The Caverns Sessions

Truly iconic, profoundly influential, and a catalyst for an entire movement in country rock and American roots music, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, continues to add to their legendary status. With multi-platinum and gold records, strings of Top 10 hits, multiple Grammy, IBMA, CMA Awards, the band's accolades continue to accumulate.

Singer-songwriter and violinist, road warrior, and recently minted MFA in creative writing, Amanda Shires cuts her own genre blended roots-rock with fierce-sweet violin, soaring vocals and critically acclaimed compositions. Shires was Americana’s 2017 Emerging Artist of the Year and won for Best Americana Album with husband Jason Isbell’s band, The 400 Unit.

Nashville-based singer-songwriting bluesman and four-time Grammy Award winner, Keb’ Mo’ has been described as "a living link to the seminal Delta blues that traveled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America." A musical force defying typical genre labels, Mo’s post-modern blues style harkens many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country.

Ritter is a vocalist, musician, New York Times best-selling author, painter, and consummate live performer - a true artist. Best known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics, Josh Ritter is — two decades into a storied career — unafraid of growing, changing and constantly challenging then estimable, earlier versions of himself. Josh Ritter, it seems, may just be getting started.

Lucero’s first gig in Memphis was for a crowd of six. But for a band with a 20-year string of successes and aural iterations, who carried the alt-country torch back in the '90s and helped pave the way for “Americana,” Lucero have returned to what inspired them in the first place. They tour behind a streamlined sound honoring their seminal southern and rock influences.

Two talented boys from a working class Maryland family, the Brothers Osborne bring us a “twang-and-crunch,” equal parts country and rock into one of the freshest, most identifiable sounds to come out of Nashville in recent years. Five-time Grammy nominees, The Brothers Osborne reign as back-to-back ACM Vocal Duo of the Year Awards as well as the two-time CMA Vocal Duo of the Year.

This native of South Africa who as a child moved to the U.S. is now a fiercely independent, DIY musician based in Boulder, CO. Influenced from a young age by Leonard Cohen, Kelly Joe Phelps and Bruce Springsteen, Isakov strikes that “balance of space and instrumentation,” with lush flourishes: twirling strings, a loping banjo, ghostly pedal steel, solid yet restrained percussion.

Producer, author, activist, actor, singer-songwriter. A master musician and writer’s writer in the vein of Townes van Zandt and Guy Clark, his work has carried a profound affect on the Americana, country, rock, and folk genres for nearly two generations. There is, frankly, no one quite like Steve Earle.

Lauren Morrow, once the crown jewel of The Whiskey Gentry, with her broad vocal range and sweet Georgia drawl, is here to tell you a story. Morrow’s songs chronicle the decades of life, some real, some fiction, all universal and yet personal. Whether crooning a murder ballad or belting out a vintage country banger, her talent is a unique impression that lingers.

This gifted Irish songwriter, vocalist and guitarist for The Frames is known for his acting in the "The Commitments" and "Once," which earned him an Academy Award for Best Song, the Sundance Festival's World Cinema Audience Award, a TONY, and London’s Olivier award for outstanding achievement in music. Hansard brings the heart and soul of the Irish back by a powerful folk-rock horn band.

Vermont-raised and rooted in troubadour traditions of wandering folk, delta blues, reckless rock, and whiskey-ragtime jazz, the California-based band evokes songs from some bygone era like a dusty leather bound book. Carefully crafted, the trio's songs unfold like short stories.

One of Nashville’s enduring musical treasures and a masterful song stylist of many genres, Mandy Barnett highlights her blues and roots music influences, backed by her topnotch band. Barnett takes her cue from the crooning of iconic singers and timeless sounds, wrapping her powerhouse vocals around songs to reach their emotional cores.