Pony Bradshaw

Country music troubadour Pony Bradshaw will be returning to our dance hall to serenade us all in an intimate setting. OPENER: Tyler Key

 

Like his previous two releases, the tracks on his new album feel more like immersive experiences than mere songs, serving as odes to the land and language of Appalachia. These lyrical landscapes pay tribute to the region where Bradshaw settled nearly two decades ago. The songs are rich with imagery of mountain laurel and tobacco leaves, transporting listeners to mill towns, American Legion halls, and Mineral Bluff, GA. The songs offer a hybrid, textured sound with hints of bluegrass and Americana, rich with rustic guitar leads, fiddle and pedal steel.

 

OPENER TYLER KEY: 

Tyler Key grew up in Bowdon GA, a tiny town between Atlanta and Birmingham, surrounded by farmland and generations of kinfolk. Sharecroppers and mechanics and truck drivers and seamstresses made up both sides of his family, not a musician in the lot. Instead of playing an old time fiddle tune, they did what good southerners do best: they told stories, shot the bull, carried on. All this “carrying on” tuned Key’s ear to the cadence of a good story from the get-go. 

After stumbling his way through college with a degree in literature, he found his footing in Athens GA, a college town and hub for creative types and eccentrics. There he wrote 2019’s Local Supportand started touring regionally. Key honed his musicality as a pedal steel guitarist for country-ish acts like The Howdies, T. Hardy Morris, Little Gold, and Pony Bradshaw.  

His most recent album, Wild Azaleas and Other Tall Tales, sounds a bit like Sticky Fingers-era Stones with the offbeat lyricism of John Prine. It’s comfortably weird, and weirdly comfortable.

For Key, it’s his way of carrying on that grand tradition of telling stories, lies, half-truths, and tall tales.

This is going to be a great event in our historic dance hall so come and join the fun!

 

Tickets start at $25 so get yours at the link!