Wild Ponies

Wild Ponies - Mamma Bird

Although they're based in Nashville, Wild Ponies have always looked to Southwest Virginia — where bandmates Doug and Telisha Williams were both born and raised — for inspiration. There, in mountain towns like Galax, old-time American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers, and fans.

Wild Ponies pay tribute to that powerful music and rugged landscape with their most recent release Galax, a stripped-back album that nods to the band's history while still pushing forward. Doug and Telisha took some of their favorite musicians from Nashville (Fats Kaplin, Will Kimbrough, Neilson Hubbard and Audrey Spillman) and met up with revered Old-Time players from Galax, Virginia (Snake Smith, Kyle Dean Smith, and Kilby Spencer). Recorded in the shed behind Doug’s old family farm in the Appalachians (steps away from the site where Doug and Telisha were married), it returns Wild Ponies to their musical and geographic roots.



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Events featuring Wild Ponies

Mar 16, 2019
10:00pm — 10:40pm
Presented by
Green Room Music Source
About
From:
Nashville, TN
Genre:
Subgenre:
Alt Country
Professional Connections
Wild Ponies is seeking the following:
  • Label
  • Brand Partnership
  • Gear Endorsement
  • Publishing
  • Sync/Music Supervisors