Nick Hans with Greg Brown

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NICK HANS writes songs drawing primarily from his own life – sometimes dark, sometimes beautiful. He left Tennessee in his late teens and began crisscrossing the country by freight train, working seasonal jobs, farming, and living in punk and radical communities. When he found a cassette tape with Leadbelly on one side and Woody Guthrie on the other, he was blown away by the beauty and power of those legendary musicians and their songs. He picked up a beat-up Stella guitar, and has been writing and playing his own songs ever since. HANS spent many years living in New Orleans, playing shows and busking with an ever-changing cast of musicians, including his previous bands the Sluetown Strutters and the Stay All Night Rounders. He currently lives in Taos, New Mexico, where he continues to farm, work, and write music.

GREG BROWN

Original ‘Cake’ band guitarist Gregory Brown is set to release his first solo record.  Titled ‘The End of Something New’,  it is a sonically lo-fi (yet not amateurish) experience, deliberately focused on Brown’s remarkable lyricism and musicianship instead of polished studio gloss.