Edwards - who has logged 150M+ streams and two Grand Ole Opry appearances - launches a multiple-city Texas run behind his debut album Texas Soul, with a landmark Houston show alongside his sister, country breakout Madeline Edwards
HOUSTON, TX (May 2026) - Houston songwriter Micah Edwards is coming home. This fall, Edwards launches the Texas Soul Tour, a fourteen-city run across the state - Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio - behind his debut album Texas Soul, out now on all major platforms. The tour's most anticipated stop is Houston, where Edwards will share the stage with his sister Madeline Edwards, one of country music's fastest-rising stars. As Micah has been carving his own lane in the space where country, soul, and borderland Texas music meet, the Houston show brings both artists to the same stage for what promises to be one of the most talked-about Texas music moments of the fall. It's a homecoming show and a family affair - a rare opportunity to see two siblings at pivotal moments in their careers, on their home turf.
Texas Soul is not a genre experiment - it's a recognition. Edwards grew up between California and Houston, half Black and half white, and spent years learning that Texas music has always resisted easy categories. Honky-tonks, soul clubs, borderland boleros, Hill Country dance halls: the state has long been a crossroads where country and R&B exist as neighbors, not rivals. Edwards makes that collision feel inevitable. The album - produced with Kendrick Ballard, Anthony Farrell, Jack Gulielmetti, Cameron Jaymes, and Andrew Trube - moves from rockabilly to '60s R&B to '80s country, with pedal steel drifting across jazz chord progressions and horn sections swelling beneath Americana storytelling. Each side of the vinyl is named after a Texas community that shaped Edwards' life: Pasadena (once home to Gilley's, the world's largest honky-tonk), Concan (on the Frio River), Mission (in the Rio Grande Valley), and Galveston, where Edwards married his wife and filmed his first music video.
“When I say 'Texas Soul' is a spectrum, I mean it. This record moves from boleros to rockabilly, from ’60s R&B to ’80s country, and somehow it all still feels like the same story. Texas has always been a crossroads, and I wanted the album to sound like that - wide, textured, and big enough to hold all of it.”
- Micah Edwards
Texas Soul is as fluid and diverse as the state it calls home. It’s butter and twang, pine and stone - a sound as vast and textured as Texas itself. “It’s falling in love under neon lights in a honky-tonk - equal parts sultry and steel, leather and lace,” Edwards explains. Across the album, Edwards balances sweeping themes with deeply personal storytelling. “Partner in Crime” captures a road-worn kind of romance rooted in loyalty and escape, while “River Man” leans into summer memories in the Texas Hill Country - where river days stretch long and dance floors come alive at night. At the center of it all, the title track “Texas Soul” serves as a defining statement - blending country, soul, and borderland influences into a sound that reflects both identity and place. “It’s meant to feel familiar, like coming home.”
Cover art for 'Texas Soul'
Edwards is not a newcomer. He has accumulated over 150 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music, earned spots on Spotify editorial playlists including All New Country, Retro Soul, and Soul 'n' the City, and made two guest appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in 2025. Earlier this year, he sold out headline shows in Houston, Austin, and Dallas before the album even officially dropped. He's shared stages with JOHNNYSWIM, The War & Treaty, Saint Motel, and Mac Ayres, and is a Salt Lick Incubator grant winner and Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf artist. The album itself was crowdfunded in under 30 days, raising over $30,000 from fans - a rare signal of grassroots demand in an era of algorithmic discovery. Texas Soul arrived after a multi-year creative journey that included two earlier EP installments, Pasadena (2024) and Concan (2025), both of which built anticipation track by track.
Still, Edwards sees the record less as a career milestone and more as a reflection of where he’s been. “This record lives in the spaces between things,” he says. “Between cultures. Between genres. Between who you were and who you’re becoming.” In Texas, those spaces have always been where the most interesting music is made, and with Texas Soul, Micah Edwards is claiming his place right in the middle of them.
Images 1-5 by Alice Loyaza, Images 6-9 by Kirby Betancourt