"[1] He became known as "Mr. Jukebox" while playing down on Broad "thanks to Hedley's pristine vocals, unrivaled musicianship, and truly encyclopedic knowledge of country music.

[7] Margo Price's version of "Ragged Old Truck", featuring Hedley, was released November 2022 on Live Forever: A Tribute To Billy Joe Shaver by New West Records.

Also contributing to the 12-song set were Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams, George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Nathaniel Rateliff, Steve Earle, and Rodney Crowell.

I couldn't write them fast enough.On March 17, 2020, Hedley and his group the Hedliners, together with Dave Cox, played their first livestreamed show at Robert's Western World, where he'd performed "thousands of times" since 2005.

[11] He appears September 2022 at AmericanaFest in Nashville, sharing stage with such acts as Lukas Nelson, Taj Majal, and Lori McKenna.

[2]Hedley's got a voice that could sing the phonebook and make it sound like a Sixties gem straight from Billy Sherrill's lost 1960s archives .

[13]Hedley, an old-school country singer, songwriter and fiddler whose sound recalls Johnny Paycheck and Merle Haggard, has spent years paying his dues in Nashville.

positioned Hedley as an unabashed revivalist, crafting a meticulous, loving re-creation of the heyday of the Nashville Sound, layering supple strings and vocal harmonies over the steady clomp of tic-tac bass.

"[16] Joe Diffie's death from COVID-19 in 2020 was the primary inspiration for the album, according to Hedley, who says of the effort: "After these last couple years we’ve had, I felt like I didn’t want to hang my sad-sack, typical brand on people.

No top shelf liquor or sleek product placements for Hedley: He’s down at the corner beer joint, drinking whatever’s on tap, in the can or in the bottle.

Country music seems to change every 10 years or so and that Nashville Sound being pioneered by guys like Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Billy Sherrill just really speaks to me.