Keeping up with Brad’s trend I decided to write about another band outside of Nashville. (Brad is currently in Alabama helping with the Tornado relief efforts.) [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week’s band comes to us from Georgia; Little Tybee.  Their name comes from a tiny island off the coast of their [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Last week I mentioned how every artist has someone who has inspired them. Some create an album almost indistinguishable from the person they’re being influenced by, while others take bits & pieces from those musicians who inspire them to create something strangely familiar but uniquely their own. [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Every musician has someone that has inspired him or her to pursue a career in music. Many female artists in Nashville, at least those pursuing a career as a singer/songwriter, have been inspired by this week’s Free Music Friday artist, Katie Herzig. Katie Herzig is originally from [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] |Download Nashville is a songwriter’s town; I’m not saying anything new with that one. There is just something about this town that contributes itself well to music that reaches the heart because it just gets in the blood (to steal a line from Trent Dabbs’ song “Neil Young”). [...]

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download This week’s installment of Free Music Friday features Kyle Wyley’s “This Mess,” a cut from his 2010 Album Simple Poor Boy. Wyley’s voice fits into the same vein as such southern story-tellers like Willie Nelson, but has a much more somber timbre. The album plays like a [...]