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A Troubadour of the American Soul

Born beneath the vast, wind-combed skies of a quiet Minnesota farming town, Parry Lamont grew up where the horizon stretches unbroken and the seasons write their own stern poetry across the land. The rhythm of tractors in distant fields, the hush of snowfall over empty roads, the lonely hymn of grain silos at dusk—these were his first instruments. He carries that landscape with him still: in the dust that clings to his boots, in the steady cadence of his stride, in the spacious, unhurried timbre of his voice.

His road, however, has never been confined to county lines. It has wound through the pulse and pavement of America’s great music cities—through the rain-slicked soul of Seattle, the blue-collar blues of Chicago, the sultry, brass-soaked nights of New Orleans. Each place left a fingerprint on his sound, broadening its colors without blurring its roots. From coffeehouse corners to dimly lit barrooms, he gathered stories the way some men gather scars—honestly earned, quietly carried.

Deeply influenced by the plainspoken poetry of Texas troubadours, Lamont learned early that a song doesn’t need ornament to endure. It needs truth. From writers who understood the sacred weight of a single well-chosen word, he absorbed the lesson that restraint can be more powerful than flourish, and that silence between lines can speak as loudly as any chorus. His music reflects that philosophy: raw but deliberate, weathered yet resonant—like an old hardwood floor that creaks with memory but never gives way.

On stage, Parry is both anchor and wildfire. There is grit in his delivery, a gravel-road honesty, but also a surprising tenderness that catches the light. His melodies feel lived-in, as though they’ve traveled long miles before reaching your ears. When he sings, you can almost taste prairie wind on your tongue, feel the pull of generations behind you, and sense the quiet ache of roads that vanish into amber sunsets.

Each lyric lands with purpose—steady as a bootstep on hardpan earth. No pretense. No borrowed shine. Just the unvarnished truth of a man willing to stand inside his own story. And when he opens that story to an audience, something remarkable happens: the songs stop belonging solely to him. They become shared ground, common soil.

In Parry Lamont’s world, memories don’t fade—they linger like the last light over harvested fields. Emotions are not hidden—they are faced, held, and given melody. And as his final chords hum into silence, what remains is more than music. It is recognition. It is reflection. It is the quiet, enduring reminder that our own hopes, heartbreaks, and hard-won humanity are worth singing about, too.

• Kerrville New Folk Winner
• Member of the Northwest Arkansas Music Hall of Fame

 Effron White is an Arkansas born and raised, award winning singer/songwriter now residing in Pineview, TN.

When you hear Effron White, you are immediately struck by the uniqueness of his songs and their delivery. His gravelly vocal brings to mind the likes of Tom Waits, John Prine, or Bob Dylan; yet, there's a personal earthiness that drives the emotional truth of his songs right into your heart.

As a songwriter, Effron draws his influences from those legends of the past who are looked upon as poets as much as songwriters; Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, and Guy Clark.

Currently, he performs nationwide with his duo partner, Lauren Blaine, as “EFFRON WHITE w/ Lauren Blaine”. Lauren is an accomplished writer and performer in her own right, and shares writing credits on a few songs on the new album. She hails from Los Angeles, CA, via her hometown of Stayton, Oregon. Like Effron she is a transplant to the Nashville area music scene, having boomeranged back and forth from LA to Nashville since the early 90s.

Together, they bring a unique sound to their brand of acoustic, Americana music.

Effron’s skills as a singer/songwriter have resulted in nationwide recognition. In 2004, Effron won the coveted "New Folk" Award at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival. He has also been honored as a Northwest Arkansas Music Award's Hall of Fame Artist, as a result of having been voted Best Singer-Songwriter in three previous years. In 2010, he was featured in American Songwriter Magazine’s Lyric Spotlight for his song, "Long Haul", a story song about a down and out trucker. The same song won the Billboard Song Contest in 2011. He was selected as Nashville Ear’s (www.nashvilleear.com) “Best of the Best, 2019". He has performed in many venues featuring songwriters of the highest caliber, including the Kerrville Folk Festival (Kerrville, TX), the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival (Okemah, OK), the Frank Brown International Songwriters Festival (Perdido Key, FL), the 30A Songwriters Festival (Santa Rosa Beach, FL), the Nashville Songwriters Festival, The Bluebird Cafe (Nashville, TN), Douglas Corner Cafe (Nashville, TN), and Bass Performance Hall’s McDavid Studio (Fort Worth, TX).

His 2012 album, “Long Haul”, was co-produced with Texas Music Awards “Producer of the Year, 2012”, John Inmon. With 4 CDs under his belt, Effron projects his 5th album will be released in 2023.

Two of Effron’s original songs were recently used in the award winning indie film, “Samland”, available on most streaming platforms, distributed by Gravitas. 

Roy Schneider and Kim Mayfield are the core duo and songwriters of Reckless Saints. Partners in music and love since 2003, they began recording and touring five years later. “Blue Twangled Folk 'n' Roll' is the answer Roy provided to the question "What kind of music do you play?"  The Fort Myers based duo decided to use his answer as the album title for their new release, while also adopting the title of their 2018 release 'Reckless Saints' as their new band moniker.

Reckless Saints founder Roy Schneider was 16 and in hiding when he began making music in earnest. He had just escaped a yearlong incarceration at a controversial facility for troubled teens called Straight, Inc.  where, among many other things, he had been denied the right to play his guitar, listen to or even talk about music. The saintly woman who sheltered Roy after his escape (one of the original 'Reckless Saints') loaned him her son's* guitar, which he played obsessively, teaching himself countless songs by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead and The Beatles. 

A decade on, Schneider had married, divorced, become a single father, worked as a Happy Meal toy designer,and for 3 years wrote and drew the syndicated single-dad comic strip The Humble Stumble (United Media). All the while he played covers in bars several nights per week. His passion for musical expression eventually drew his focus from the visual arts to writing more original music and finding an audience for it. Roy's songs have thrice made him a Kerrville New Folk finalist and provided opportunities to make musical connections with dozens of artists. In the 'Most Unexpected Gig Ever' category is his 10-month prep and 'blind audition' for Season 5 of The Voice, where he got no chairs but did get to perform on national television slinging his beloved and well-worn Martin OM-28. He's opened for and/or accompanied John McEuen, Charlie McCoy, Joe Craven, Malcolm Holcombe, Verlon Thompson, Freebo, Buddy Mondlock... and Tom Paxton, who, after a short tour with Roy as his right-hand-man, called him "one of those horrible people who seemingly can play anything they pick up and play it beautifully."

Kim Mayfield grew up in a house filled with music. By age 9 she began piano lessons, learning the basics of technique and reading music; mistakenly believing that reading sheet music was the only way to play piano. " I became disillusioned because the sheet music felt so stiff, and didn't sound like what I heard on the recordings."  Years later and eager to find her voice, she bought a guitar on ebay and taught herself to play enough chords to sing some favorite songs. Never even considering  performing as a career she remained a closet musician and worked as a hairdresser, dental assistant, yoga instructor and massage therapist.  After a 10 year relationship, she found herself a divorced single mom to son Max, inspiring her to tell the story of his adoption from a Siberian children's hospital in one of her first original songs, "Buddha Baby."  

Kim & Roy met online in 2003, when it was still awkward to admit to such in public. On their first date, Roy had Kim playing a few chords on the mandolin and their musical collaboration began. Roy was making a living performing in local venues at the time, but was reluctant to share his original songs as he felt no one was really listening. Kim suggested they book a summer tour, playing any venue that would have them, so they could focus on playing their own songs for a listening audience. Roy agreed, and the duo spent 6 weeks on the road pulling a tiny camper.  The inaugural tour gave them confidence to continue seeking a bigger listening audience and led to higher profile bookings and two European tours. The duo spent over a decade touring and recording 5 CDs of original music under their solo names before officially adopting Reckless Saints as their band name. 

Their new record, and the first official Reckless Saints release, has been years in the making and was greatly influenced by the stress of lockdown. ”'Quarantine Lockdown Blues” was written to the beat of a dripping roof leak in the couple's back shed/studio.  In the song, Roy lyricized his fantasy of riding motorcycles with Jorma Kaukonen near his Fur Peace Ranch in Ohio.  

Kim's “Til the Medicine Takes” could have been a song about addiction, but is actually a cry of despair written before vaccines were on the horizon.  Similarly, “Can't Stay Here” is a desperate wish to be somewhere or someone else.

”Welcome back to the World” kicks off the record with joy and wonder, Roy recounting his wildly-stimulating bus trip through NYC after escaping the crushing dullness ofhis childhood incarceration, though it could also read as a triumphant return to normal life after lockdown.  Adding to the song's Grateful Dead flavor is a guitar solo from David Gans, longtime host of the syndicated 'Grateful Dead Hour' and a friend of the band.

Kim's longing to "dance our blues away" with Roy in his blue suede shoes reflects the cabin fever we all experienced during Covid, and sweetly reminds us not to forget about taking time to play in our busy lives. 

”Everybody Lookin' Down” features the horn section of Freebo (Bonnie Raitt) on tuba and Lee Thornburg (Tonight Show band) on trumpet and valve trombone. This lightest track on the album jokingly laments the very real epidemic of cell phone addiction.

Other studio guests on ‘Blue Twangled Folk 'n' Roll’ include the legendary Country Music Hall of Famer, Charlie McCoy, on harmonica, and Aaron Neville bassist, David C. Johnson. The album was recorded and mixed at the couple's home studio, 'Shiny Gnu Records,' with mastering by Mark Hallman in Austin, TX.

•  Winners of the 2026 International Blues Challenge!
•  Winners of the 2025 Josie Music Awards “Americana Song of the Year (Duo/Group/Collab)”! 
•  2026 European International Music Awards Nominees for “Best Americana Album,” “Best Americana Duo,” “Best Americana Single” & Best Americana Single Lyrics”! 
•  2026 Global Music Awards Silver Medal Winners in “Americana” & “Duo” categories! 
•  Overall Grand Prize Winners of the 22nd annual International Acoustic Music Awards, as well as winners in “Best Country/Bluegrass” category & finalists for “Best Group/Duo”! 
• and many more

Iowa Americana duo, Weary Ramblers, bring years of experience to the stage with award-winning songwriting and chemistry. Chad Elliott and Kathryn Fox showcase multi-instrumental performances with tight harmonies and great storytelling.

 Chad Elliott blends folk roots and soulful writing to deliver an original sound with over two decades of being on the road.. Elliott is lauded as “Iowa’s Renaissance man” by Culture Buzz Magazine. He has penned more than 1,500 songs in his career while also cultivating his skills as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and author. Elliott’s career demonstrates a love of folk, roots and singer-songwriter music. He has worked with and shared the stage with artists of the highest caliber, including Odetta, Tom Paxton, Loudon Wainwright III, Ruthie Foster, Greg Brown, Bo Ramsey, etc. 

 Deemed “fiddler extraordinaire” in Cityview Magazine, Kathryn Fox is a DownBeat award winning artist. She played on the Grammy-nominated track “All My Tomorrows” with Kate McGarry. Kathryn toured internationally with fiddle troupe, Barrage 8, with shows in Europe, the U.S. and Canada. She has performed, recorded PBS specials and recorded with George Benson, The Beach Boys, The Eagles, Pharrell Williams, Natalie Cole, Gloria Estefan, Osmond Brothers, Gloria Gaynor, Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Loggins, Mark O’Connor, Ryan Montbleau, Seth Walker, Edgar Meyer and Joshua Bell. 

Terry Klein writes songs and sings them for people and makes records and drives around in his 2015 Toyota Venza and plays a lot of shows. The Austin American-Statesman calls him “one of Austin's top singer-songwriters in recent years.”  

Terry’s first two albums, Great Northern (2017) and Tex (2019), were produced by Texas folk hero Walt Wilkins and garnered praise from Mary Gauthier and Rodney Crowell and press and radio outlets across the United States and Europe. For his third album, Terry went to Nashville and worked with producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomm Jutz. Recorded over a few breakneck days in October 2021 and released in February 2022, No Depression said Good Luck, Take Care "has a knack for telling poetic stories in songs about the sad, funny, ironic, and devastating ups and downs of our lives" and American Songwriter said the album "conveys honesty and emotion that gives the listener a clear connection."

Terry’s fourth album, Leave the Light On, was also recorded and produced by Thomm Jutz in Nashville and was one of the most critically acclaimed singer-songwriter albums released in 2023. It made American Songwriter’s Top 17 Albums of 2023. Saving Country Music said “the 10 songs of Leave The Light On are like 10 little universes that you’re eager to unearth and unravel, hanging on every word, and re-racking them to catch what you might have missed the first time.” In Glide, Jim Hynes wrote “With such a legacy of great Texas songwriters, in this millennium, after just four albums Klein stands among the best.”

Terry’s newest record, Hill Country Folk Music, is out now. Thomm Jutz recorded and produced the album at his Nashville studio over four days in August 2025. Jubilant, defiant, desperate, and contemplative, it refuses to be pigeonholed. Kind of like the Texas Hill Country, like folk music, like Terry himself.

Terry has played in some of the most hallowed rooms in the singer-songwriter business: Club Passim, The Bluebird, The Saxon Pub, The Blue Door, and Godfrey Daniels, to name a few. He’s played sets and won over crowds at the Moccasin Creek Festival, the Blanco River Songwriters Festival, the Corpus Christi Songwriters Festival, the Hotel Turkey Songwriters Festival, and the Montrose Music Festival. Before all that, a couple of lifetimes ago, he played in a heavy metal band in Los Angeles, thrashing around on grimy, storied stages like the Troubadour and the Whiskey A Go Go. Somewhere in the middle, Terry worked in politics and then as a trial lawyer. He lives with his family in Austin, Texas.

 Jess Klein came to this world to pull firebrand power and childlike joy from our darkest shadows. Her acoustic-driven, hook-laden story songs revel in the polychrome of human experience - joy, rage, sensuality and resilience. The New York Times calls her “A songwriter with a voice of unblinking tenacity.” 

Jess has toured the globe performing in pin-drop listening rooms, cozy theaters and at raucous festivals in front of tens of thousands of fans.  She has toured nationally and internationally supporting Arlo Guthrie, Josh Ritter, Damien Dempsey, John Fullbright and Jonathan Byrd and has opened for such legends as Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Alejandro Escovedo.  Jess has appeared on Good Morning America and NPR’s All Things Considered and has performed at the Newport, Winnipeg, Falcon Ridge and Philadelphia Folk Festivals as well as Fuji Rock Festival in Japan. 

Jess's live shows are known for their intimate and soulful atmosphere. Whether solo with just her guitar or backed by a band, Jess performs with a raw, emotional intensity.  Her emotive vocals, and poignant storytelling invite her fans on a journey through themes of love, loss, and resilience.

The Bluegrass Situation hails Jess's work as “one part grassroots social activism, two parts alt-country guitar rock — a combo we can certainly get behind.” Klein's newest album, 2023's When We Rise, harnesses this potent combination with themes of empowerment and the joy of overcoming set to a dynamic and deeply introspective roots-inflected soundtrack. 

Jonathan Byrd is a preacher’s kid, Gulf War veteran, and award-winning songwriter with a near-cult following. With twenty plus years of touring and over a dozen albums, Byrd’s deceptively simple, working-class songs have become campfire standards and crowd favorites for artists like Sam Bush and Tim O’Brien. A Jonathan Byrd show will take audiences on a journey from hell-raising sing-alongs to heart-wrenching ballads and back across the backroads of his native North Carolina.

A lifelong collaborator and innovator, Jonathan Byrd’s latest project is Song Miners, a project to not only write and release new songs, but also to teach others how it’s done. Leading powerful online songwriting workshops and creating free songwriting education for social media, Byrd seems on a mission to fill the world with great songs- not least, his own. Not to be missed.

• 2000 Juno Award Winner for Best Blues Album
• The Blues Foundation 2012 International Blues Challenge Solo Champion
• 2008 International Folk Alliance's Song of the Year
• Played South by Southwest, Folk Alliance, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival & Montreal  International Jazz Festival
• Shared bills with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Dr. John, J.J. Cale & Robert Cray
• Played on albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard & others

Acclaimed raconteur Ray Bonneville strips his bluesy Americana down to its essentials and steeps it in the humid grooves of the South, creating a compelling poetry of hard living and deep feeling. 

Jim Withers (Montreal Gazette) describes his sound as “folk-roots gumbo… a languid Mississippi Delta groove, seasoned with smooth, weathered vocals and a propulsive harmonica wheeze.” Whether performing solo or fronting a band, playing electric or acoustic guitar, Bonneville allows space between notes that adds potency to every chord, lick, and lyric. Thom Jurek (Allmusic.com) remarks, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance… he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.” 

Often called a “song and groove man,” Bonneville has lived the life of the itinerant artist. From his native Quebec, he moved to Boston at age twelve, where he learned English and picked up piano and guitar. Later, he served in Vietnam and earned a pilot’s license in Colorado before living in Alaska, Seattle, and Paris. Six years in New Orleans infused his musical sensibilities with the region's culture and rhythms. And then, a close call while piloting a seaplane proved pivotal: After two decades working as a studio musician, playing rowdy rooms with blues bands, and living hard, Bonneville’s lifetime of hard-won experience coalesced into an urge to write his own music. 

Ray recorded his first album, On the Main, in 1992. He’s since released nine albums, including his October  2023 release, On The Blind Side, earned wide critical and popular acclaim, and won an enthusiastic following in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. His awards include a prestigious Juno, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy, for his 1999 album, Gust of Wind. In 2012, Ray won the solo/duet category in the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge. His post-Katrina ode, “I Am the Big Easy,” earned the International Folk Alliance’s 2009 Song of the Year Award, placed number one on Folk Radio’s list of most-played songs of 2008, and was recently covered by Jennifer Warnes for the BMG label. 

Other notable artists who have recorded his songs include Ronnie Hawkins (“Foolish”) and Slaid Cleaves (“Run Jolee Run”). Ray has shared the bill with blues heavyweights Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Dr. John, J.J. Cale, and Robert Cray, and has guested on albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and other prominent musicians. He has performed at renowned venues around the world, including South by Southwest, Folk Alliance, and Montreal International Jazz Festival, and plays over 100 shows per year across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. When not on the road, Ray divides his time between homes in Goulais River, Ontario and Austin, Texas.