ERIC BRACE is the lead singer and songwriter for the renowned roots rock band and mood orchestra Last Train Home. PETER COOPER is a music journalist, professor of country music, and a highly acclaimed songwriter in his own right. When they play together, it's something special. Granted, the words of both have passed through cerebral cortexes more often in print than in song. But the two veteran music journalists were musicians before they were published scribes, which provides them with a ready answer to the comment all critics perpetually receive: If you know so much, why don't you create your own record? So they did. With their first duets album, You Don't Have to Like Them Both on Red Beet Records, they can gang up on anyone slinging snark their way. Fitting the wise-guy title, the collection comes across like a smart mix tape by a couple of well-versed, opinionated music fans. The duo's 2nd album, Master Sessions, is a tour de force with two of their instrumental musical heroes: Lloyd Green on pedal steel, Mike Auldridge on dobro. Their latest project is the Grammy-nominated and critically acclaimed I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow, also on Red Beet Records. "Eric Brace and Peter Cooper bring the sound of East Nashville to my radio shows. Authentic, intelligent and beautifully played...." ~Bob Harris, BBC Radio

Recently relocated to Nashville, TN, DOUG AND TELISHA Williams hail from Martinsville, VA, where boarded up factories stand as monuments to how fast the world can change. When they write and sing songs about dying small towns, they know what they’re talking about: The unemployment rate where they come from is 20.2 %. The songs for their latest record, Ghost of the Knoxville Girl, came from stories told across kitchen tables or between friends after a couple of pitchers at the Ten Pin. Like the very best singer-songwriters, this duo gives a voice to the struggles of everyday people, as well ghosts of the past. “When we opened for Charlie Louvin and heard him sing his amazing 'Knoxville Girl',” says Telisha, “I had to wonder about her side of the story. All I had to do was ask and she told us.” Wherever they go Doug and Telisha always make quick friends with their audience, pulling them right into their lives. “That’s what it’s all about for us,” says Doug, “being out there, playing on the road, meeting people. Everything else is just... everything else.” No matter how far they roam, Doug and Telisha always find their way back home: A place that holds tight to the intricacies and contradictions of life in the south today. A place where in just one set, Doug & Telisha can send audience members to their feet in applause, to their knees in prayer, and back to the bar to buy another beer. Welcome back to the Uncle, y'all!