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Jackson Holte is a musician, writer, and mule packer. His first solo record, Sky Blues, will be released on October 17th. In 2025, he won the Wyoming Singer-Songwriter Competition and the Montana Quarterly’s Big Snowy Prize for creative non-fiction.
Sky Blues is cinematic folk music, a loosely autobiographical concept album about what Marilynne Robinson called "the attentive quiet at the center of Western life" and Tom Edwards called "the hush of the land." The twelve collected songs are alluring, unadorned, patient, spacious, rarely sympathetic, devotional.
“I love the contemporary songwriters doing this kind of thing like Gregory Alan Isakov and Jeffrey Foucault, but Sky Blues is just as much influenced by prose authors like Mark Spragg, Gretel Ehrlich, and Ivan Doig,” Holte says. “The record is decidedly Western, but we really worked to keep it subtle and grounded. Singing these songs feels good. They’ve got the breath of the land and space for me to move around in them.”
“Jackson Holte writes spare, laconic, sky-wide songs.” – Jeffrey Foucault
“Jackson Holte is one of us, one of the good ones.” – Pete Fromm
“Daunting, but also somehow cleansing. Music worthy of the wide landscape it’s painted on.” – Tom Catmull
“Sky Blues is a collection of heartfelt writing that listens like a true lived experience. Holte’s style is a nod to Lyle Lovett but with a voice all his own.” – Christy Hays
The Lucky Valentines
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“There’s a ‘rightness’ to them… Like they’re in each others’ heads”
These two have been making music together since the moment they met in 2009.
Their newest album, Losses, releases April 21, 2023. Losses is their most personal record yet- full of real life grief, observation on the connectivity of all things, and the hope that comes through trials of fire. It was recorded in one Heavenly, creative week at Dreamland Studio in Kingston NY. Each tune was tracked live, and then more magic was added on top. Josh Kaufman (Bonny Light Horseman, The National, Anais Mitchell, Josh Ritter) produced this album and gave each song such tender loving care that your ears will be enthralled from the first note.
TLV have written upward of eighty songs, and use a mix of folk melodic sensibilities, tight harmonies, and a whole lotta love to make sad things beautiful. Their sound could be bottled up as “Bruce Springsteen and Patty Griffin meet Shovels and Rope in a Gypsy Junkshop”. He sometimes uses a thirdhand suitcase as a kick drum, and the rotary phone from her father’s shop as a mic. She blends classical violin with raging folk passion. He channels John Prine and Hank Williams. They have played hundreds of live shows together and have been featured on MTPR’s Musician Spotlight, at Austin’s Iconic Hole in the Wall Cafe, the street dance and side stage of Red Ants Pants Music Festival, and were featured on the May 2022 episode of MTPBS’s award winning 11th and Grant with Erik Funk.
TLV blends homespun DIY folk and country sounds with fresh sonic energy; infused with cold heartache, electric wonder, razor sadness and fiery Joy, their music is made to be played on repeat.
Shaun and Jamie have four beautiful children together and find joy in gardening, performing, writing, homeschooling, and reading Lord of the Rings to their aspiring Justice Warriors. Their dream is to travel the world sharing music, and come home to a little farm with horses to ride, and goats to mow the lawn. For now, they live in a sweet little city, ride in a big ol’ van, and the kids do the lawn mowing.
