Gill Landry

Gill Landry is a two-time Grammy award winning singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, photographer, storyteller, shade tree mechanic, painter, ranch hand, linocut artist, etc. In his 20+ years as a writer/performer he’s released 5 solo albums and contributed to dozens of others with various artists on various labels while also touring extensively in the US and abroad. Raised between Louisiana and the Pacific Northwest, he was subject to many different music scenes growing up. He spent the first half decade of his performing life living out of a van busking the streets of New Orleans, the U.S. West Coast, and Europe. He made ends meet through day-labor, chipping slag from barges on the Intercoastal Canal, night shifts at a group home for non-verbal schizophrenics, a burrito jockey, a bicycle ricksha driver, tree planting in the wetlands of Oregon, collecting bottles, donating plasma, and other humble means. His early years seeking adventure close to the ground in a corporate conquered and increasingly homogenized America informs much of his songwriting. In the early 2000’s he met Old Crow Medicine Show playing in Jackson Square one Mardi Gras and in 2004 he joined them, recording and performing with the band from their van-and-trailer days in dives to headlining festivals and becoming members of the Grand Ol’ Opry.