With their brand new release, Down Home, the songwriting duo of Music City natives Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings—better known as Teddy and The Rough Riders—have reminded critics, fans, and fellow musicians exactly why they are the outright heirs to the Cosmic-Americana throne.

The speed and momentum Teddy and the Rough Riders are gathering throughout Nashville’s underground Country music scene is embodied in their latest single, “Fast Livin.’’’ Music City natives, Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings, have been going non-stop since the late 2010s, collaborating with everyone from Margo Price to Emily Nenni to Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears, quickly becoming your favorite country band’s favorite country band.

The hybrid of classic country song craft and psyche-rock sounds inform the spirit of Nashville native songwriting duo of Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings—known throughout all music scenes as Teddy and the Rough Riders. The group’s latest single, “Hippies,” personifies that ethos to the nth degree with a rowdy, driving groove and interjecting, fuzz-laden guitars. “‘Hippies make the best country music’ is a line said to me after I show I played while I was backing Whitey Morgan,” remembers Quiggins.

Born and raised just a few minutes from Nashville’s Music Row, Teddy and the Rough Riders—the songwriting/vocal duo of Jack Quiggins and Ryan Jennings—blossomed in Nashville’s alternative-rock boom of the 2000s, spearheaded by the likes of Jack White and JEFF the Brotherhood. Through experimentation and sharing stages with groups like The Raconteurs and Natural Child, they naturally merged their rock leanings with the traditional country roots of Music City, developing a sound that is uniquely cosmic-Americana.