WV Native Erik Huey returns to The Empty Glass, w Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, Starbelly, The Charleston Rogues + Unmanned. Erik Vincent Huey is an Appalachian Americana singer-songwriter from Morgantown, WV whose second full-length solo LP—Fort Defiance—will be released on February 13, 2026. To celebrate, he’s bringing together Charleston musicians The Charleston Rogues and Unmanned to join him, producer/guitarist Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, and Baltimore Power Pop gurus Starbelly for a Capitol City Jamboree! Can’t wait to see you!
Fort Defiance was produced by “The Godfather of Americana” Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, the legendary Rock ‘n’ Roll guitarist (Joan Jett, Del-Lords, Steve Earle & The Dukes) and producer (Bottle Rockets, Jimbo Mathus, Yayhoos, Sarah Borges). It features guest vocal appearances by Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Guns & Roses), Sarah Borges, and musical backing Baltimore power pop phenoms Starbelly, who toured the US and internationally with Erik after his last album.
Fort Defiance was recorded at Ambel’s Cowboy Technical Services in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is the follow up to 2023’s critically acclaimed solo debut Appalachian Gothic, which garnered him comparisons to Woody Guthrie (Folk & Tumble), Bruce Springsteen, and Dave Alvin (Alternate Root). The LP was hailed by Americana UK as “the Appalachian Tommy,” garnering a 4.5 / 5 star review by American Songwriter, who called the album a “mesmerizing, unforgettable major work.”
The son of four generations of coal miners, Erik grew up along the banks of the Monongahela River in West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania, and recently relocated to Austin from Washington, DC. He came of age on The Clash, X and the Sex Pistols, but never truly escaped his Appalachian roots. From the cowpunk on-ramp of The Blasters, The Beat Farmers, Jason & the Scorchers, and Dwight Yoakam, he wandered upstream along the Hillbilly Highway until he rediscovered Johnny Cash and George Jones—artists he’d listened to as a kid in the cab of his Uncle Jack’s 18-wheeler.
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The Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St,Charleston, West Virginia, United States
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