Garrett Wheeler

GARRETT WHEELER: Stuck somewhere between country, punk, and unbridled rock & roll, Garrett Wheeler's music has something for just about everyone. Since becoming musically active and gigging heavily as a teenager, Garrett has played countless shows across Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and more of the southeast. Playing anywhere from acclaimed music venues and listening rooms, to dive bars where you'd be afraid to touch the door handles. IF I DON’T SEE YOU FOR A WHILE is Garrett’s newest EP. The record is a barn burner, with audible influences of bands like The Replacements , Lucero , and The Hold Steady. RR WILLIAMS: R.R. Williams is a lot of things, and none of them are easily or quickly explained. These are songs about an American life from the honest-to-god user end, but believe you me- they waste not a single second muddling around in minutia. Williams’ writing quickly guides listeners straight into the belly of the beast; the deepest dwellings where the smoke is thick as the darkness; where we dare to ask our most honest questions of the universe. These are urgent matters; Purpose, Fate, Destiny, Redemption. There’s perverse and bizarre nuance to this modern life that doesn’t fit into a genre, a time, or a place necessarily. The fibers of the here don’t always intertwine with the fibers of the now as they once did, and the spaces where those knots have slipped are where these songs pick up the slack. But don’t let all this philosophical mumbo jumbo distract anyone from the fact that these are rock’n’roll songs. The radio may want you to think that thoughtful and expansive lyrics don’t pair well with catchy hooks and rowdy guitar tone, but R.R. Williams certainly doesn’t want you to think that. Not for a second.” RYAN LOCKHART: Ryan Lockhart is the son of a coal miner’s daughter, and a singer of honest songs.