Americana Fest is an annual music festival in Nashville, Tennessee celebrating all genres of music that culminate in a reverence of Americana. It features a myriad of artists including some un-official shows that pop-up in little dive bars and venues. My favorite part of the festival is getting to meet up-and-coming artists, seeing my friends […]

An interview with Mark Erin AKA DOLLY CASH 1.) Dolly Cash in itself came to be as an homage to where I came from. My mama used to tell us grandkids stories of how we were related to June and the Carter family. So naturally I gravitated to Johnny Cash as a young boy. As […]

1.) Why does a cohesive theming across your music, style, and the artwork attached to the music matter to you?      To me it’s all about storytelling. For thousands of years we have used visual enhancements, whether artwork or special regalia or costumes to help us convey the stories we wanted to tell one another. […]

High Quality Looks Equal Authority: What do I mean by authority? Let me be as blunt and concise as I possibly can- Shitty artwork attached to your music makes you look like an amature. I won’t call out any artists… maybe one who recently put out some work titled after two different birds who absolutely has […]

Appalachian APP-UH-LATCH-UN. For some reason I hear a lot of dismissal of the fiddle. Hillbilly music. Old timey. Hickville. Backwards. It’s shrugged off, ignored, scoffed at by folks with degrees in fancy schools. For a moment I guess we can set aside the fact that the fiddle ain’t exactly what we might call easy to […]

Backwoods Barbie. For those who can cast a line as well as they can put on mascara. We’re too often forced into these tight, uncomfortable boxes of expectations and rules and boundaries. If you live here or listen to this or wear this then it directly represents who you are on a very surface sort […]

Photography for musicians is a helluva lot more than just something to post on instagram. INDEX: –The Two Art Forms. –What Portraiture Actually Is/Means –What Musicians Use Photography For (Album Covers, Posters, Promos, Branding, and More!) –High Quality Looks Equal Authority –My Process (How I’m Going To Create Your Unique Photographic Branding) –Who I’m For […]

Soft Grass City Lights Night Silk Drunken Laughter Southern Jazz Broken Concrete Wild Smile Ashley and I wanted to challenge ourselves with this branding work for her upcoming single and subsequent album. Nashville is a vast city- more than just the two crowded streets on Broadway– and the most intimate and historical parts are often […]