Shannon Hudson was born in Wisconsin, moved to Houston, and went to college in Southern California, before settling in the Austin, TX area in 2007, where he currently resides. He started playing piano in 4th grade, but it was during his sophomore year in college that Shannon lived in Germany. “My Grandmother bought me a guitar so I could have ...

Kim Edwards resides in the little village of North Hampton, PA, “for reference, if you listen to Billy Joel, it’s near Allentown,” she clarified. The now stay-at-home mom said she’s, “always been doing music, off and on, for the last 15 to 20 years. It certainly ebbs and flows, but with this new album coming out, it’s flowing a little ...

Dayton Ohio native, guitarist, Tim Tye, has been honing his music craft since his high school days. A fan of Americana traditions, his style leans hard in that direction, as evident on his first three albums; Dark Stretch, A Few Good Years, and the third project, Last Hope For The Modern World. “Like most musicians, when I was in high ...

Originally gaining attention as the front man for Boston punk trio, The Spikes, in the early ’80s, Digney Fignus, is a genre-defying American singer-songwriter, bandleader, and producer, whose career has taken him from the underground punk clubs of Boston, to the top of the national Americana charts. Digney grew up in Lexington MA, and currently resides in Cape Cod. He ...

Andy Bernstein (AKA Andy B) is a veteran of the New Brunswick, NJ Roots Rocker scene from the mid-80s as the primary singer/songwriter for the six-album VooDUDES. “New Brunswick had an incredible music scene,” he reflected. “The downtown area had gone to pot, and the only people that went there at night were the people that were into music. Bands ...

Pam Linton grew up in rural central Minnesota (St. Stephen, specifically) and she says, “In that little-bitty town, music was what entertained us.” Pam knew very early on that she wanted to be directly involved with the making of that music. As a matter of fact, she says, “I told my second grade teacher I was going to be a ...

Corey Hunt and Todd Allmon, primary songwriters for Corey Hunt and the Wise, were high school buddies; but the story of their being in a band together doesn’t follow the typical template for this kind thing. Corey didn’t pick up guitar and start writing until college, and Todd only decided to take up playing music after much time spent supporting ...

These days, Kyle Davis is enjoying an extended second act as a singer-songwriter. In his previous musical life, he achieved a level of success many artists strive for but never grasp. He has also experienced the vicissitudes of the music industry firsthand. As for the origin of his creativity, Kyle says, “I was bitten by the bug early on,” and ...

Rock Hearts is a bluegrass group based in the south—the southern part of New England, that is. Despite their physical distance from the southern Appalachian center of bluegrass, their dedication to the musical traditions of the genre places them squarely in its musical territory. According to the band’s lead singer and guitarist Alex MacLeod, “We are a New England-based bluegrass ...

Singer-songwriter, horse breeder/trainer and occasional chef Mike Schikora says “I always keep plates spinning; life’s much too short to have one focus.” His latest album, Outlaw from the South (his third solo effort, released July 2024) reflects this diversity of interests, in that, according to Mike, it has no single overall theme. “This is the first time I went without ...