From the alluring southern city of Macon, Georgia and a family steeped in oral tradition, JB Straussmeshes music with storytelling in effortless fashion. Influenced by the heavy, electric style of bands likeThe Allman Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Lynyrd Skynyrd along with poetic and wittywriters like John Prine, Gram Parsons, and Jim Croce, it is fitting JB borrows from the notion that‘everything that rises must converge.’Also noteworthy are the years JB spent with family and friends on Georgia’s Golden Isles. His music isredolent of the intricacies and depth of life in the marshes and intracoastal waterways and leans on theirlife-giving elements to feed the soul when the rivers of home run murky.As JB followed in both of his grandfathers’ footsteps, achieving a law degree all his own, he learned thestories hidden beneath the surface of life in the South. The musical result is an ability to deftly balance thehuman qualities of contradiction with spiritual redemption. “These songs are part of the foundation of whoI am as a person and now as an artist,” JB says.JB's first full length studio album, Saints of the South, is set for release May 9, 2024 and features themoody redemption song, "Ocmulgee Moon," good time boot stomper "Worth a Whiskey," and "Abilene," acatchy country song with a class rock feel.

Splintered from the foundations of John Prine, the Rolling Stones, and Billy Joe Shaver, Nashville’s Mac Leaphart is an artist that puts the song first. Mac & his band deliver scrappy honky tonk rock & roll, tight but sloppy in all the right places.  One part troubadour story teller, one part southern rock & roll entertainer, Leaphart has spent the last decade playing songs to anybody who would listen.  From Nashville guitar pulls to Texas roadhouses, Leaphart has his run himself ragged for the sake of the song. Leaphart is set to release his latest Album, Motel Breakfast, in September.