in them, to the listeners on the other side of the speakers.” — Ariel Jade

The album's credits run deep into Nashville's first-call bench: Grammy winner Randy Kohrs on lap steel, harmony vocals, and production on two tracks; Grammy-winning fiddle player Aubrey Haynie; 2023 ACM Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year Tim Galloway; session veterans Steve Brewster, Mark Fain, and Josh Shilling; with multi-Grammy-winning engineer Randy LeRoy mastering. Early tracks were produced with longtime collaborator Mike Loudermilk, and three were recorded and mixed by Eddie Gore at Historic RCA Victor Studio C.

“Ariel writes with the kind of specificity that makes a song feel personal and the kind of truth that makes it universal. Roots sounds lived-in — not manufactured — and that is exactly why these songs belong on country radio.” — Wood Newton, Nashville Songwriter

The radio tour caps a rollout that has carried Roots across Nashville all summer — including a CMA Fest performance at ACME on the Women Make Music showcase, her weekly Jaded Jams residency at Drifters in East Nashville, and monthly Bluegrass Pride shows at Canvas alongside Grammy-winning songwriter Melody Walker. Following the tour, the album arrives on vinyl and CD August 10, with new music already in the works.

Roots is available on all music platforms except Spotify — a deliberate stand Ariel Jade has taken on artist compensation and how music should be valued. Hear her explain the decision in her own words.