Spencer Cullum

With an arm’s length list of credits stretching from the likes of Kesha, Caitlin Rose and Deer Tick, to Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town, pedal steel savant Spencer Cullum is one of Nashville’s most in-demand session cats. That’s in addition to making up half of acclaimed, primarily instrumental space-country duo, Steelism.

Clearly he’s had little trouble fitting in since moving from his native London to Music City by way of Detroit, even if it’s mostly meant blending into the background. “I guess I’ve always hidden behind the instrument..... I’m always the guy who looks like he’s studying for a test in the background.”

Growing up in Jackson, Tennessee but now residing in her adopted home of Nashville, Erin Rae and the Meanwhiles walk the line between old-school folk and modern Americana, filled with pedal steel, vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar, bright bursts of melody and plenty of space.

Rae’s distinct voice has drawn comparison to a diverse range of contemporaries from Jenny Lewis and Phoebe Bridgers to 60s and 70s singer-songwriters including The Carpenters and Janis Ian. Putting On Airs released on John Paul White’s Single Lock records in 2018, is the perfect soundscape for Rae’s soothing vocals and a genre-fusing mix of indie-rock, psych-rock and folk.

Hollow Hand is the psych-folk project of Max Kinghorn-Mills, based in the English countryside.

After gathering the talents and limited equipment of 4 like-minded friends, the band were able to record their first album; ‘Ancestral Lands’ which was released on limited cassette via US label Ongakubaka Records in January 2016.

The album is influenced by electric folk records of the late 60s/early 70s (Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Iain Matthews, Gene Clark).

"Ancestral Lands, is the consummate time-travel companion. Anyone game for getting deliciously lost in a strange landscape will reel with the twists and turns of the properly coherent body of songs possessing that rare quality: longterm listenability" - Gold Flake Paint

"...these tunes will appeal to fans of Fleet Foxes and Animal Collective. Chariot is weird, wonderful and unsettling in that waking-from-a -dream-you-can’t-quite-remember kind of way" - Repeat Button