Today, Jett Holden shares “West Virginia Sky,” the echoing new single from his debut album The Phoenix, which is out October 4 as the first release on the newly-launched Black Opry Records. As the song moves forward over keys and a sauntering steel guitar, it shifts from the mystical to material and reveals a story about a family slowly losing its matriarch. Paying homage to his favorite view growing up in West Virginia, Jett says “This is the way I love to tell a story.”

Today, Jett Holden announces the October 4 release of his debut album The Phoenix as the first official release on Black Opry Records. Launched in partnership with Thirty Tigers, the new label continues the mission of The Black Opry, an organization and touring collective focused on celebrating and supporting Black roots and country artists.