This Texas-by-way-of-New-Mexico artist is hitting his stride at just the right moment.  Pandemic be damned, there is music to be made!  After a year of waiting for the world to return to some kind of normal, Grider is firing on all cylinders despite the circumstances.  With a new record in the can, putting on the producer hat for a new up and coming artist, and gigs starting to fill up the calendar again, 2023 is looking to be a banner year for Grider!  “A poet of optimism and maturity” (Lonestar Music magazine), Grider has fully embraced his status as a musical Swiss Army Knife, expanding his reach deeper into collaboration — as evidenced by projects with longtime friend Drew Kennedy (Topo Chico Cowboys, Vol. 1 and 2) and his wife.    More

“We had one rule when we started recording this record: If we don’t have it, we can’t use it.” It’s a simple concept – the premise that makes up Drew Kennedy’s ninth studio album, Marathon – but the result is a vivid and immersive ode to a corner of the world that the singer-songwriter has fallen in love with over the years. Kennedy and his collaborator, Davis Naish, packed up a select set of instruments and headed to a small adobe house in the tiny Far West Texas town after which the album is named – as he mentions in the opening track, a town born of Buffalo Soldiers and Seminole Scouts and the third transcontinental railroad, with seven high school seniors; the entire town has less than 400 residents – where they spent a week recording his latest 11-song collection.  More