Name: Clay Street Unit
Start: 2026-02-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Terminal West

Zero Mile Presents
CLAY STREET UNIT
Cris Jacobs
FRI, 13 FEB 2026 at 08:00PM EST
Ages: All Ages
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 at 12:00PM EST
Announcement: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 at 12:00PM EST
"Whenever we're onstage, we're just trying to throw a party," says Clay Street Unit's Sam Walker. "Life's hard enough already. We want to remind people to let loose, love each other, and enjoy themselves."
Celebration. Catharsis. Friendship. It's all part of Sin & Squalor, Clay Street Unit's fulllength debut. Recorded in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and inspired by the sounds of the Appalachians, it's a record that blurs the borders between genre and geography. The result is a singular interpretation of American roots music — a sound that mixes the acoustic instrumentation of bluegrass and folk with the amplified energy of Americana and country. Driven forward by drums, sharp songwriting, and the chemistry of six good friends and musical brothers who've shared countless hours on stage, Sin & Squalor doesn't just nod to Clay Street Unit's wide spread of influences; it reshapes them into something new.
Everything began in Denver, Colorado, where Clay Street Unit formed in 2021. Many of the band's members — mandolinist Scottie Bolin, banjo player Jack Cline, pedal steel guitarist Brad Larrison, drummer Brendan Lamb, and singer/guitarist/ringleader Sam Walker — had grown up elsewhere, spending their teenage years in cities like Atlanta, Charlottesville and Montgomery. Coming together in Colorado where they added bassist Jack Kotarba, they mixed the southern soundtrack of their youths with the raw, rugged spirit of the West. After building an audience at local venues like Cervantes, the guys hit the road, where the very thing that once made their music so difficult to categorize — the sheer diversity of their sound — became one of their calling cards.
"We played bluegrass events, folk festivals, and country venues," Walker says of those early shows, which the bandmates often booked themselves. "We were able to share our music with so many different demographics and dip our toes into different pools, and what we realized is, it's all pretty similar. Our music seemed to meet everyone in the middle."
Between their cross-country tours, Clay Street Unit found time to head back home to Denver, where they recorded Sin & Squalor with producer (and co-founder of the Grammy-winning Infamous Stringdusters) Chris Pandolfi. Harnessing the electricity of the band's live show felt like a natural goal, but the guys pushed for something deeper too, showcasing the songwriting chops that had evolved since the release of their introductory EP, A Mighty Fine Evening, in 2022. "We recorded A Mighty Fine Evening in three hours on a Wednesday night, with a case of beer," Walker remembers. "It was a great representation of who we were at the time, but we wanted to capture something deeper and emotionally vulnerable with this album. Sin & Squalor grapples with some heavier concepts, and we tried to do so in a relatable way."