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. 

Avi Vinocur - Solo Bio - Summer 2025 

Avi Vinocur is a San Francisco Bay Area singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer with a talent for crafting vivid, three-dimensional narrators and slice-of-life tales set in forgotten places. Vinocur has made a name for himself as a songwriter’s songwriter: a modern musician with an old soul’s gift for storytelling. 

Vinocur is best known for his work as a co-frontman of the acclaimed Americana band Goodnight, Texas; for his poignant bedroom folk solo records; and, increasingly over the past 7 years, as an occasional collaborator and live background vocalist/guitar and mandolin player for Metallica. (His songs have also made appearances in places like the opening credits to Tiger King, the Academy Award-winning documentary Free Solo, Coors commercials, and Major League Baseball games. Vinocur has performed the National Anthem before the first pitch four times at Oracle Park and Wrigley Field.) 

Hindsight, Vinocur’s third full-length solo record, was recorded entirely on Vinocur’s iPhone in his apartment in San Francisco’s Sunset District during the Pandemic, Hindsight echoes the intimate, demo-type sound of records by the Mountain Goats, Field Medic, or Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska. It also feels a bit like rediscovering a cassette mixtape from a friend in an old glove compartment. 

2025 brings LAPDOG, a full length grunge-folk record (it’ll make sense when you hear it) compiled entirely of songs written about his dog Ollie and/or the end of the world. 

Avi has spent the last year busy with Goodnight, Texas - touring and promoting 2024’s LP Signals. Also recently, Avi appeared again in December 2024 with Metallica in Los Angeles for their All Within My Hands Foundation benefit pay-per-view performance playing mandolin, acoustic and electric guitar and singing.