Drew kennedy

Drew Kennedy’s career spans two and a half decades, 11 albums, one novel, and millions of miles as a singer, songwriter and traveling troubadour, cultivating the kind of wild artistic freedom only sown by a rare blend of grassroots trust and industry approval. Raised outside of Philadelphia, Kennedy played baseball in college in Virginia, then found his way to New Braunfels, Texas, nestled between two rivers and San Antonio and Austin. Nashville called next, and while Kennedy and his wife Holly, an artist and art teacher, have opted to raise their family in the Texas Hill Country, Kennedy spends a lot of time in Tennessee writing in Music Row publishing houses. Lori McKenna, Patty Loveless and Jason Eady, Travis Meadows, Walt Wilkins, Cody Johnson, Nate Smith, Keith Urban, Morgxn, Forest Blakk, RaeLynn, Tyler Hubbard and Brantley Gilbert, Wade Bowen, Randy Rogers Band, William Clark Green, Ben Danaher, and more have recorded his songs. Entrepreneurial and a believer in deep ties to places and people, he’s also launched the Red River Songwriters’ Festival and the Marathon Songwriters Festival. Kennedy’s 11th studio album, released in May of 2025, consists solely of new songs Kennedy wrong alone, which he called “such a challenge artistically that the end result is beyond my wildest dreams.”

Josh Grider

“The hardest thing for people to admit about themselves is that they’re going to change,” says Josh Grider. The country stalwart knows, because he’s done it himself. When you release eight albums, tour the country and abroad, sign publishing deals, top the Texas radio charts, and start a family all in just over a decade, you’re going to come out different than when you went in. On upcoming new record Good People, the New Mexico native turns the lessons he’s learned so far into an impressive collection of catchy, substantive country tunes — the kind that draw parallels between Grider and artists like Kacey Musgraves and Steve Earle. But Grider delivers them with a smooth neo-traditional baritone to rival Joe Nichols and melodic hooks that, when they hit you just right, feel timeless on first listen.

wade bowen

Two decades and more than 4,000 shows into his career, Wade Bowen has become synonymous with country music, songwriting, and captivating live performances, and for good reason. An artistic descendant of American icons like Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen and more, Bowen is an important voice in a legacy of Texas troubadours stretching back more than 50 years. Texas Radio agrees, as he scored five awards at the 2025 Texas Regional Radio Music (T3R) Awards, including Male Vocalist of the Year and Single of the Year for the third year in a row.

Revered as one of the genre’s finest and most authentic modern voices, Bowen’s approach is rooted in tradition but also stands on the creative cutting edge. His focus remains on writing unique songs with a literary quality and shifting his sonic territory to match his life. More than a dozen albums have shown his musical diversity – including ten studio sets, four live collections, and an ongoing series of buddy-country hits with fellow Texan, Randy Rogers. 

In 2024, the singer-songwriter released his tenth studio album, Flyin, showcasing his diverse musical range and hard-hitting songwriting, as well as a cast of respected features that add unique elements throughout. Following the album’s release, Billboard proclaimed Bowen a “Red-Dirt Leader,” while American Songwriter called it “a tour de force from a guy who doesn’t believe in being hemmed into a single genre.”

Bowen continues to perform more than 200 dates a year across the U.S., solidifying his dedication to connecting with fans through his live performances.

ADAM WRIGHT

Adam Wright writes “songs about people”, as he states in his utterly gut wrenching and masterfully written song “The Banker” from his second solo album ‘Dust’. A true singer/songwriter, Wright colors in the shapes of characters so numerous and diverse you’d need a series of novels to tell their full stories.

With two Grammy nominations under his belt ("So You Don't Have To Love Me" - Best Country Song/Alan Jackson, "All The Trouble" - Best American Roots Song/Lee Ann Womack), Wright continues to be a songwriter's songwriter. His songs have been recorded by Nashville giants like Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Lee Ann Womack as well as lyric luminaries like Robert Earl Keen, Brandy Clark and Bruce Robison.

He is capable of Mark Twain humor ("Hard Work"/Lonesome River Band) and Leonard Cohen gravity ("The Lifeguard"/Adam Wright - 'Terms of Agreement', "Dark Life"/Adam Wright - 'Dust'). His most recent release, 'Nature of Necessity' is an 18 song behemoth and masterclass of song craft and storytelling.

“You can break the world of songwriters into an old growth jungle of subspecies. That jungle includes copiers, mumblers, formatters, word lovers, talkers, spirited creators, master craftsman, uncontrollably gifted, and wildly brilliant geniuses. 

Adam Wright occupies the wildly brilliant genius place in that jungle.”

—Robert Earl Keen

Leslie jordan

After comprising one-half of the Grammy-Nominated All Sons & Daughters from 2010-2018, Nashville-based artist, Leslie Jordan has spent the last seven years writing for and investing in other artists. She has done this primarily through “The Fold,” a non-profit she co-founded in 2017 as a creative community for artists in all genres and walks of life to find safety and belonging through creative writing workshops and retreats. It was that same year when Leslie fostered the desire to return to her Americana roots and began to conceptualize her next album, adapting the lost writings & poetry of her mother’s estranged father who passed away in 1995. Leslie has always been a songwriter and a storyteller, but after combing through decades of her grandfather’s words, she now knows why it courses through her veins. Although Leslie is no stranger to the music, this album marks her debut endeavor into the Folk/Americana world.

kelley mickwee

Kelley Mickwee has spent the past two decades making a name for herself in her home state of Texas. Within the past few years, she’s re-focused her efforts on her solo work, beginning with a set of singles in 2021 recorded with singer-songwriter Jonathan Tyler. This set of four singles mark Mickwee’s first original releases since 2014’s You Used to Live Here, her debut solo record. Although she was already a seasoned artist at that point with a decade’s worth of experience under her belt, up until then all of her performing and recording experience had been as part of a unit, as one-fourth of the acclaimed Americana group The Trishas, with Jamie Lin Wilson, Savannah Welch and Liz Foster, previously one-half of the Memphis-based duo Jed and Kelley and most recently as part of Kevin Russell’s Shinyribs’ Shiny Soul Sisters. But sometimes what gets lost in the shuffle of all the well-deserved acclaim for what she adds to other artist’s work is the music she makes in her own right. Kelley released her sophomore album, Everything Beautiful, in September of 2024 and is currently touring behind this release.  

Charlie stout

West Virginia native Charlie Stout draws from experience as a photographer, filmmaker, and composer to animate cinematic lyrics through carefully crafted storytelling.

From the mythical dark hollows of the Appalachian Mountains to the magnificent deserts of West Texas and beyond, Charlie Stout's words, music, and images evoke contemplation of life and death on the New American Frontier.

davis naish

Grammy nominated and three time Gold Record recipient (“Stick That In Your Country Song” by Eric Church, “MGNO” by Russell Dickerson, “Let Em Go” by Matt Hansen), Davis Naish is a Songwriter/Producer/Multi-Instrumentalist born and raised in Nashville, TN.

Currently residing in Los Angeles, CA, he has written and recorded songs with Forest Blakk, NEEDTOBREATHE, Maggie Rose, Katelyn Tarver, Joshua Bassett, Hayd, Thomas Day, Goldford, Anna Graves, and Drew Kennedy (of whom he cites as his largest influence both in his music and in his journey through life) among many others.