See Nashville Americana artist Drew White in Atlanta on September 1 at Smith's Olde Bar in the Atlanta Room. An electric storyteller, Drew White is quickly establishing himself as one of the finest up-and-comers in the Nashville scene.

Drew White is an electric storyteller from Birmingham, Alabama. Hailing from the Gospel and Rock ‘n Roll roots of his hometown, White moved to Nashville in 2021. Since his arrival, White formed a band of friends and pushed his sound to venues, bars, and backyards around the southeast United States. He released his first record, Headspace in 2023, and is quickly establishing himself as one of the finest up-and-comers in the Nashville scene. His sophomore project, Concrete Americana, released in March 2025. He has been accoladed by WhiskeyRiff, International Songwriters Competition, The Unsigned Only Awards, and is set for a US Southeastern Tour in Fall 2026 before his next release.

Joshua Fletcher’s love for songwriting showed up early. Penning angsty christian punk songs for his first band, “The Knockout,” in the back of public school classrooms in the Atlanta suburbs where he was raised, he fell in love with the ability of a song to speak to the entirety of a feeling - the way it can mark time, or turn the fleeting into the eternal. At nearly 40, Fletcher is a long way from the urgent, useless angst of a suburban teen. The songs he writes today are reflections of places in time - of a life spent collecting stories, and the dreams that shift into themselves the more we chase them. They are a way for him to reckon with a world whose relentless changes we are never fully prepared to bear.

Joshua Fletcher spent most of 2025 slowly working on his fourth studio album at Atlanta’s Big Trouble Studios, where he worked alongside producer/engineer TJ Elias (Manchester Orchestra, Summer Rental) with help from Dan Gleason and Benjamin Homola (Grouplove), Johnny Dang (O’brother, Hisself), and more. Tentatively titled Orthodoxy, this collection of songs reflects the changing worldviews of a husband and parent, the loss of faith, and the ways in which we try to rebuild it.

Eli Blackshear, winner of the 56th Bi-Annual Eddie’s Attic Shootout, is a singer-songwriter and folk musician based in Decatur, GA. Eli blends country, blues, and folk music into captivating tales of average working-class folk and provides heart wrenching lyrics of truth and endearment to create an atmosphere wholly authentic and thought-provoking. His sound seamlessly melds timeless soul with modern grit, delivering raw, authentic performances that are grounded in activism, storytelling, and emotional depth.