Kaitlin Butts Delivers Her 'Yeehaw Sessions' EP

11-16-2025

(EBM) Acclaimed Nashville-based singer, songwriter and performer Kaitlin Butts continues a banner year with the release of her highly anticipated new EP, Yeehaw Sessions, available today via Republic Records. The project marks Butts' first release since signing with the major label, and it captures the Oklahoma native at her most playful, soulful, and self-assured yet.

Butts gave fans an early taste of the collection late last month with her reflective and emotionally charged rendition of the Jimmy Eat World classic "The Middle," which has already earned widespread acclaim. Garden & Gun hailed it as "the cover you didn't know you needed" while Billboard praised it as "Must Hear" and noted, "Butts' version comes across as tender, wise, and thoughtful" while Saving Country Music added, "Leave it to Kaitlin Butts to take a Jimmy Eat World song and make it into a sentimental and touching country tune."

"A couple years ago I put out an EP called Sad Yeehaw Sessions, a collection of sad covers that I have always loved and wish I had written myself," Butts explains. "After releasing Roadrunner! which featured much happier songs, I wanted folks to know that there were brighter days ahead. So we created the antithesis - something upbeat, rowdy, and fun: all cover songs that I've been performing live the last couple years."

Following in the spirit of her beloved 2022 Sad Yeehaw Sessions EP, Yeehaw Sessions flips the script - this time channeling joy, rowdiness and the electric energy of her live show. After road-testing these crowd favorites, Butts recorded them with the energy and spirit fans have come to love. The EP features her takes on "Red Wine Supernova" (Chappell Roan), "Sin Wagon" (The Chicks), "Tulsa Time" (Don Williams) and her viral smash "You Ain't Gotta Die (To Be Dead To Me)" - alongside her memorable take on "The Middle." Stream the EP here