Hailing from such southern blues and alt-country jam bands as Evan Barber & the Dead Gamblers and Wainwright Applegate, multi-instrumentalist Jeb Tabb plans to release his own solo album in the next six months. While Tabb has temporarily set aside the crunchy grooves of his bands for simplicity and straightforwardness, all the edgy honesty of his lyricism remains on display. Tabb straddles no proverbial lines; he stomps on them with steel-toed boots. His songs careen from hell-bound to heartbroken and back again with simultaneously calculated and accidental, perhaps even self-medicated, ease. Tabb identifies his own Damascus as “a rural southwest Georgia town of two hundred people” and speaks fondly of having had the opportunity to “meet other musicians” through touring and becoming a veteran of his hometown’s Briar Patch Music Festival. Southern to the core, Tabb is sure to become a favorite amongst fans of gritty, rebel-folk songwriting.