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Breakfield is the self-titled debut album on Rounder Records from the Nashville four-piece Breakfield, released on June 12, 2026. The band — comprising vocalists and songwriters Wi lliam Reames and Barton Davies, bassist and guitarist Ford Garrard, and drummer Sam McCullough — spent over a decade recording under the name Boy Named Banjo before deciding both a name change and a sonic reinvention were in order. The new name was drawn from a road running through Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau, a stretch of land the band had explored during their college years, and it proved fitting: as Missing Piece Group describes it, the renaming coincided with a deliberate drift away from the rootsy sensibilities of their earlier work and toward a more electrified, alt-country sound rich with jangly riffs and high-powered rhythms. The album was produced by Sadler Vaden — longtime lead guitarist for Jason Isbell's 400 Unit and an increasingly in-demand producer whose credits include Morgan Wade and Amythyst Kiah — and mixed by four-time Grammy winner Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine).Across its eleven tracks, Breakfield ranges from country-rock anthems to tender ballads, drawing on both newly written material and a cache of never-released older songs reimagined through the band's newly unbridled approach. Songwriting credits are shared broadly, with co-writes from Vaden, Will Hoge, Meg McRee, and Katie Pruitt among others. Standout tracks include lead single "Canyon Walls," the tender "Ever-Loving Mind," and fan favorite "Angel 41," with additional contributions from fiddler Eli Cox and pedal steel player Kristen Weber filling out the sound. As Americana Highways notes, the album represents a conscious decision to "get a little dirtier" — a move that feels both like a bold step forward and, paradoxically, a return to the joyful abandon of the band's earliest days. The record was recorded at Pentavarit in Nashville and marks what the band describes as the truest representation yet of their electrifying live performance. Show more