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🎟 For Fans of James Taylor, Mary Gauthier, Ellis Paul; singer-songwriter, folk, Americana 🎵—————
Native Pennsylvanian Craig Bickhardt rose to prominence as a songwriter in Nashville during the 1980s and 90s racking up an enviable string of cuts by Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, B. B. King, Poco, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, Randy Meisner (Eagles), Kathy Mattea, The Judds and Nicolette Larsen to name only a few.
His big break as a recording artist came in 1983 when he wrote and sang the closing theme for the Academy Award winning film TENDER MERCIES starring Robert Duvall and Tess Harper.
Bickhardt teamed up with fellow songwriters Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch to release a critically lauded CD that spawned three hit singles including Bickhardt’s “Givers and Takers” and the Bickhardt-Schuyler classic “This Old House”.
Since then, he has released a dozen CDs as a solo artist and as half of the duo Idlewheel with Poco bassist Jack Sundrud. A masterful performer himself, Bickhardt has shared stages with Bruce Springsteen, Judy Collins, Harry Chapin, Stephen Stills, Little Feat, Janis Ian and many others.
He has appeared on the PBS Television series Austin City Limits (as a member of S.K.B.) and has played over 2000 concerts including the Philadelphia Folk Festival, the New Bedford Folk Festival and the Kerrville Folk Festival. In 1986 Craig was drafted into the very first “Writers in the Round.”
According to Amy Kurland, founder and owner of Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, "Craig Bickhardt replaced Paul Overstreet in our first and most famous In The Round Foursome.
His songs are a mix of musical innovation and lyrical inspiration." (The Bluebird Scrapbook, Harper Collins, 2002) As Keith Urban puts in the same book, "I sat and listened as Thom Schuyler, Craig Bickhardt, Fred Knobloch and Don Schlitz took me from laughing, to thinking, to singing, to even crying over a damn old house." Craig’s most recent album, Outpourings,” made it to #2 on the Folk-DJ charts.
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Rooted in rhythmic rock & roll and sharp songwriting, Arcadia marks a turning point in Jesse Terry's career. It's the seventh original album from an award-winning musician who's spent much of the past decade on the move, playing 150 shows annually, bouncing between solo performances and full-band gigs. Arcadia captures both sides of that musical personality, finding room for amplified anthems one moment and intimate moments the next, showcasing just how wide Terry's reach can be. "There are so many different parts to all of us," he explains. "For me, I have the husband part, the father part, the songwriting part, the touring part… and I like embracing all those different sides with my music, too. I listen to just as much Tom Petty as I listen to James Taylor. As much acoustic Neil Young as electric Neil Young. There's a rock & roll side of me that's been waiting in the wings for some time now, and this is the first album to capture that side and present me as a whole artist." Arcadia is layered with dueling electric guitars, stacked vocal harmonies, and heartland hooks, all supplied by instrumentalists like Ethan Ballinger (Miranda Lambert, Lee Ann Womack), Ross McReynolds (Katie Pruitt, Becca Mancari), Sam Howard (Molly Tuttle, Joy Williams), Juan Solorzano (Ruston Kelly, Parker Millsap), and Danny Mitchell (Rodney Crowell, Anderson East). It's a big, bold sound — the sort of record that begs to be played in the car, windows rolled down, driving down the fast lane toward some new horizon. At the center of that sound is the craft Terry has been sharpening since his years in Nashville, back when he composed songs for others as a staff writer on Music Row. A grand-prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Terry established himself as a top-shelf songwriter and storyteller even before he built his audience as a solo artist, landing performances at bucket-list events like Bonnaroo and AmericanaFest along the way.
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