Are the Red Clay Strays — the genre-fusing six-piece out of Mobile, Ala. — country music's best-kept secret?

If so, they won't be for long.

Even before the band won the Vocal Group of the Year Award at the 2025 CMAs , in a surprise upset over long-running winners Old Dominion , the Red Clay Strays were already generating a massive grassroots fanbase. Their listeners are passionate, and growing in number.

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New fans may know them best for "People Hatin'," the song they performed at the 2025 CMA Awards, but that's just the very beginning of what the Red Clay Strays have to offer. So much so that that song doesn't even make our Top 10 list of the best songs the band has out there.

The group formed in the mi

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