2016 Schedule

Interactive: March 11–15  •  Film: March 11–19  •  Music: March 15–20

Judah & the Lion

Saturday, March 19
10:00PM - 10:40PM

Lamberts
401 W 2nd St

Artist-2047

Listen to Take It All Back

Years before forming one of Nashville's most genre-bending bands, the members of Judah & the Lion grew up in separate corners of the U.S., listening to every type of music that came their way. They loved it all: the twang of folk, the beat of hip-hop, the drive of rock & roll, the punch of pop. Later, after college brought all four musicians to Tennessee, it only made sense to combine those different backgrounds — and different sounds — together.
With their second full-length album, Folk Hop N Roll, the guys shine a light on the place where their influences overlap. It's a wide-ranging sound, with fuzz bass, hip-hop percussion, distorted banjo riffs, and super-sized melodies all stirred into the same mixing pot.
"There's no boundaries," says frontman Judah Akers, who shares the band's lineup with drum- mer Spencer Cross, mandolin player Brian Macdonald, and banjo wiz Nate Zuercher. "We wanted to make something raw, someth...

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