A diverse mix of American roots music, out-of-the-box pop flourishes, gospel harmonies, and barroom rock & roll, Charlie Treat spotlights a songwriter whose left-of-center music redraws the lines between genre and generations. His latest release The Comet is a collection of songs whose paradoxical twists and turns are as unique as the man who wrote them. Raised on a farm in New England, Charlie grew up listening to the music of his working-class surroundings — Delta blues, country classics, work songs, and Bob Dylan records — before traveling the country as a busker, accompanied by his acoustic guitar and 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass. After a Kerouac-worthy series of milestones and mishaps led him back to the Northeast, he established himself as one of the region’s folksinging heavyweights before heading south to Nashville, where he found a new home in a city that had become synonymous with Americana music. Charlie easily fit into that musical community, even as his own songs ventured into the genre’s outermost orbits.

Rorey Car­rol­l’s sound rolls in low and pow­er­ful with the feel­ing of a Taran­tino film for the ears. A new kind of “Coun­try West­ern Folk-n-Roll” With mu­si­cal roots in the blue­grass world, she has de­vel­oped her sound into some­thing unique and bold pulling from rock/​amer­i­cana/​folk in­flu­ences. As an writer, Car­rol­l’s strength is show­ing beauty in every­thing, from smoky bar rooms to the lit­tered streets. She not only seeks those places out, but paints them in gor­geous Tech­ni­color with the voice of one who has been there. Her song­writ­ing de­liv­ers the hon­est sub­tlety of liv­ing the life of a gypsy, while still long­ing for the sim­plic­ity of small town hap­pi­ness.