Darby Wilcox & the Peep Show Live Friday, March 8th between 3 & 4pm

Isis Restaurant & Music Hall in Asheville has two acts performing Wednesday evening that we've played, and we've got both in Studio B that afternoon. Montreal-born Kaia Kater, accompanied by her banjos and guitar, sings songs that explore themes of migration and belonging on her album Grenades, which has been nominated for a 2019 JUNO Award for Contemporary Roots Album. David Jacobs-Strain has been singing and playing some powerful slide guitar before impressed crowds since he was a boy in 1990's Eugene, Oregon, and  has been collaborating with blues harpist Bob Beach since 2010.

Two of our favorite albums of the last couple years have been from Chapel Hill's Sarah Shook: 2017 Sidelong, and 2018's Years. If you can imagine someone inspired most by the Sex Pistols, Hank Williams, Nikki Lane, & Elliott Smith, that's Sarah and her band. They play the Grey Eagle in Asheville on Thursday night.

Billy Cardine & Mary Lucey (Acoustic Syndicate and the Biscuit Burners) have teamed up with Joel Timmons and Shelby Means (Sol Driven Train, Sally & George and Della Mae) to form Lovers Leap, named after the rock outcrop in Hot Springs where they first played together. On Friday they play Asheville, and on Saturday they play Johnson City (which kind of rhymes with Jon Stickley....coincidence?)