Featured Artists

Tanner Usrey is a Texas-born country singer-songwriter who grew up in the small town of Prosper, TX, gravitating toward music from an early age. By five, he was belting out Alan Jackson songs nonstop—“I was the kid who sang all the time,” he laughs. After seeing Wade Bowen and Brandon Rhyder live in high school, his path came into focus. Inspired by artists like George Strait, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones, and Whiskey Myers, Usrey picked up a guitar, wrote relentlessly, and cut his teeth anywhere there was a stage. While holding down a job as a skip tracer, he quietly honed his signature sound before quitting in 2019 to release the Medicine Man EP, which spawned breakout tracks “Come Back Down” and “Beautiful Lies,” amassing tens of millions of streams.

Known for his electrifying, high-energy live shows, Usrey spent the following years relentlessly on the road, releasing the SÕL Sessions EP and logging over 180 shows in 2022 alone. His song “The Light” notably appeared in the finale of Yellowstone Season 4, further cementing his rise. Signing with Atlantic Records, he launched 2023 with “Take Me Home,” followed by “Give It Some Time,” a raw, organ-laced track that builds to a scorching guitar solo. Grounded in honesty and hard-earned momentum, Usrey’s music speaks for itself. “I hope you hear what you want to hear, enjoy it, resonate with it, and know it’s real,” he says. “It’s been a wild ride—but people are going after real music right now, and that’s great.”

Shane Smith & The Saints built their career the old-school way: by hitting the stage and winning over the crowd, song after song, night after night. Launched in Austin by Terrell, Texas native Shane Smith, the band spent nearly a decade playing dive bars and small clubs, often performing four-hour sets — sometimes back-to-back — and hanging at the merch booth until the staff literally kicked them out. “That’s how we built this thing,” Smith says. Those years of raw, redemptive performances turned fans into friends and helped the Saints grow tighter as a band, experiment with their sound, and find their identity. Influenced by everything from Appalachian and Celtic-inspired folk and bluegrass to classic rock and cinematic indie, the group let their sound evolve into something truly unique.

That road-tested foundation paid off with sold-out shows at bucket-list venues like Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Ryman Auditorium, along with an appearance on Yellowstone. Their fourth studio album, Norther — named after the northern winds that blow across Texas during the winter — captures the band at their most colorful, blending country, folk, and roadhouse rock & roll into a hard-hitting version of American roots music. For an independent band like Shane Smith and the Saints, the work is never done, but Norther stands as the soundtrack to a decade spent pushing limits, broadening their reach, and building a beautiful, meaningful audience.