Paul Burch's thoroughly modern yet instantly classic songs have attracted fans and collaborators from Rock to Bluegrass and inspired Pop Matters to call him “one of the best damn songwriters operating today.”  Burch's discography includes collaborations with Mark Knopfler, Billy Bragg, Lambchop, and Ralph Stanley. His new album, Cry Love, is out this fall. Burch's debut novel Meridian Rising (UGA Press) imagines the life of the "Father of Country Music" Jimmie Rodgers. 

Emily Clement was born in late summer 1997, in Nashville, Tennessee.  Very early on, her sound developed into a rich southern swagger that wraps around her words and reveals the emotions in all our lives. From the beginning,  her songwriting was a way of discovering her voice and place in the world.  She was raised around wildly creative songwriters, circus performers and music producers such as her cousin, noted musician and producer, Cowboy Jack Clement. As something of family tradition, she was expected to dig deep and find what was truly inside herself as a singer.  In the spirit of Jolie Holland and Angel Olsen, Emily hones her craft while remaining true to her own feel for music. Putting a label on Emily’s style would be impossible. From a beginning count off, you know that you are listening to an artist’s passion and not a singer attempting t match a passing fad. Emily's dream is to perform for audiences around the world, and ideally, to an intimate, dedicated crowd of loyal listeners that follow and support her career. It is in these humble settings that Emily longs to live and sing to her fans, without any pretense or delusions of grandeur.

A Louisiana native, now 25-year East Nashville resident, Kevin Gordon is a performing songwriter currently recording the follow-up to his 2018 release, Tilt and Shine. His albums have garnered high critical praise in The New York Times, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and many others.  The title track from Down to the Well, a duet with Lucinda Williams, was featured on the Oxford American Southern Music Sampler. Those who've recorded his songs include Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Hard Working Americans (Todd Snider), Irma Thomas, Webb Wilder, and others. Julie Christensen (Flesh Eaters, Leonard Cohen) releases "11 from Kevin: Songs of Kevin Gordon", a new album comprised entirely of her versions of Gordon's songs, in January 2022. Kevin also holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Will Kimbrough has spent a lifetime writing songs and performing them, along the way becoming a respected recording artist, producer and musician. Will's songs have been recorded by Jimmy Buffett, Little Feat, Todd Snider, Jack Ingram, Gretchen Peters and many others. His production credits include Buffett, Doug Seegers, Todd Snider, Radney Foster and Steve Poltz. Will is also a member of Willie Sugarcapps, DADDY and Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Boys.