The Story
Two strangers. One broken-down bus. A thousand songs.
How It Started
It was the summer of 2019, somewhere on the outskirts of Memphis, when a tour bus carrying two separate acts broke down on the side of Route 61. Brik had a guitar. Monty had a harmonica and a flask of bourbon. Neither had anywhere better to be.
They played through the night on the shoulder of the highway, drawing in a small crowd of truckers and insomniacs. By the time the tow truck arrived at dawn, they'd written three songs and made a pact to keep going.
What followed was two years of relentless touring — dive bars, county fairs, festival stages, and front porches. They built their sound the old-fashioned way: by playing it in front of real people until it was undeniable.
We don't really think about genre. We just play what's honest.
The Players
Brik
Raised in the Mississippi Delta, Brik grew up on a steady diet of Robert Johnson, Townes Van Zandt, and whatever was on the radio. He picked up his first guitar at age nine and never put it down. His playing is raw, deliberate, and deeply rooted in the blues tradition — but with a restlessness that keeps it from ever sitting still.
Monty
Monty grew up in Appalachia, where music was something you made on the porch, not something you watched on a screen. He came to the harmonica through his grandfather and to the piano through a brief, disastrous stint at a Catholic school. His voice carries the weight of both — something ancient and something restless.
The Road So Far
Met on a broken-down tour bus outside Memphis. Wrote three songs overnight.
First full tour — 47 shows in 60 days across the South and Midwest.
Released Memphis Porch Sessions — recorded live on a front porch in three days.
Featured at Americana Music Festival, Nashville. Sold out three consecutive nights.
Debut studio album Dust & Diesel released. 200+ shows that year.
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