Contemporary country outfit Muscadine Bloodline weave elements of Texas Red Dirt country’s straightforward style with occasional Southern rock energy, while also displaying the refined Nashville songwriting approach at times. Those threads surface clearly across their self-titled 2017 debut EP and the 2022 album Dispatch to 16th Avenue. Further explorations of their roots arrived with 2023’s Teenage Dixie and the pop-punk covers collection Teenage Angst. Returning to original songs, the pair issued the robust 2024 full-length The Coastal Plain.
Raised in Mobile, Alabama, and later based in Nashville, Tennessee, the duo of Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton launched Muscadine Bloodline in 2016. Their debut EP appeared the next year. Although both singer/songwriters grew up in the same hometown, they first crossed paths as adults while chasing music careers; Stanton sought an opener and soon began collaborating with Muncaster, leading them to form the band. After relocating to Nashville, they issued three 2016 singles—“Southern Boy Cure,” “Porch Swing Angel,” and “Shut Your Mouth”—before recording the Muscadine Bloodline EP with producer Luke Laird, which surfaced in early 2017. Their follow-up EP Movin’ On arrived the next year and included the charting title track.
Throughout 2019 the pair rolled out digital singles including “Enemy,” “Montgomery,” “Girl from Mississippi,” “Put Me in My Place,” “Miss That Truck,” “Damn I Need a Dirt Road,” and “Mind of Its Own,” later reworking several for the Acoustic Sessions, Vol. 1 EP. They opened 2020 with the Boys EP, then used pandemic downtime to release acoustic Boys tracks plus two Quarantine Work-Tapes sets, followed by the summer 2020 EP Turn Back Time.
In 2021 they unveiled the intense “Dyin’ for a Livin’,” then added “No, Pedal Steel” in early 2022; both cuts featured on Dispatch to 16th Avenue, released that February. Early 2023 brought the full-length Teenage Dixie, which reached the Top 20 on the Top Heatseekers chart, while the companion Teenage Angst EP arrived in June with covers of blink-182, Yellowcard, Jimmy Eat World, and others. November previews of their next album included “Weyerhaeuser Land” and “Low Hangin’ Fruit,” with “10-90” and the acoustic “Good in This World” following in the first half of 2024 ahead of The Coastal Plain’s August release. The rugged and poetic 14-track collection highlighted the duo’s organic method and deep-rooted sound.
