Artists
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters
The music of Asheville, North Carolina based outfit Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters is nuanced, bringing insight and wit to the stories Platt tells through songwriting. Lyrically driven, the band’s country roots music often inspires introspection, whether it be about life on the road, heartache or hope.
There is an empathetic and charming wit ingrained in Platt’s songwriting. She has a knack for accessing a deep well of emotion and applying it to her story-telling, whether she is writing from her own experiences or immersing herself into the melody of emotions in another person's life.
Performing along with Platt, The Honeycutters are Matt Smith (pedal steel and electric guitars), Kevin Williams (keys/vocals), Rick Cooper (bass/vocals), and Evan Martin (drums/vocals).
The band is currently on tour supporting their sixth studio album - "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" - released 2/25/2022 on Organic Records
Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING
Part Basement Tapes, Paul Simon, and a globetrotting foray into progressive sounds, ‘SHABANG’ is some of the most exploratory music of Scott McMicken’s career. His debut album with the new group Scott McMicken and THE EVER-EXPANDING is out today.
Over the past few years, McMicken has been building out his home studio operation, working on music and recording other artists like Big Thief and Michael Nau. For most of 2021, he wrote and recorded a sizable batch of solo songs but no matter how much he tinkered with them, something felt off and he realized he needd a band. The result was THE EVER-EXPANDING, a group of musicians assembled by producer Nick Kinsey, and most of whom had never even met. As sessions began at Kinsey’s studio, The Chicken Shack, McMicken decided to scrap most of the songs he’d painstakingly demoed to invite unshaken improvisation.
“There’s something about being around strangers that just kind of holds the mirror up on you,” says McMicken. “I think there's a higher degree of accountability when you’re making music. You thrive within the limitations and awkwardness if you are really honed and you're intuitive.”
Hannah Kaminer & the Wistfuls
Hannah Kaminer is an artist and singer-songwriter writing songs about love, loss, and home. Raised in small towns in Western North Carolina, she fuses echoes of Appalachian and country traditions with wistful, Americana-style songwriting. She began studying and performing music in her mid-twenties, and has released three studio albums: Acre by Acre (2015), Heavy Magnolias (2018) which was co-produced with GRAMMY-winning engineer Julian Dreyer, and Heavy on the Vine (2024) which she produced with her band, The Wistfuls.
Her latest album, Heavy on the Vine, was released in January 2024, and has garnered play and a Studio B session at WNCW as well as reviews and mentions by the NYTimes, Americana-UK, The Bluegrass Situation, and AltCountry.NL. Currently, Kaminer and her band are promoting the new album in the Southeast U.S. and beyond.