Gabe Lee with Sophie Gault

Thu Aug 01 2024 at 07:30 pm UTC-04:00

3227 N. Davidson Street,Charlotte,28205,US | Charlotte

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Gabe Lee with Sophie Gault
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Songwriter, storyteller, folk artist
Gabe Lee
Equal parts classic songwriter and modern-day storyteller, Gabe Lee has built his own bridge between country, folk and rock. Lee has been collecting stories for years, both onstage and off. "I used to bartend," says the Nashville-based songwriter, "which means I was also a cheap therapist for whomever happened to be sitting on the barstool. Whether they were there to celebrate or drink away their problems, I heard about whatever they were going through. It was my job to have that face-to-face interaction — that connection. Being a full-time musician isn't much different."
With critically-acclaimed albums like 2019's farmland, 2020's Honky-Tonk Hell, and 2022's The Hometown Kid, Lee created that connection by delivering his own stories to an ever-growing audience. His fourth record, Drink the River, takes a different approach. This time, Lee isn't offering listeners a peek into his internal world; he's holding up a mirror to reflect their own.
Storytelling has been an anchor of Lee's music since the very beginning. Raised by Taiwanese parents in Nashville, TN, he left home during his teenage years and headed to Indiana, where he obtained college degrees in literature and journalism. Lee launched his career as a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigs to high-profile opening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, Molly Tuttle, and other artists who, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folk music) to his own headlining shows. Throughout it all, he drew upon the narrative skills he'd sharpened as a student. If albums like Honky-Tonk Hell and The Hometown Kid often unfolded like autobiographical entries from his road journal, then Drink the River shows an even broader range of his storytelling abilities. Lee isn't just writing songs about himself; he's writing songs about all of us. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring us a little closer together.
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Sophie Gault
A jammed zipper. A plywood guitar. A beat up Buick. On her sophomore record, Baltic Street Hotel, Sophie Gault’s curation of unsuspecting totems becomes a breadcrumb trail. Her shrewd but vitally sincere lyricism is steered by impressive guitar work and sturdy vocals, steeped in equal parts honey and rust, as fleeting moments assume the role of something more precious. An exploration of Gault’s experience with bipolar disorder, Baltic Street Hotel sees the Nashville singer, songwriter, and guitarist seeking a path to forgiveness in many forms.
“Over & Out” opens reverb-heavy like the echo of overthinking, Gault's dulcet tones of redemption pleading, "Don’t you know that I’m only human / I’m only doing things the best way I know how / Trying to figure it out / don’t give up on me now." Whether speaking to herself or a long lost friend, her words call for understanding and leniency, a reminder that there is always more beneath the surface of any one person’s actions. Her unwavering voice turns ominous and storied amid chugs of swampy bass on the outlaw-inspired “Kid on the Radio" as she points out the importance of not trying to go it alone. Here, and on her anti-gospel ode to self-destruction "Kick the Devil Away," Gault is joined by a backing “choir of angels” that includes fellow Nashville recording artists Lilly Hiatt and Jon Latham.
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