Wendy Moten may have launched her career as a pop/R&B artist and taken cool detours into jazz throughout her fascinating career, but her heart clearly belongs to Nashville. Living and immersing in Music City for the past 23 years, the multi-talented vocalist has toured with Faith Hill & Tim McGraw (2005-2018) and Martina McBride (2014-2016) – and since 2016, has been on the road with the legendary Vince Gill (the man she calls “Emperor of Nashville”) when he hasn’t been touring with the Eagles. Their dynamic working relationship, and the 21-time Grammy winner’s long-held appreciation for Wendy’s versatility, culminates now in I’ve Got You Covered, an extraordinary passion project she’s had in her sights for years.  Produced by Gill and featuring the elite among Nashville’s most legendary hit making session musicians, the nine-track collection is the singer’s long-awaited moment in the country music spotlight. Effortlessly and intuitively inhabiting classic but lately little heard songs hand-picked by Gill, Wendy finds her groove – and her spiritual musical home – celebrating the gloried history of traditional country music by singing what she calls “real stories and real songs.”  She brings fresh relevance to tunes from the 60’s and 70’s by Ernest Tubb (“Driving Nails in My Coffin”), Jeannie Seely (“Don’t Touch Me”), Bobby Gentry (“Ode to Billie Joe”), George Jones (“Walk Through This World With Me”), Jeff & Sheri Easter (“Going Away Party”), Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner (“Each Season Changes You”), Tammy Wynette (“Til I Get It Right”) and Webb Pierce and Mel Tills (“I Ain’t Never”). Wendy and Gill also share a beautiful duet re-imagining of the Linda Ronstadt heartbreaker “Faithless Love.” The two had previously paired for “True Love” on the 2018 all-star compilation Muscle Shoals: Small Town, Big Sound.  When Wendy joined Gill’s band, the first person she told about her dream to record a country album was Paul Franklin, one of the most recorded pedal steel guitarists in history. Franklin casually mentioned it to Gill, piquing his interest and prompting Gill to invite Wendy over to his home for discussions that led to a commitment to produce the sessions that evolved into I’ve Got You Covered. In addition to Franklin, the project features stalwarts Willie Weeks (bass), Richard Bennett (guitar), Fred Eltringham (drums), Charlie Judge (strings), Jeff Taylor (accordion) and the horn section of saxphonists Mark Douthit and Doug Moffett, trombonist Barry Green and trumpeter Mike Hayes.  “Vince set dates to record the project a few months after we first talked about it,” Wendy says. “Though we discussed some material during that first meeting, he surprised me by choosing completely different songs for me and the band to do on the actual days of the session. I knew the band guys, having played on countless hits over the years, were up for that, and I was determined to not be the weakest link and rise to the challenge. Vince was glad I didn’t know the songs because this ensured they would sound spontaneous and fresh. He wanted me to jump right in.  “I read the lyrics, made notes, listened to each original version twice and then it was up to me to make each song my own,” On the plus side, doing them on the fly meant I wouldn’t over think them and try to be too perfect. It was my time to own this style, and Vince and this iconic band were relieved and happy h with my delievery. I thought, this is what Ella Fitzgerald must have felt like when she was in a room with the greatest musicians of her era. Just as they knew she could bring the goods, this band respected me. Listening back, I realized that every song Vince chose that day was the right one for me. It’s like we opened to what the universe brought and let it flow.”  In addition to touring with major artists, Wendy set the stage for her emergence as a bona fide country artist with numerous live performances in Music City over the past few years. She made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry in April 2019 and played three more times there before a showcase at 3rd & Lindsley, one of Nashville’s premier live venues, for the release of I’ve Got You Covered in February 2020. During this time, she also headlined on the Opry stage at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. In 2018 and 2019, Wendy was a featured artist in the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum’s Musician’s Spotlight series. Last year, Gill invited her to become a the 11th member of the Grammy award winning western swing band The Time Jumpers – a institution launched by the town’s top studio musicians in 1998 - at their weekly sold-out shows at 3rd & Lindsley in Nashville. In the fall, no less than James Taylor. Brian May and Steve Lukather (Toto) showed up on different nights because of the bands amazing reputation.  Known affectionately in various industry circles as “The Voice,” the multi-talented Memphis born performer launched her career with a self-titled 1992 EMI album that included the ballad “Come In Out Of The Rain,” which reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and later hit the Top Ten on the UK singles chart. The singer opened for Michael Bolton on his North American stadium tours and became popular in Japan when she performed sold-out concerts at the famed Budokan, hosted by David Foster. After several more well received albums (including one produced by Foster), Wendy diversified and launched a new phase of her career recording guest duets with Michael McDonald (“No Love To Be Found”), Kirk Whalum (“All I Do”), Peabo Bryson (“My Gift Is You”), Larry Carlton (“I Still Believe”) and Julio Iglesias (“Just Walk Away”), the latter whom she toured with for over 15 years.  Moten’s most recent album prior to I’ve Got You Covered was a contemporary jazz set titled Timeless: Wendy Moten Sings Richard Whiting

“One of the best singer-songwriters of our time” – Pop Culture Classics Maia Sharp’s 10th solo album, Tomboy is the sound of shifting perspective. Released on Sept. 12, it’s an ultra authentic Americana-adjacent record steeped in quiet gratitude, internal celebration, and a complete embrace of true self. Like all of Sharp’s solo work, Tomboy resonates profoundly by being so real, so personal, and so eloquently written. Tomboy finds multi-instrumentalist Sharp revisiting her famously compelling songcraft and relatable lyricism with a more rhythmic and playful approach – like the tingling joy of stepping into the unknown, secure in the belief that, whatever happens, all will be okay. It’s also her first serious hands-on foray into digital sound, a new fascination with her OP-1 Field mini synth lacing Sharp’s traditionally organic instrumentation with fresh sonic nuances and nooks. Raised in Los Angeles and lately based in Nashville, Sharp is the daughter of anthropologist Sharon Bays and Grammy-winning songwriter Randy Sharp (Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt etc.). Initially influenced by Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Simon, and her dad, Maia’s 30-year career has included writing songs for the likes of Trisha Yearwood (including recent single “The Wall Or The Way Over”), Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal (including recent single “Junkyard Dog”), Cher, Raitt, and Art Garfunkel, while simultaneously earning a sizeable cult following and consistent critical acclaim for her own releases.  Sharp’s 2021 album Mercy Rising rose from the aftermath of a two-decade marriage, while 2023’s Reckless Thoughts looked back at that chapter from the other side, absorbing lessons learned and exploring her subsequent move to Tennessee. Tomboy retains her signature poetic, confessional lyricism, expertly crafted songs, and a supple, finely grained timbre described by Ink 19 magazine as “like a snuggly hug from a close friend.” This time, Sharp’s songs come from a period of, overall, perhaps unexpected contentment: relishing her nurturing creative community in Nashville; navigating single life in the age of dating apps; and very consciously appreciating her lot. The latter sentiment has been significantly shaped by Sharp’s long involvement with Songwriting with Soldiers, a non-profit that pairs veterans, first responders and law enforcement with pro songwriters to create music about whichever part of their experience they choose to share. “The work I’ve had the privilege of doing with Songwriting with Soldiers has put me in a space that you can come back from anything,” mulled Sharp. “And the things that I thought ranked as a problem just don’t qualify as a problem anymore in the real scheme of things.” In contrast to prior albums where Sharp liked to get all the musicians involved in the same room to track the songs before bringing them back to her studio, this time she shut herself away until the tunes were almost fully formed. Noticing that the first few she wrote like this were rhythm-forward pieces propelled by groove, Sharp ran with this approach for the entire album. Only she didn’t want traditional kick-and-snare drums involved. Instead, she generated hard-to-define percussive sounds on found objects and using her new favorite synth, and challenged percussionist Eric Darken (Bon Jovi, Carrie Underwood etc.) to delve deep into his vast collection of global and improvised instruments. “He went to town,” Sharp recalled. “For each song he’d send me somewhere between ten and twenty tracks named things like ‘broom rattle,’ ‘hubcap,’ and ‘coffee bag’ – and it was always so cool!” This bold approach permeates Tomboy’s ten tracks, giving the album and aura all its own and moods that sway between here-and-now introspection and semi-celebratory nostalgia without ever resorting to crutches of big beats or bombast. Self-produced at her home studio, with Sharp handling many of the instruments, Tomboy is also embroidered by talents from her circle: co-writers, featured artists, and contributing players including steel guitar from her dad on “Only Lucky,” electric guitar by Joshua Grange (Sheryl Crow, k.d. lang etc.); and stacked harmonies from the Grammy-nominated Garrison Starr on a crystalline rendition of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”   First single “Tomboy” grew out of Sharp and co-writer Emily Kopp jokingly trading photos from their “tomboy” childhoods – an idea that carries over into the song’s lovingly nostalgic video (a second video will be created around photos submitted by fans). “‘Tomboy’ is looking back on being a tomboy my whole life and, fairly recently, coming to a place where I can completely celebrate it,” Sharp explained. “There are these moments where I look at my young self and think, ‘what a fearless little sh*t I was’ and also, ‘wow, what a scared little sh*t I was.’ It oscillated until I fully accepted that this is who I am, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Move on.” With Sharp not in a relationship, she drew upon co-writer Emily West’s early-stage love affair at the time as inspiration for wonderfully delicate second single “Is That What Love Does,” an exquisite, multi-faceted vocal performance exploring the condition of deep human connection with rare candor and insight. Third single “Only Lucky” channels core Tomboy themes of appreciation for where you find yourself and embracing perspective shift (Sharp uses the example of being frustrated in a traffic jam only to realize that its cause is a fatal accident, immediately putting trivial pouting in its place.) Following Tomboy’s release show at L.A.’s intimate Hotel Café on Sept. 12, Sharp’s touring behind the album will include Sisters Folk Festival in Oregon later that month, and a Nashville show for the city’s Lightning 100 radio station, Nashville Sunday Nights at Third & Lindsley, featuring the musicians who performed on Tomboy, on Oct. 5. Videos are being created for all of the album’s singles alongside shorter visualizers for every track. “I always want somebody to feel the kind of connection to my music that I feel when I’m listening to music I love,” Sharp concluded. “I just have to put my real self out there and hope that someone connects with it.”

Caitlin Evanson is a classically trained violinist who has traveled the world playing violin and guitar and singing background vocals behind Multi-Grammy winning superstar Taylor Swift. With Swift's tours, Evanson performed nightly for tens of thousands of fans in sold-out stadiums and arenas around the globe, demonstrating her versatility as an artist and a performer with six instrument and four costume changes over the course of each two-hour show. In her seven years with Swift, Caitlin has performed live for millions of television viewers around the globe, playing violin and singing background vocals on dozens of high-profile shows. She counts among her many television credits the Academy Awards, the Grammy Awards, the European Music Awards, the American Music Awards, the Country Music Association Awards, the MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, 60 Minutes, Good Morning America, the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Caitlin is a versatile vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who plays mandolin in addition to violin and rhythm electric and acoustic guitar. During her tenure with Swift, Caitlin has shared a stage with a number of high-profile artists, performing with Carly Simon, Stevie Nicks, James Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, John Mayer, Def Leppard, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Sara Bareilles, Nelly, T.I., and Selena Gomez, to name but a few.

Drawing from influences like Sheryl Crow, Lauryn Hill, Shania Twain, Stevie Wonder and Selena, Lindsay James delivers a fresh mix of Coastal Country, R&B and Soul. With a sound that radiates honesty and authenticity, her Texas charm, discerning sense of style, and alluring spunk will quickly draw you in. But it’s James’ infectious energy, unwavering faith, and relatability that will quickly make you fall in love with the Houston, TX native. Lindsay’s effortless sense of style and unassuming charm has landed her collaborations with brands like Imogene + Willie, Wheatley Vodka, Fireball, Sazarak with more on the horizon.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Nashville’s best-kept secret: Hannah Dasher.  When Dasher takes the stage, you see a country star who was born to entertain.  What you don’t see is what it took her to get to that stage. “In order to pay my band, I had to start cleaning houses and sell all my guitars, including the first and only one my daddy ever gave me. For years, I wrote songs and played shows on borrowed guitars,” Dasher recalls. “Eventually, I scrubbed enough toilets to buy my first Gibson.”  Aside from Hannah’s work ethic, her strong, non-conforming, swaggy lyrics set her apart from her peers early on, earning her the nickname Hannah Damn Dasher. Accompanying her big hair and her larger-than-life personality is a voice that’s even bigger. Listen closely and you’ll hear remnants of Lorrie Morgan, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin and Alan Jackson. It all makes for a sound that’s familiar -- like your favorite 90’s country -- yet uniquely fresh.   In fact, that fresh take on the familiar further sets Dasher apart from every other country music hopeful who moves to Nashville to chase the neon dream. Her carefully crafted songs, classically country voice and presence on stage give her a leg up in a genre where fitting in just wasn’t a good fit.   And already, it’s starting to pay off. During the quarantine summer of 2020, Dasher decided to try out her comedic, country music-infused cooking series, "Stand By Your Pan" on TikTok. Within six months, her platform grew from 12,000 followers to over a million. “People appreciate that I’m authentically unfiltered Hannah, and I’m very confident in who God made me to be,” she says.  Quite the entertainer beyond the kitchen, the triple threat is now a Fender Next Artist, and the face of the new 2021 Telecaster coming this fall. “Jaren Johnston (from the band The Cadillac Three) gave me my first electric guitar a few years ago and said, ‘Now here. Learn it!’ So I did. I don’t know the notes, I just play by ear.” While Dasher’s ascent has been almost a decade in the making, someone once told her, “Reba wasn’t built in a day.” So she’s comfortable with the slow climb, because she’s surrounded herself with a Nashville family of songwriters, musicians, producers and industry allies who push her to be better. “So many people have had instrumental talks with me about getting out of my own way. It’s hard to relinquish control of your art and to navigate that, while keeping everyone around me inspired.” Her latest release The Half Record -- due out July 9 -- is the music that Dasher is very proud to be sharing with the world. “I like to leave things better than I found them. This is so much bigger than me,” she shares.  Being born and raised near Savannah, Georgia, Dasher likes to say that she’s been keeping country country since 1989. And while she did have some rock and Motown influences in the mix, the cassettes she wore out when she was growing up were Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits, Clint Black’s Killin’ Time and Alan Jackson’s A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love). Now that she’s fully immersed in the grown-up life of a country singer-songwriter, Dasher admits that from a very young age, she was not merely a fair-weather fan. She was the kind of fan who made country music her life’s mission. “I didn’t like to read books, but I’d read song lyrics and liner notes front to back. I was that nerdy kid who knew who Keith Stegall was when I was 8 years old,” she admits. “And I always wanted to be a country singer. Hell, I practiced my CMA Awards speeches in front of my bathroom mirror with a hairbrush as a little girl.” Once she’d moved to Nashville after graduating from college, Dasher balanced her work at Bass Pro Shops with her work honing her songwriting craft. It paid off just a year and a half after she arrived, when she signed a publishing deal in 2012.But it wasn’t until 2017 that she signed with Sony Music Nashville. “I knew I wanted to be a singer, but then I discovered songwriting,” Dasher recalls. “Then I thought, ‘Maybe I want both. Maybe I don’t just want to be Reba McEntire. Maybe I want to be Alan Jackson as well.’ It took five years between my publishing and record deals because I felt like I couldn’t be the kind of artist I wanted to be until the songs were in place.” “I was loading up my gun for the gun fight,” she says of the years she spent learning how to trust her pen. “I even had an early cut with Brad Paisley -- a co-write with Paisley, Chris DuBois and Brent Anderson -- called ‘Go to Bed Early.’ It was an idea I'd started working on right around the time I got fired from Bass Pro Shop.” Once Sony discovered and then signed Dasher, she says, her team was careful about the timing of her releases, because in country music, timing can be everything. “They never made me feel like I wasn’t enough,” the CMT Next Women of Country says. And now that the time is right, Dasher is all in. She was born to entertain, and now she’s devoted 32 years of hard work to perfecting her art. It shows at all her shows. Hannah Damn Dasher, indeed. 

Larissia Murphy is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter and artist known for her roots, Americana, and country-influenced music.

Breann Young is a Nashville based songwriter with notable cuts scattered over the past ten years. 2024 will see Breann releasing her debut record as an artist entitled TESTIMONY. As a member of the LGBT community, Breann is committed to empowering women, progressing equality for all, and singing her truth without altering pronouns.

Singer from Milwaukee, WI Previously of Luella and The Sun

In a world of imitators and social media facades, BELLES (Kelli Belles) stands out as an artist unapologetically true to herself. Hailing from Omaha and now based in Nashville, BELLES brings a Midwest grit and authenticity to everything she does, balancing small-town roots with big-stage ambition. Her voice is as striking as her presence—effortlessly blending a dreamy, modern edge with the timeless soul of country music’s golden era. 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark year, highlighted by her remarkable self-penned song “Son of Jolene,” featuring global music icon Dolly Parton.“The country music legend, 80, tells PEOPLE, ‘When I heard ‘Son of Jolene,’ I thought it was very clever. No one had ever thought of it that way.’” Releasing on April 17, rising star BELLES steps into country music tradition with a bold, imaginative follow-up to one of the genre’s most iconic songs. Reflecting on the moment she learned that Parton wanted to join her for the final recording, the 26-year-old said, “I could die happy now.” — The Sun Like Dolly, BELLES is a songwriter first, with over 100M+ cumulative streams across her catalog. Her song “Crazy As Me” peaked at #3 on the iTunes Country Charts in 2025, momentum that carried her across the country on her headlining Crazy As Me Tour, selling out several venues. Her 1.5M followers on social media are drawn to her electric live performances and vivid storytelling—sometimes humorous, sometimes deeply emotional. Inspired by legends such as Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, BELLES reimagines classic country for today. Her songs feel pulled straight from real life, creating a connection with everyone in the room. The Rocky Mountain CMA Female Vocalist is embarking on a 24-city national headlining run this summer, the Songs & Stories Tour. Venues include Stoney’s, The Bitter End, Last Exit Live, Gruene Hall, Eddie’s Attic, and Tractor Tavern. BELLES is booked by WME, managed by Red Light Management, signed to East Music Row Records and Deluge Music Publishing. She is currently recording her debut album while building momentum toward what is shaping up to be a breakout year.