Double Bill! Trae Sheehan with opening act Tom Hampton !
Trae Sheehan
Born into the rustic life of an Alpaca farm, Trae was raised in the beauty of the Appalachian valley, but his heart yearned for a life beyond the rolling hills.
From a tender age, he discovered his love for the melodies that danced upon the winds, whispering secrets of the world around him. He would spend hours beneath the starry canopy, strumming his guitar and composing songs that told tales of love, loss, and the wonders of life. His voice, smooth as the air, carry his ballads far and wide.
In 2019, Trae Sheehan’s album Arizona soared to the Top 10 on the Roots Radio Charts, casting his warming melodies far and wide. With lyrics as vast as the woodland landscape, the album echoed through valleys and towns, drawing listeners to the troubadour’s stage. His songs, imbued with the timeless spirit of the road, spoke to their hearts, soothing their worries and kindling the fires of hope.
His 2020 follow-up record, Postcards from the Country, earned praise from the likes of American Songwriter Magazine, PopMatters, and The Bluegrass Situation, solidifying Trae’s place in the musical world. But it was 2021’s Hello From the End of the World that truly marked his ascent. Featuring the fan-favorite "Sleeveless Hearts," the album charted in the Top 100 on the Americana Radio Charts.
Tom Hampton
A few songs into the new Tom Hampton album "A Month Of Somedays", it’s easy to get the sense that these songs have been simmering on low heat over the course of several soul-searching years. Hampton is certainly no stranger to the studio - on his own behalf or in the service of records by Craig Bickhardt, Dan May, Mustangs of the West, Michael Braunfeld, Chris Canterbury, or Cimarron 615 (the band he formed with fellow ex-Poco members in the wake of the 2021 death of their founder, Rusty Young). Still, the drought between releases of original material has been a long one.
His years as a journeyman multi-instrumentalist and sideman are bookended by his initial foray into music as a singer/songwriter - he released his critically acclaimed debut "Our Mutual Angels" in 1997 while simultaneously heeding the call as a session player based on his demonstrated adeptness on multiple instruments during those recording sessions. After finding himself disillusioned by the demands of driving a solo career, the transition became an easy way to hide in plain sight - “For me, it meant that I could still play music in front of people, I could still make records, but I was relieved of the pressures of blowing my own horn,” he remembers.
Over the course of subsequent years playing sessions in Philadelphia and touring with John Lilley of the Hooters, Philadelphia legend Robert Hazard, the band Idlewheel (which featured Craig Bickhardt and Poco bassist Jack Sundrud) and a stint on the road with southern rockers the Marshall Tucker Band, he made several homemade albums on a recreational basis but his focus on songwriting had taken a backseat to his instrumental craft. After relocating to Nashville and an invitation to join the pioneering country rock band Poco, he felt ready to settle into his new role in a band he’d loved since his teenage years - until the pandemic sidelined the notion of touring. With Young’s subsequent passing and the formulation of the band that grew out of the final Poco lineup, Hampton rediscovered his yellow legal pad.
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Trae Sheehan
Tom Hampton