Eric Pettit Lion

Like the gritty Mississippi River they resides by, Eric Pettit Lion can't stop. And won't stop. Which is what happens when a band fine tunes a sound and hits their stride. EP Lion has morphed into a mainstay in the Iowa music scene. It's pretty amazing these guys are able to hold down day jobs. The family duo of Pettit and Ed Mansheim are at the helm with Micah Oleson on bass and Josh Gahn on drums

Since the burgeoning sessions, which debuted the album We are in Rome (2013), EP Lion has two more full length albums including Lion (2014) Electric Lies (2016) and two recent EPs, One Shot (2017) and Brotherly (2019) keep the momentum of this dynamic band archived. Their Americana sound has developed over the last decade into something fantastic.

EP Lion continue the classic river metaphor by creating music that everyone can relate to with the passage of time. Brazenly raw music about real issues with real consequences heading downstream.