Cordovas are Joe Firstman, Lucca Soria, Toby Weaver, and Graham Helm. Out of Madison, TN, Cordovas' sound is based in harmony, song, and musicianship. Firstman released two albums on Atlantic Records in the early 2000s, including the acclaimed "War of Women." "Baby Genius," 24-year-old songsmith, Des Moines' Lucca Soria, sings and plays guitar. Redondo Beach, California's Graham Helm is on drums. The 25-year-old Berklee College of Music dropout also sings and pens tunes for the group. Toby Weaver, also an original Cordova and American Folk music aficionado, plays guitar and sings. The band spent the past three winters on the Baja in in Mexico writing and demoing songs after producing their own festival, Tropic of Cancer in Todos Santos. Their forthcoming album was produced by two-time Grammy nominee Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids. "Cordovas wring new life from older influences, hoisting their freak flag high..." - Rolling Stone

One of the best Americana Singer Songwriters is over in the UK with his band and will be performing a run of dates for Black Deer Live. Jarrod Dickenson was a highlight on the Ridge Stage at Black Deer Festival, so these shows will be in high demand.   If Jarrod Dickenson's third studio album, BIG TALK sounds like a mighty roar of defiance, that's not a design choice or a marketing decision. The big Texan is settling scores all over town and he means every f*cking word. So what happened in the years since the release of Dickenson's soulful sophomore long-player, Ready the Horses, to have turned this honey-voiced southern gentleman into a brawler? After a major label deal-gone-bad threatened to choke off his career and Covid complications left him with a life-long medical condition Dickenson would have certainly been forgiven for retreating to his Nashville home to lick wounds and maybe write a collection of introspective self-pity anthems. Instead, the hardships and infuriation of recent years have only added steel to the resolve of an artist already willing to do it the hard way, prepared to stand in the face of a music business that shows dwindling regard for the brand of artistry that first inspired him to pick up a guitar and sing for his life. This album represents Dickenson's most direct and uncompromising body of song writing to date, and his decision to occupy the producer's chair has injected BIG TALK with a drive and coherence that compliments the muscle of its material.   Dickenson now exists as a fiercely independent artist, a look that suits him well and allows his creativity to follow whatever path it damn well pleases. Nowhere is this attitude better encapsulated than in the bluesy rock and roll growl of his ferocious new album BIG TALK.