Jordyn Shellhart

A country-pop singer and songwriter whose work as both a hitmaker for other artists and a recording artist in her own right draws on the intimate storytelling of Emmylou Harris and Kris Kristofferson while echoing the modern sensibilities of Taylor Swift, Kacey Musgraves, and Phoebe Bridgers, Jordyn Shellhart had already secured a publishing deal and a major-label contract, along with a Grand Ole Opry performance, by the time she turned 16. Fourteen years after issuing her first album, she returned in 2023 with her sophomore full-length, Primrose.

Shellhart entered the world in Wheatland, Wyoming, before growing up in Santa Rosa, California, where she began composing songs at age ten; acquiring a guitar three years later sharpened her focus on building a professional career. She signed with SeaGayle Music in 2008 and juggled high-school responsibilities with an accelerating music schedule, then issued her spare, entirely acoustic debut, In a Room, the next year. Throughout the following decade she supplied successful material to Kelsea Ballerini, Cody Johnson, Don Williams, and Little Big Town—the last of those partnerships earning a Grammy nomination.

Warner Music Nashville welcomed her to its roster in 2022, the same year she placed the track “Praise You” in season three of the British teen comedy Derry Girls. In the months that followed she issued the singles “Who Are You Mad At?” and the reflective “Maybe Someday You’ll Have a Daughter,” both of which found homes on the 2023 album Primrose.