It’s all taking place for Kaitlin Butts, and it couldn’t be taking place to a extra deserving artist. After releasing her critically-acclaimed idea album Roadrunner! in 2024, launching a viral second by way of her track “You Ain’t Gotta Die (To Be Useless To Me),” being a part of the Opry NextStage program, the Nation Music Corridor of Fame’s American Currents exhibit, and opening exhibits for Lainey Wilson, that’s all led to Kaitlin signing with Republic Data, formally introduced on Thursday (10-30).
“I’ve stored my head down and performed the work for thus lengthy, I lastly stopped to go searching and see that the work that I’ve put in has introduced me to the place I’ve at all times wished to be,” Kaitlin Butts mentioned on social media. “From releasing my album over a yr in the past as an impartial artist, to having a viral track, to now signing a report take care of such a prestigious label like Republic Data, the journey has felt nothing wanting surreal. I’m so impressed by the crew and the way their imaginative and prescient for me aligns with the desires that I’ve at all times had for myself.”
This places Kaitlin Butts on the identical label as Miranda Lambert and Taylor Swift. Although Republic just isn’t solely a rustic label, they’ve been increasing into the nation market lately.
“Kaitlin is a generational expertise, a exceptional artist and songwriter with a transparent voice and highly effective standpoint,” says Mary Catherine Kinney of Republic Data. “She’s sincere, magnetic and fully her personal. A drive dwell, she’s constructed an exceptional profession by way of her unmatched drive and imaginative and prescient. I’ve had the privilege of watching her evolution as an artist and am thrilled to welcome her to the Republic household. We’re deeply honored to associate along with her on this subsequent chapter.”
Although that subsequent chapter will possible result in a brand new authentic album from Kaitlin Butts within the not too distant future, she’s beginning off the partnership by releasing a covers EP on November 14th. Referred to as the Yeehaw Classes, it’s the sequel to Kaitlin’s Unhappy Yeehaw Sessions that got here out in 2022 by way of Kaitlin’s earlier distributor, Soundly Music.
The brand new EP is led by Kaitlin’s tackle the Jimmy Eat World track “The Center” (hear beneath). Kaitlin additionally covers “Tulsa Time” by Don Williams, “Sin Wagon” by the [Dixie] Chicks, and Chappell Roan’s “Purple Wine Supernova”—all songs Kaitlin’s featured in her dwell units previously. The EP may even embrace a reprise of “You Ain’t Gotta Die (To Be Useless To Me).”
“I really feel very related to Republic as a result of I really feel like their imaginative and prescient for me aligns with the desires that I’ve at all times had for myself,” Butts advised Selection. “And it simply actually feels good to work with a crew that’s so champing on the bit to get to work, they usually appear to wish to work simply as onerous as I’ve been for a very long time, so I’m excited to get to work with them.”
YeeHaw Classes is offered to presave.
