Not content with just being part of indie supergroup boygenius, Julien Baker also announced, in November 2024, that she’d linked up with TORRES for two 2025 shows, with a collaborative country album also rumored to be en route. Just as importantly, the two have also come together to create this Winter Warmers playlist, which features an appropriately A-list cast of country stars who have shaped and inspired them. “These are songs we grew up on, that have informed our writing and singing since the beginning,” Baker and TORRES—real name Mackenzie Scott—tell Apple Music. But the songs here are more than just the artists’ guiding lights musically; they are also what “anyone coming over for a dinner party can likely expect to hear on the night’s playlist, that are downright fun listening and even more fun to try and sing along to.” And most significantly, these are the sounds that they’ll always have on during winter festivities, “music that feels woven into the fabric of time spent with friends and family during the holidays.” “I love the opportunity winter gives me to turn inward,” adds Scott. “When the fauna moves underground to hibernate and the flora goes dormant, I find the conditions best for writing. An ambient guitar wash might be used to make a cold wind, a sparkling pair of notes running through a pitch shifter could become a blanket of ice and snow, some lightly plucked harmonics could be made into Christmas lights.” So dig into tracks by artists including Shania Twain, Linda Ronstadt, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline as you settle in for all the season has to offer.