Dishel was born in the Soviet Union before relocating to New York with his family when he was only two. Throughout the 80’s and 90’s Dishel was influenced by MTV and the likes of Motley Crue, Poison and the rest of the glam metal scene in his early years before branching into Culture Club, Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Duran Duran as his musical horizons began to expand. Eventually meeting Adam, Kimya and would eventually be The Moldy Peaches, it was set that Dishel would spend his life pursuing music and art. In more recent years Dishel is releasing music under Only Son and can be found touring with The Moldy Peaches on their highly anticipated reunion tour this year!

NYC-based artist Breanna Barbara’s second album ‘Nothin’ But Time’ (out November 11 on Fuzz Club) is a raw and immersive trip through the sounds of psychedelic rock and blues, anchored by her forceful vocals and unforgettable songwriting. Sporting a sound that feels classic and of-the-moment at the same time, ‘Nothin’ But Time’ sees Barbara plumb new emotional depths as she bursts through every sonic barrier put in her way. Seeking to create mind-expanding music that’s also firmly rooted in the real, ‘Nothin’ But Time’ reflects Barbara’s headlong journey into the world of psychedelic pop by way of hard-driving blues-rock, warped theremin tones and celestial synths. ‘Nothin’ But Time’ arrives following Breanna’s 2016 debut ‘Mirage Dreams’, a trio of critically acclaimed singles (most recently ‘New Moon’) and a number of collaborations with legendary trip-hop vanguard Tricky. As well as joining his US touring band as lead female vocalist, Barbara also did an official rework of his 'When We Die' track and featured on the 2021 Lonely Guest album, ‘False Idols’. Recorded at Nashville’s Bomb Shelter studio with Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray For The Riff Raff), the album features musical contributions from Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather), Tall Juan, Derry DeBorja (Jason Isbell), and Champagne Superchillin’s Ben Trimble and Charles Garmendia.

(From Barabar’s Bandcamp)

Born and raised in the Netherlands, Christine and her family relocated to San Francisco at just the age of three and was surround by music at a very early age. Studying classical voice during her elementary years, Christine eventually began playing guitar and covering the likes of the late Elliott Smith and the rest is history! This month is very exciting for Christine as her new record “Soft Like An Apricot” releases this Friday the 26th! In this interview we explore Christine’s past, future and present, her formative influences, learning to play guitar and eventually writing her own songs, writing and recording process and much more.

West Sussex based folk duo Native Harrow consists of Devin Tuel and Stephen Harms. Both bring together a cosmic partnership that is both consistent in the vain of the greats of the day as well as their poetic justice to express themselves flawlessly! In this interview we explore both of their youths, early influences and what got them in the music, releases such as “Soroses”, “Happier Now”, and “Old Kind Of Magic” as well as what they’ve got cooking this summer.

Born in Inland Empire/San Bernardino County before relocating to Pomona to high school, Flores grew up on The Ramones and the New York Dolls in his formative years before expanded his musical horizons into the more folk/psychedelic realm with groups such as Mark Bolan’s Tyrannosaurus Rex and an early Lemmy Kilmister project called Sam Gopal. Flores eventually met his bandmates and in 2018 the first FGBB LP “Flower Pot” was released. With another record“Strength of Spring”, under their belt, the band had the opportunity to work with legends such as John Dwyer and Ty Segall. This summer the band will be paying a three weekend residency at Gold Diggers In LA!

Born and raised in Charlottesville, VA in the early before relocating to Salem, Perry was influenced by the likes of Johnny and June Carter and church music. But its inevitable that the guitar would find Perry as he is a true virtuoso of instrument and an extension of melodic prose that embodies the likes of Fahey, Basho and Glenn Jones. In this interview we explore Perry’s childhood growing up in Virginia, the element of water playing a huge role in his youth, the relevance of church music in his family, picking up the guitar, releasing records on label Feeding Tube Records as well as his most recent album “What Do You See Everyday?” and much more.

Born in Albany, GA, Pinkston was influenced by baseball and skateboarding in his early youth with the rise of the Tony Hawk epidemic and would eventually find his true love and passion, music. His father was a musician from the golden 70’s and got him into bands like Mott the Hoople and Faces before Pinkton found his way into the country side of things later on. Pinkton participated in a number of groups before meeting his bandmates and eventually forming The Pinkstones in Athens, GA. The band released their 2021 debut “Introduction” and most recently their highly anticipated summer follow up “You Know Who”. In this interview we explore Pinkston’s youth and formative years, getting into country music, forming The Pink Stones, skateboarding, releasing a new record and much more!

Tennessee based rock group Faux Ferocious have been on the scene for years. Having participated in the legendary Nashville scene that consisted of the Infinity Cat family from back in the day, Faux Ferocious are the true underdogs and in this interview we speak to the band’s frontman Terry Kane about growing up in the south, meeting his fellow bandmates, bouncing from Knoxville to Nashville, recording for Infinity Cat, becoming close to the Pilot Light’s Jason Boardman and their most recent record “Pretty Groovy”.

KESMAR’s Always Chasing Rainbows is a bold and inviting new step for Sydney-based musician Nathan Hawes, showcasing an evolution in sound and songwriting that comes with immense personal growth as an artist. There’s a classic feel to these eight songs, with gorgeous melodies steeped in the soft-hued sounds of the 1970s—but Always Chasing Rainbows also sounds equally in step with Hawes’ contemporaries, cementing him as an exciting new voice in modern pop music. Always Chasing Rainbows is the latest move from the already-accomplished Hawes, who took up guitar at a young age and was drawn to music since he was able to sing. After he adopted KESMAR as his recording moniker, Hawes dove deep into the sphere of self- production, gaining tons of analog studio know-how while falling in love with the golden- hued pop-rock he was raised on. “I’m such a sponge—when I find something, I love to learn everything about it,” he says, and after linking up with Tobias Priddle (“He’s the one who taught me how to put the pieces of the puzzle together”) his first EP as KESMAR, Up to You, saw release in 2019. After releasing his dynamic second EP Forever Holiday in 2021, Hawes had planned on recording Always Chasing Rainbows with Priddle — but when Australia went under a second lockdown, he decided to take a different and more hands-on route.

“I’d stay up all night and read interviews of how classic albums were recorded, and then I’d take those ideas into the studio,” he recalls while discussing the road to self-producing the record. “I started getting closer to the sound that I’d heard in my head all these years.” An integral element of bringing those songs to life is Hawes’ analog approach to recording, as he wields musical technologies from the past to craft his utterly timeless sound. “My process of recording and recording on tape is something I practice almost daily at home,” he explains. “It’s a constant cycle — an incredibly simple way of recording that took me many months to learn — but I love the performance element of recording to tape. As I’m recording and playing all of the instruments myself, the tape machine is like a second person making me commit to my own ideas.” And the album title itself draws from that strong sense of commitment that drives Hawes in his musical pursuits. “It’s about that feeling of being constantly dissatisfied, in a good way,” he explains. “Artists are always chasing something else, and for me it’s that song that captures a feeling that I hope to have forever.” While drawing from a wide range of influences from Jeff Lynne, Steely Dan, and the Beach Boys to cultishly beloved Scottish acts like Chris Rainbow and Pilot, Hawes struck out to “make something that was very organic-sounding—very real and raw. In an era where music can sound so perfect, I wanted to make everything sound as imperfect as I could.”

Picking up where Forever Holiday’s warm, impeccably produced tunes left off, Always Chasing Rainbows draws the listener in immediately with a heavenly opening title track featuring vocals from Flore Beneguigui of French disco-pop band L’Imperatrice. Lead single “Out of Luck” features peppy percussion and a lovely, swinging gait, a gem of a song inspired by his girlfriend’s love of ‘60s pop, as well as the aftereffects of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I hated the idea of writing a COVID song, but it just came out,” he explains while talking about the song’s thematic center. “I loved the repetitiveness of the day, but I missed playing shows. I was putting off the things I love because I was waking up later.” As the song takes its final turn, the major-key ending comes to represent, in his words, “Me coming out of everything and realizing it’s all gonna be okay.” “Day by Day” shimmers with a disco-fied touch, its sparkling sound serving as the perfect compliment to the contemplative lyrics. “It’s a break-up song where I’m telling myself I’m gonna be fine,” he explains. “When someone leaves your life, it can be somewhat traumatic to the point where you can forget that you’ll end up being fine.” Then there’s the subtly funky “Is It You I Miss,” adorned with the type of sunny harmonies so key to Hawes’ musical touchstones. “When you listen to so much music from a certain era, it bleeds into your subconscious and your songwriting,” he states while talking about the song’s sound.

“It’s the most true and honest music that I’ve made, because it’s been just me,” Hawes continues while discussing the overall aim of Always Chasing Rainbows, as well as how excited he is for his thrilling new direction to reach the general public. “I wanted to get the best out of me as an artist. Anyone who knows me knows that I’ve wanted to make this sort of music for a long time, and I can’t wait for them to hear it.”

Seth Kauffman creates Floating Action albums; writes, produces, engineers, plays all the instruments. Purposefully dodgesworldly success in pursuit of musical purity- has released 8 albums since 2005. Currently works in the studio and tours with 'dudes who get it' like Jim James, & Dan Auerbach. Has played on albums by Lana Del Rey, Jim James, Ray Lamontagne and Angel Olsen. In this interview we explore Kauffman’s youth growing up in North Carolina on classical music, listening to the likes of Sam Cooke and Robert Johnson, participating in groups in college, forming Floating Action and his most recent project, Dream Sitch, with Michael Nay of Cotton Jones.

Drew Gardner and Jesse Sheppard, the two-guitar duo of Elkhorn, share a musical brotherhood that spans several decades. From their nascent high school socialist-realist post punk band, Mayfirst, to teenage scavenger trips to the Princeton Record Exchange and City Gardens, the two came of age goofing along to the Dead Kennedys, the Butthole Surfers, and Sonic Youth in the dank Jersey/Philly-scene music holes. After college in the nineties Drew moved off to San Francisco and got deep into the free jazz/energy music scene as a drummer, where he collaborated with John Tchicai among many other heavy hitters. Post-college Jesse was transfixed by the modal excursions of ‘70s electric Miles Davis and the exploratory prognostications of King Crimson and Jimi Hendrix. When Drew moved back east in the late ’90s, the two were again in the same place at the same time, and it was only natural to play music together. A few years later Jesse decamped to the Philadelphia suburbs to raise a family and pursue filmmaking, and in the process discovered both American Primitive music—Jack Rose was living in Philly at the time and performing regularly—and his instrument—twelve-string acoustic guitar. Around the same time, Drew picked up the Fender Telecaster again, with an ear toward the extended electric solos of classic rock and a foundation of improvisational practice at his back.

The inherent duality of the band—acoustic/electric, traditional/modern, 12-string/6-string, fingerpicking/plectrum, ostinato/lead—coalesced to create the unified Elkhorn sound. They played their first show in 2013, and put out three official releases over the coming years: Elkhorn (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2016), The Black River (Debacle, 2017), and Lionfish (Eiderdown, 2018). East and West coast tours followed. With the double albums Sun Cycle and Elk Jam (Feeding Tube, 2019) Elkhorn stepped firmly into a series of collaborative efforts that redefined their ever-changing sound. Recording at Black Dirt again, the duo fluidly expanded to include Willie Lane on third guitar and Ryan Jewell on drums and tabla. The following year they returned with The Storm Sessions (Beyond Beyond is Beyond, 2020) and The Acoustic Storm Sessions (Centripetal Force/Cardinal Fuzz, 2020), recorded at Gardner’s Harlem home studio with long-time friend, Turner Williams on shahi baaja and electric bouzouki. The band's truncated March of 2020 tour was documented on the Southern Star cassette (Warhen Records, 2021) and shows the band in full flight with a wide range of guests, including Mike Gangloff of the band Pelt. Later that year The Golden Lag tape (Blue Hole Recordings, 2021) came out, documenting the band's only livestream performance of the pandemic. Jesse and Drew performed from Jesse's home, while Turner joined via WhatsApp from Marseille, France. Elkhorn music unfolds at its own pace. It is music with a point of view and momentum. It begins with an intention to be sincere and fully expressive in the moment, and often results in musical journeys toward transcendence. The duo is multitudes. The duo is one.

-Bio from Elkhorn site

Born in Paris, France, Amelie Rousseaux grew up with a mother who was an opera singe and a father who appreciated more of the rock n’ roll side of things. It was in the stars that Rousseaux would become a musician and artists herself and at the age of 12 her life changed drastically by David Bowie’s stellar “Heroes” album. Prior to Sofia Bolt, Rousseaux participated in a band called The Water Babies and in 2013 she was accompanied by her friend Louise Roam and together the first Sofia Bolt album was made. In this interview we explore Rousseaux’s youth growing up in France, the influence of her mother’s opera background, David Bowie, getting her first electric guitar, starting Sofia Bolt some 10 years ago and much more!

Jennings grew up in the Hillsboro Village in Nashville, TN where he rode skateboards and played with the local neighborhood kids. His parents got him a kid drum set and allowed him to take classical flute lessons, but quickly he transitioned to music of his own, finding something more personal and special within its unmeasurable gifts. He eventually met his close friend and bandmate, Jack Quiggins. The two lived in Knoxville, TN when they first formed T&TRR alongside their other friend, Matt McQueen on drums. The trio would soon meet Luke Schneider and eventually have the opportunity to work with the great Margo Price! In this interview we explore Jennings’ youth growing up, being surrounded by musical neighbors and families, relocating to Knoxville to form T&TRR, working with Margo Price and much more!

Athens, Georgia-based guitarist Shane Parish devotes much of his time to developing his singular and expressive voice as a composer, improviser and songwriter. He is a self-taught musician who communicates through emotion, unexpected melodicism, technical whimsy, a nuanced sense of form, and rich timbral variety, simultaneously drawing from the guitar’s history and aiming for its future. Avant Music News described Parish as “one of the most consistently innovative finger-picking acoustic guitarists in a generation.” In 2016, he was recognized for his solo acoustic efforts by composer John Zorn, who issued the album Undertaker Please Drive Slow on Tzadik Records, hailing it as “a remarkable and soulful acoustic solo project that digs deep into Appalachian roots… At times reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman.” Parish has self-released numerous recordings of folk interpretations in the years since Undertaker. According to All About Jazz, "Parish's deeply personalized spin on roots music transcends any semblances of playing it safe. More importantly, he establishes a musical conduit that pays homage to tradition while unlocking new passageways, enacted with the utmost sincerity." In 2022, he released Liverpool (Dear Life Records), a collection of sea shanties and nautical ballads reimagined for electric guitar.

Folk Radio UK noted, “One of his reasons for making this album was to unlock ‘the code to resonance within the body’, the inscrutable power that exists within worksongs that makes them timeless and uniquely human. It’s safe to say that he has achieved that goal and made a breathtaking and singular album in the process.”Parish also fronts the electric prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, described as “…knotty, instrumental rock that blends punk, prog, jazz, non-Western music and improv into something exhilarating and even awe-inspiring [Wire Magazine]", "possessed of many moments of beauty and mayhem [Pitchfork]", "the kind of musical tug-of-war that sounds as jagged as it is graceful [NPR]", and "music of upfront physicality and twitchy intent [New York Times]”. Their 2004 album, The Same and the Other, (re-issued in 2008 on Tzadik Records) was described by John Zorn as “one of the most intense documents of compositional rock complexity ever recorded,” and “a cult rock masterpiece.” Ahleuchatistas has toured internationally and released nine albums on labels such as Tzadik, International Anthem and Cuneiform Records. In 2022 the band released their head-exploding maximalist 9th album, Expansion, with an all new trio lineup, featuring legendary bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) and drum virtuoso Danny Piechocki.

In recent years, Parish has been performing a collection of original outsider folk songs that combine play-on-words about cognitive dissonance, personal excavation, sweet longing, subtle subversion, moral support, and mourning, with his singular and intricate acoustic guitar inventions. Like the scattershot trajectory of his career—free-folk improvisor, finger-style experimentalist, prog-punk shredder—Parish’s songs integrate a wide range of styles and techniques into well-crafted nuggets of sincerity and whimsy. A blazing country blues about apocalyptic forebodings careens into a mid-tempo minimalist pulse drone, ornamented by ethereal whispers of good intentions. An odd-metered contrapuntal prog-folk psychological thriller depicts the inner tension between multiple selves searching for authenticity. Delicately fingerpicked minor figures cascade beneath a deadpan spoken word poem about the futility of waiting to subvert the system from within. Harmonically rich and meticulously constructed musical eulogies mourn the passing of friends and loved ones, while basking in their eternal presence. The pieces move seamlessly in and out of Parish’s breathtaking instrumental flights of fancy, and candid extemporaneous musings. In the Spring of 2021, Parish received a surprise message from guitarist/composer Bill Orcutt, asking: “Can I send you some music?” Orcutt sent a recording of his forthcoming album Music for Four Guitars, and asked if Parish could transcribe it. Parish produced an 85-page score that was included as a PDF download with purchase of the album, which was released in September 2022.

Subsequently, The Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet formed with Ava Mendoza and Wendy Eisenberg joining Bill and Shane. The group began performing in Spring of 2023. Parish also enjoys improvising with friends and teaching lessons.

-Bio from Pasrish’s site

Born and raised in Nor-Cal, Hostetter was a single child that grew up spending separate time with her parents in different areas of the state. With both households bringing different influences to her childhood, she recalls her mother playing the likes of Johnny Cash, The Beatles and Peter Paul and Mary being very important in her formative years. Hostetter eventually found her own bands such as The Beach Boys, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and the more contemporary, Mac DeMarco. While attending college, she realized she needed more, so related to a commune in Anaheim where her spirit and musical horizon were expanded by the like of Buffalo Springfield, The Dead and Neil Young.

Taking a job at Vibrato, Herb Apert’s Jazz Club in Bel Air, Hostetter met her then boyfriend, Will Worden and the duo began playing music together and would soon meet her now bandmates and friends: Sam Burton, Connor (Catfish) Gallaher, Pierce Gibson, and Noel Friesen. In this interview we explore Hostetter’s youth growing up between two parents, her early influences, moving to a commune, meeting Sam Burton and the gang and her most recent project, Lady Apple Tree.

From Florida to Asheville, NC, McCassim grew up with a very influential home with parents that played the likes of Norah Jones, Fiest, Joni Mitchell and Dixie Chicks. McCassim’s parents got her behind the piano at an early age and by the time she started attending middle school, she was already exploring songwriting. Studying as an engineer major, it was until after graduating that McCassim knew there was something else in the stars for her. In this interview we explore McCassim’s youth growing up in Asheville, her influences, meeting her friend and bandmate Ryan Pollie, opening for Sharon Van Etten and her new EP Dual Twin (“This EP explores themes of family, my relationship with my mother and ultimately belonging. It was all recorded in one take.”) We’re also very excited to be debuting her short documentary surrounding the EP on Primitive Man Soundz!

Born and raised in Stockton, California, Olin was influenced by his parent’s house jams by the likes of John Lennon, Leon Redbone, Carly Simon and Michael Franks in his youth. By the time Olin was in middle school, music truly left its mark on his heart with an introduction to the Repo Man Soundtrack. Groups like Circle Jerks, Suicidal Tendencies, Black Flag, Jonathan Richman and Iggy Pop eventually creeped in as the 1980s punk and hardcore scene revolutionized its youth. Olin formed his very first group in college called The Muse. A group that explored the growing appreciation for country, but in the “alt” vain, but after a change of heart, Olin left this group and eventually met his longtime friend and collaborator, the great Kyle Field of Little Wings. Relocating to Portland, OR in 2000, Olin really began to harness his craft during this time as he explored and expressed his abilities as a songwriter for the next two decades! In this interview we explore Olin’s youth growing up with his sisters, seeing a bong for the first time at an outdoor Herbie Hancock concert, eventually relocating to Portland, his pals and longtime collaborators: Lee Baggett and Kyle Field and his most recent record, Gary Owens, “I Have Some Thoughts” that will be released on Perpetual Doom later this summer!

Born and raised in Atlanta, GA, Plunket grew up with a father who was a preacher and a family that was very musically involved with their church where Plunket played drums. The hardcore scene was very prevalent as Plunket became a teenager and found his community in music before eventually relocating to Nashville, TN in 2010 where participated in his very own projects such as Psychic Hotline with Jessica McFarland and JP5. Plunket eventually met his friend and bandmate, Brian Kotzur and together the two set out to form a band on their own terms. And that was Country Westerns! In this interview we explore Plunket’s youth growing up in Atlanta and Athens, GA before relating to Nashville, TN, forming Country Westerns, becoming close with the Soft Junk folks, signing with Fat Possum, meeting and playing with the great Matt Sweeney and their new record that releases everywhere on April 28th!

Sam Blasucci is best known as one half of Mapache, a Southern California roots-rock duo just as instantly recognizable for their elegant, intertwined guitar parts as they are for their devoted, Nudie-Suit wearing fanbase. But when Blasucci was writing the songs that would become his debut solo record, Off My Stars, he found himself less focused on the guitar and more gravitated toward a different instrument: piano. The mother of Clay Finch, his Mapache bandmate, was getting rid of one, and so Blasucci took the piano, carefully transporting it to his home in Ojai, California, with the help of a few strong friends, including Farmer Dave Scher of Beachwood Sparks (and a Mapache collaborator). “Farmer Dave wasn’t even wearing shoes,” Blasucci remembers, laughing. Once the piano was safely in there, he became deeply attached, playing on it multiple hours a day: “It’s changed the way I think about music, having all the keys laid out in front of me,” he explains. “Having that sort of changed everything.” Also inspired by his recent time riding out the pandemic in New Orleans, where the clubs may have closed, but the music never stopped, Blasucci used that piano to start writing one of the most inspired batches of songs of his career thus far.

New gems like “Turn Yourself Around” and “Sha La La” were developing with a Southern swing and classic songbook sparkle, and when assessing the growing stack of music he was working on, Blasucci realized that there was something about these tunes that wasn’t quite suited for a Mapache record. Infused with an honest, personal perspective about settling into adult life—about developing as a person and a partner and a family member—these songs were straight from the heart, a clear window, recently Windexed, into the life of one of the most talented members of the L.A.-area underground rock scene. Using just as much inspiration from the music of Ronnie Wood and Sade as the films of Ingmar Bergman and the writing of Brian Doyle, Blasucci started to see a vision of songs that are all “fully autobiographical.” Blasucci reached out to songwriter and producer Johnny Payne, and the two decamped to Dan Horne’s Lone Palm Studio, the home/studio where Mapache has in the past both recorded and abided in. Blasucci’s direction to Payne—acting as producer and as multi-instrumentalist, performing on everything from shaker to “guitar pancake”—was simple: no pretense, no affect, no Mr. Cool. This approach is most evident through covers on the record—like a stripped-down, achingly beautiful version of Dido’s ubiquitous “Thank You,” or a New Orleans-porch-worthy version of the Cranberries’ classic “Linger.” “There was nothing ironic or gimmicky about wanting to do those,” notes Blasucci.

“I just really, really love those songs.” Also covered on Off My Stars is a raw take on Jimmy Fontana’s timeless ballad “Il Mondo,” sung in its original Italian by Blasucci, who belts it in a performance that ends with him giving it all he has, his voice cracking as he reaches the song’s epic finale. “Il Mondo” is a song that Blasucci particularly wanted to do as a means to get more in touch with his Italian roots—and this wouldn’t be the only way he’d tap into family on the album. On “Proud of You Dad,” Blasucci dug into his archives for a song that’s he had for some time, originally having written and recorded it just for his father, David Blasucci, a musician who was at one time a touring member in the band Toto, and who has performed and acted in Christopher Guest movies like A Mighty Wind. “If I ever told you this while we were in the same room / I know you would cover your ears and run,” Sam sings over a rustic, campfire acoustic progression. As Sam explains, David was a crucial influence on his taste: “A lot of the underlying styles that influenced the rest of the songs on the record definitely come from what he introduced me to,” Sam says. But Sam is his own man now, writing the new chapters of his own life with an aw-shucks tone that belies his prolific workload. Even through the pandemic—and even with the ongoing backlogs at pressing plants—Blasucci has still managed to put out beloved Mapache records in each of the last three years, and he and the band have no plans to slow down anytime soon. “I’m definitely the type of artist that is constantly creating,” Sam says, matter of fact. “And I can’t seem to really stop.”.

(Bio: Blasucci’s Bandcamp)

Born and raised in Farmersville, OH, Tirey grew up in the country where there were no street lights, typical commitments to get anywhere and hardly anyone around. But this special backdrop that intimidates a lot would eventually lead to Tirey’s love for music, more specifically, songwriting. Influenced by the likes of Conway Twitty and Dwight Yoakam in his early years, Tirey eventually started his very own band after high-school, Wes Tirey and The Easy Hearts and soon after relocated to Dayton for more action. With a few releases already under his belt at the time, Tirey released “I Stood Among Trees” with Dying For Bad Music and soon after his highly antiquated follow up “O, Annihilator” on Full Spectrum Records. Tirey now currently resides in Asheville, NC where he continues to work on music with his most recent music project, “Michael Ondaatje's “collected works of Billy the Kid” that will be released by the fine folks over at Sun Cru. In this interview we explore Tirey’s youth growing up in Ohio, his early influences, seeing Brooks and Dunn back in the day, living in Asheville, elements of songwriting, records he’s released over the years and his most recent project he’s absolutely stoked to share with the world!