The fourth season of the American television musical drama series Nashville, created by Callie Khouri, premiered on September 23, 2015, on ABC and concluded on May 25, 2016.

[1] The show features an ensemble cast with Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere in the leading roles as two country music superstars, Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes.

As with season three, the episodes are named after songs from a variety of country artists, including Lucinda Williams ("Can't Let Go"), Conway Twitty ("'Til The Pain Outwears The Shame"), Waylon Jennings ("Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"), Patty Loveless ("How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"), Reba McEntire ("How Does It Feel To Be Free") and LeAnn Rimes ("What I Cannot Change").

[6] The third season was the last to feature Eric Close as a series regular; he will no longer appear in the show as a main cast member.

[8] On October 13, 2015, it was announced that Hayden Panettiere would be temporarily leaving the series to receive treatment for post-partum depression;[9] at the time she had completed seven episodes.

Avery has been staying in Ohio with his parents and is hurting, and seriously missing Juliette, when he texts her, she dismisses his message, ignoring him.

Kevin and Will try to have a nice night out, but Will is getting yelled at by woman he has slept with, and can't take the pressure of being in the public eye.

Scarlett sees Caleb and tells him that she loves him, and Juliette is shown missing Avery and Cadence, while looking at pictures of them.

Deacon spends time with his sister in the hospital, Layla performs at the Bluebird, Daphne overhears some girls talking about Teddy and as well as making fun of her and Maddie.

Scarlett tells Deacon that she has made the decision to take Beverly off life support, upsetting him, because he feels responsible for killing her.

Deacon is having a hard time coping with the death of his sister, and he goes to an AA meeting to see if it will help him deal with the pain of losing Beverly; he instead decides to leave.

At the arena, Maddie spends time with Juliette and is invited onstage to sing with her, knowing that both Luke and Rayna would not be pleased.

He confronts Juliette, saying that she knows how upset Rayna will be when she find this out, adding that she shouldn't "try to play 'cool mom' with someone else's kid" just because she had abandoned her own.

Rayna works with Layla on her album, talks about her relationship with Jeff, and apologizes for Markus' interruption at the Opry.

Jeff tells Gabriella that he can spin Juliette's earlier outburst towards her fan, making it look good for the press.

Rayna tries to work with Markus, and help change his sound, but he begins to act like a jerk, and storms off saying that the whole thing was a mistake.

Scarlett is making sure everything in Beverly's house is packed, when she finds dozens of rejection letters from record labels.

Just as Juliette begins to step over the edge, Jeff lunges forward and saves her, but is thrown off balance and plunges to his death.

Deacon is focusing all his attention on the bar and won't help Rayna take care of Maddie.

Luke is feeling like everything that has happened, Juliette going crazy, Jeff dying, and Colt not trusting him, is all his fault.

The IRS informs Luke that his business manager has embezzled money from him and that he also owes forty million in back taxes.

A woman named Vita shows up at The Beverly wanting to sing, Deacon is so impressed that he has Rayna come down and listen for herself.

While singing on stage Will's performance is cut short by a guy who keeps yelling gay slurs and throws a beer bottle at him.

To prepare for the tour Riff is scheduled to perform at The Beverly as a warm up show but things don't go smoothly when he rehearses with Luke's band.

Maddie breaks up with Colt, and is treating Daphne unkindly when she starts hanging out with Frankie's daughter Cash more.

Juliette doesn't know how she can get back into music without Glenn's help and asks if he can manage her again but he tells her no, and to start over somewhere fresh.

Layla begs Luke to let her open for him; Bucky informs Rayna about it and she feels gut punched.

Avery, Layla and Glenn are in shock when Juliette announces during Luke's show that she is going to replace Riff on tour.

Avery shows up at Layla's hotel room to sleep with her, Scarlett and Gunnar get back together after spending part of the day stuck in an elevator.

Rayna and Deacon go to couples therapy to talk about their problems, and the therapist asks is they can forgive each other and forget the past.