New Appalachian Music
Our newest full-length album, I Am Your Neighbor, is available everywhere!! Thanks so much to our wonderful bandmates Kevin Kehrberg and Bennett Sullivan, our producer Jon Weisberger, and all the folks at Organic Records for their support. You can purchase the album on our STORE page or stream it to your hearts content HERE!
"Chestnut Mountain" is a song I wrote about our family homeplace in Wilkes County, NC. My late grandfather, bluegrass fiddler Jim Shumate, was born there in 1921. There is so much history on that mountain. When I was young, the whole area was relatively remote and undeveloped aside from a few almost impassable roads. Later, a developer came in and tried to get my grandparents to sell their part, but to no avail. To my grandparents, that land was priceless. I'm so thankful that they held out and …
We're excited to announce that our newest single on Organic Records, "Paper Crowns” is streaming everywhere now! STREAM IT HERE “We started writing Paper Crowns on our daughter Cady’s fifth birthday, a cold and rainy day in February. I was feeling nostalgic for her younger years, as five felt like a big turning point in her transition from toddlerhood to school age. Little did we know how much her life (and ours) would change in the coming year, and how the loss of early childhood …
