GABE LEE
THE OLD QUARTER IS A LISTENING ROOM. LOUD CONVERSATION DURING ARTIST'S PERFORMANCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS WHEN PURCHASING TICKETS TO SHOWS.
Gabe Lee has been collecting stories for years, both onstage and off. "I used to bartend," says
the Nashville-based songwriter, "which means I was also a cheap therapist for whomever
happened to be sitting on the barstool. Whether they were there to celebrate or drink away
their problems, I heard about whatever they were going through. It was my job to have that
face-to-face interaction — that connection. Being a full-time musician isn't much different."
With critically-acclaimed albums like 2019's farmland, 2020's Honky-Tonk Hell, and 2022's The
Hometown Kid, Lee created that connection by delivering his own stories to an ever-growing
audience. His fourth record, Drink the River, takes a different approach. This time, Lee isn't
offering listeners a peek into his internal world; he's holding up a mirror to reflect their own.
Rooted in the bluegrass influences that have always simmered beneath the surface of Lee's
music, Drink the River is an acoustic album about the shared human experience. These songs
are true-life tales of heartbreak, love, overdoses, and resilience. They're stories about the highs
and lows that bind us all together. Lee collected some of those stories from his family and
friends, while others arrived as he crisscrossed the country over the past decade, playing show
after show, meeting characters from all walks of life.
