Biography
The songs of Waylon Wyatt, marked by spare acoustic settings and lyrics that carry an old-soul weight, quickly found favor among country listeners. After issuing the breakthrough tracks “Arkansas Diamond” and “Everything Under the Sun,” the young performer enjoyed a standout period that included slots opening for Dwight Yoakam and a major-label agreement, all before he had finished high school.
Born Waylon Wyatt Potter in Hackett, Arkansas in 2006 and named for outlaw-country figure Waylon Jennings, he soon found himself drawn to contemporary writers such as Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan. At first he limited himself to posting covers online, treating his own material as private work he refined only at home. Yielding to a friend’s urging, he shared a performance of the lovelorn “Everything Under the Sun”; once the songs began attracting millions of streams, he received an approach from indie label Music Soup, which contacted his father’s construction firm after spotting the company logo on a cap in one of his videos.
Wyatt captured his early originals—“Everything Under the Sun,” “Arkansas Diamond,” and “Back to Then”—on acoustic guitar inside his family kitchen. These recordings formed the core of his 2024 debut EP, Til the Sun Goes Down. Additional notice arrived when fellow rising songwriter Bayker Blankenship posted a cover of “Arkansas Diamond”; the pair later convened in Nashville and co-wrote the heartland-folk track “Jailbreak.” The song marked one of Wyatt’s first releases under a new arrangement with Darkroom Records, the label known for Billie Eilish, which thereby added its first country artist and reissued Til the Sun Goes Down with the road-tested addition “O.D.” During 2024 Wyatt supported Dwight Yoakam on select dates, and he is slated to appear at the Stagecoach Festival in California in 2025, still several months shy of completing his final year of high school.
Born Waylon Wyatt Potter in Hackett, Arkansas in 2006 and named for outlaw-country figure Waylon Jennings, he soon found himself drawn to contemporary writers such as Tyler Childers and Zach Bryan. At first he limited himself to posting covers online, treating his own material as private work he refined only at home. Yielding to a friend’s urging, he shared a performance of the lovelorn “Everything Under the Sun”; once the songs began attracting millions of streams, he received an approach from indie label Music Soup, which contacted his father’s construction firm after spotting the company logo on a cap in one of his videos.
Wyatt captured his early originals—“Everything Under the Sun,” “Arkansas Diamond,” and “Back to Then”—on acoustic guitar inside his family kitchen. These recordings formed the core of his 2024 debut EP, Til the Sun Goes Down. Additional notice arrived when fellow rising songwriter Bayker Blankenship posted a cover of “Arkansas Diamond”; the pair later convened in Nashville and co-wrote the heartland-folk track “Jailbreak.” The song marked one of Wyatt’s first releases under a new arrangement with Darkroom Records, the label known for Billie Eilish, which thereby added its first country artist and reissued Til the Sun Goes Down with the road-tested addition “O.D.” During 2024 Wyatt supported Dwight Yoakam on select dates, and he is slated to appear at the Stagecoach Festival in California in 2025, still several months shy of completing his final year of high school.
Singles
