Chris Hennessee was born and raised in Decatur, Tennessee.  “Growing up in a small town along the Tennessee River we spent all of our summers at the lake and our winters in the woods.  No matter where we were, we were surrounded by music.  Whether Country, Bluegrass, Gospel or Southern Rock we loved it all and the band I was in back in those days played it all.”  Chris moved to Nashville and quickly became part of the “Music Row Fraternity”.  His first move was Nashville’s Lower Broadway music scene.  It was there that he met a young Jamey Johnson who would play a large role later in his career.  

After meeting music producer Blake Chancey (Dixie Chicks, Montgomery Gentry, David Ball and many others) he signed a publishing and management deal withTim McGraw’s management company RPM.   He went on to have his songs recorded by Cody Johnson, Billy Currington, Cody Jinks, Sam Williams, Rodney Carrington, Kevin Fowler, Corey Morrow, Trent Willmon, and Roger Creager.  Hennessee also had collaborations with The Wild Feathers (Song titled “Hennessee” and “On A Rail”) featured on the hit TV show “Nashville”.  

Chris Has released 5 full-length albums in the last decade.  “Revival” was released in 2012 and produced by acclaimed producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jamey Johnson and many more).  His 4th studio album “Ramble” featured guest appearances by Jamey Johnson (Wrong End Of The Rainbow)  Alison Krauss (Ramble) and The Wild Feathers (Midnight Run).  The title track “Ramble” was also recorded by Outlaw rocker Cody Jinks on his album “The Wanting”.  Chris’s latest album “Twilight in the South” was released in the summer of 2021.   

These days he spends much of his time headlining shows across the country as well as spending time on the road with Jamey Johnson where he plays guitar as well as opening many of their shows.  “Jamey has become the torch bearer for Outlaw and traditional country and its been a great ride to share with him,” Hennessee says about touring with Johnson.  

Hennessee is currently in the studio working on new music for 2023 beginning with his newest single “Me Missin’ You” which is slated to be released in January 2023  

By the end of 2019, The Wild Feathers had enough. They’d been through the wringer of big hopes and major label realities. Instead of becoming a music biz sob story, the band knew they had one option to succeed: blow everything up and do things their way. 

And they did. 

Ahead of Medium Rarities, an odd-and-ends collection that was released last year, the group went through unreleased tracks and ended up self-producing three new songs in relaxed sessions that were fun and spontaneous. While in the studio, each member agreed that they didn’t need the high life and fancy workspaces in order to succeed. Rather than relying on others, The Wild Feathers kept things in-house, producing themselves, which was a part of the hard-scrabble work ethic that got them their success in the first place. 

It brought the Nashville-based group closer. The Wild Feathers decided to keep a tighter ship, not only with input on their career but sonically as well. 

What could have ended things, liberated them. 

They figured out new ways to chart out and work on songs in a fuller, efficient manner. Armed with newfound confidence and a brand new attentive team surrounding them, the quintet were ready to dive in headfirst. The new approach’s success is confirmed on Alvarado, The Wild Feathers’ latest album that’s perhaps the strongest work in the band’s catalog to date. 

The positive vibes and energy of this time can be heard on the album’s title track. “Alvarado” is a song the band has had in their back pocket for almost a decade. While they were going through some of the recordings that would comprise Medium Rarities, they rediscovered the eight-year-old uptempo rocker and couldn’t let it fade into the dustbin of lost songs. It also set the overall vibe and tone for what was to come.

In December of 2020, the group hunkered down in a small cabin northwest of Nashville to chip away at a bunch of new songs they worked on during the pandemic. Using the confidence gained from self-producing the new songs found on Medium Rarities, they spent a week together hammering out material. For the first time without a fancy studio, the band were confident and calm during the process, which cohesively allowed the sound to be exactly what they felt like instead of having to answer otherwise. Knocking out 14 songs in just four days, they bonded over barbecues and beers and there was a warmness that hadn’t been present since their early days. It is reflected in the laid-back nature of the songs on Alvarado. 

The collaboration and intricate layering of instrumentation, as well as the lyrical matter, on Alvarado showcases The Wild Feathers’ growth as songwriters and burgeoning producers. Without pressure and the newfound confidence to write and produce their own material, The Wild Feathers have done what’s usually a difficult task for a band at this stage of their career: evolve and produce some of their best work to date. 

If they’ve learned nothing else from their odyssey, no obstacle will stop The Wild Feathers from getting to where they want to go.

From the true southern city of Macon, Georgia, and a family steeped in oral tradition, JB Strauss meshes music with storytelling in effortless fashion.

Influenced by the heavy, electric style of bands like The Allman Brothers, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, along with poetic and witty writers like John Prine, Gram Parsons, and Jim Croce, it is fitting that JB borrows from the notion that ‘everything that rises must converge.’

Also noteworthy are the years JB spent with family and friends on Georgia’s Golden Isles. His music is redolent of the intricacies and depth of life in the marshes and intracoastal waterways and leans on their life-giving elements to feed the soul when the rivers of home run murky. As JB followed in both of his grandfathers’ footsteps, achieving a law degree all his own, he learned the stories hidden beneath the surface of life in the South. The musical result? The ability to deftly balance the human qualities of contradiction with spiritual redemption. “These songs are part of the foundation of who I am as a person and now as an artist,” JB says.

In “Man Possessed”, the title song of his debut EP, out everywhere December 5th, JB speaks of his grandfather’s life as a Judge and “…how that life wore him down like river over stone…he became a man possessed with moving on.” Another tune, “Piss Ant Hill”, which will be released as the first single on 11/22, is a humorous, yet poignant tale of a man whose fatal mistakes land him in Georgia’s Reidsville Prison. With no one to claim him when he dies, the subject’s destiny becomes a date with a pine box on prison land reserved for the unclaimed.

As JB launches his artist career, one can expect honesty and intensity, truth and salvage. His presence on-stage is paramount to the experience and fans will feel it immediately when they step into one of his shows. “Man Possessed” represents just the first chapter of a long musical journey ahead. Indeed, it’s harvest time for JB Strauss