The Black Lillies (Website)
The Black Lillies have never backed down from a challenge: proudly independent since their formation, they are always pushing forward and evolving, letting the inspiration and music take focus. That drive has led them to become one of Americana’s biggest success stories: an internationally-renowned band of roots-rockers, armed with songs that blur the boundaries between folk, soul, red dirt country, blues and rock.
With four albums under their belts, the band has been a mainstay on radio and album sales charts, promoting each release in the blue-collar tradition: by hitting the highway, averaging 175 gigs per year. That road-warrior work ethic has become as integral to the band’s success as founder Cruz Contreras’ songwriting, taking the band from coast to coast, border to border, and even country to country. And they have racked up accolades as easily as the miles on their Sprinter, winning praise from outlets including American Songwriter, Rolling Stone, NPR, CMT, Wall Street Journal and Billboard.
The Black Lillies have enthralled audiences at festivals including Bonnaroo Music + Arts, New Orleans Jazz Fest, MerleFest, Stagecoach, CMA Fest & Fan Fair, and Pickathon. Equally at home on theatre stages and in rock clubs, they were one of the first independent bands to play the Grand Ole Opry and have since returned dozens of times – sharing that stage with big-budget bands and major-label mainstreamers. They’ve chased down success on their terms, ignoring the trends of Nashville and focusing on a sound that, as Vanity Fair notes, “continues to cross generations and musical genres – country, folk, blues and a touch of the Dead, for good measure.”
Tyler Nail (Website)
Tyler Nail is a songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Nail established himself throughout the Southeast with his Americana trio, The Tyler Nail Trio. Since the trio disbanded in 2016, Nail has taken on multiple iterations of his show. Tyler Nail sometimes describes a solo singer, sometimes an acoustic small group, and sometimes a full-speed, six-body stage show. Regardless of the arrangement, the consistency is found among the songs. Tyler Nail is most fundamentally a performer of musical literature, with a uniquely rough voice and an ear for composition. The band arrangement may change show by show, but the experience of the songs and the singer transcends the unpredictability of the instrumentation.
The Black Lillies have never backed down from a challenge: proudly independent since their formation, they are always pushing forward and evolving, letting the inspiration and music take focus. That drive has led them to become one of Americana’s biggest success stories: an internationally-renowned band of roots-rockers, armed with songs that blur the boundaries between folk, soul, red dirt country, blues and rock.
With four albums under their belts, the band has been a mainstay on radio and album sales charts, promoting each release in the blue-collar tradition: by hitting the highway, averaging 175 gigs per year. That road-warrior work ethic has become as integral to the band’s success as founder Cruz Contreras’ songwriting, taking the band from coast to coast, border to border, and even country to country. And they have racked up accolades as easily as the miles on their Sprinter, winning praise from outlets including American Songwriter, Rolling Stone, NPR, CMT, Wall Street Journal and Billboard.
The Black Lillies have enthralled audiences at festivals including Bonnaroo Music + Arts, New Orleans Jazz Fest, MerleFest, Stagecoach, CMA Fest & Fan Fair, and Pickathon. Equally at home on theatre stages and in rock clubs, they were one of the first independent bands to play the Grand Ole Opry and have since returned dozens of times – sharing that stage with big-budget bands and major-label mainstreamers. They’ve chased down success on their terms, ignoring the trends of Nashville and focusing on a sound that, as Vanity Fair notes, “continues to cross generations and musical genres – country, folk, blues and a touch of the Dead, for good measure.”
Tyler Nail (Website)
Tyler Nail is a songwriter from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Nail established himself throughout the Southeast with his Americana trio, The Tyler Nail Trio. Since the trio disbanded in 2016, Nail has taken on multiple iterations of his show. Tyler Nail sometimes describes a solo singer, sometimes an acoustic small group, and sometimes a full-speed, six-body stage show. Regardless of the arrangement, the consistency is found among the songs. Tyler Nail is most fundamentally a performer of musical literature, with a uniquely rough voice and an ear for composition. The band arrangement may change show by show, but the experience of the songs and the singer transcends the unpredictability of the instrumentation.
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