From The Label
International Bluegrass star Kristy Cox is sure to delight listeners with No Headlights, her follow up to 2018’s smash Ricochet. How the superstar singer, songwriter, small business owner, and mother of two does it is mystery, but Kristy waltzes through her life with a joy and energy that is nothing short of addictive.
Scheduled for release on February 28, the album spawned three pre-release singles, ‘Yesterday’s Heartache’, ‘Train’ & the album title track, ‘No Headlights’.
Although Cox is a fantastic songwriter in her own right, the album’s first single ‘Yesterday’s Heartache’ is another in a long line of exceptional music from the Nashville-based hit singer/songwriter Jerry Salley (accompanied by Kelli Kingrey and Bruce Carpenter). The track features Kristy’s deep and soulful voice that fans have come to know and love. Written by Bill Whyte, Steve Dean, and Daisy Mallory, the album’s second single ‘Train’ is an upbeat tune about a girl who has been treated wrong for the last time, while the third single and title track, ‘Yesterday’s Heartache’, which debuted at number 5 on the Bluegrass Today charts in late January 2020, is a dark and powerful song written by Liz Hengber, Tammy Rogers, and Jerry Salley. Kristy’s delivery is again perfect as she sings the tale of a friend who vows to make sure her friend is never abused again.
A familiar roster of all-star bluegrass session musicians helped lay down the tracks for the album, including Jason Roller (guitar & fiddle), Mike Bub (bass), Justin Moses (mandolin and dobro/reso-guitar), and Aaron McDaris (banjo), with Tammy Rogers and Jerry Salley helping out on harmony vocals.

From The Label
For 2018’s #1 Billboard Album Debut & Grammy shortlisted Ricochet, Kristy Cox once again teamed up with producer and renowned songwriter Jerry Salley; seven of the ten tracks on the album were co-written by one or both of them. Proving to be quite the formidable pairing in writing and recording great bluegrass and acoustic country music, to date the album has spurned two Bluegrass Today number one singles for ‘Ricochet‘ (Kristy’s first US #1, it topped the charts for two successive weeks knocking legends Dolly Parton and Rhonda Vincent from the top spot) and ‘I Can Almost Smell The Smoke’, while the third single release, ‘South To North Carolina’, was Sirius XM’s Bluegrass Junction #1 played record for January 2019, a song that will resonate well with die-hard bluegrass fans and which proves that Aussie Cox is equally at home in the US, both musically and geographically. Another album highlight is ‘A Bed This Cold’, a duet with Brandon Rickman of the Lonesome River Band, who also penned the song with Salley. Additional guest vocalists include Salley, Rogers, Maggie Salley, Donna Ulisse, and Josh Swift. Adding to this already solid recording is an all-star cast of musicians: Jason Roller (fiddle/guitar); Justin Moses (Dobro/mandolin); Aaron McDarris (banjo); and Mike Bub (bass). Ricochet will likely find a rightful spot among listener’s favourites, thereby giving Kristy Cox some well-deserved longevity in bluegrass music.