Live features Nashville’s Granville Automatic, songsmith Jason Hawk Harris
The intimate performance space at Live From The Divide celebrates the lineage and contemporary voice of the American Roots singer/songwriter, featuring talent from all over the country. Here’s a look at a few of the upcoming acts.
Texan folkster James Steinle performs on Friday, September 20th at 8pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
Based in Austin, the songwriter’s tunes take aim at topics such as Western decay, urban angst, faded love, and what he calls “typical county country” fare. His eclectic upbringing, spending large portions of his childhood in Saudi Arabia and Germany, aid in his unique worldview and subsequent song subject matter. Steinle has shared the stage with fellow Americana acts such as Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis, John Baumann, Jonny Burke, Michael Martin Murphey, Mike & the Moonpies, Jamie Lin Wilson, and Rodney Hayden. His recent album South Texas Homecoming was followed this summer by a live release, Live at Hole in the Wall.
Tennessee duo Granville Automatic follow on Saturday, September 21st at 8pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 7pm.
Led by a modern-day Linda Ronstadt, Granville Automatic writes songs the Associated Press calls “haunting tales of sorrow and perseverance.” With influences as diverse as The Smiths, Emmylou Harris, Simon & Garfunkel and Dawes, Granville Automatic has created a one-of-a-kind sound that revolves around their passion for storytelling. The duo, comprised of Nashville songwriters Vanessa Olivarez and Elizabeth Elkins, is named after a 19th-century typewriter. Their new album, Radio Hymns, is a concept record mining Nashville’s lost history from the two wives of city founder Timothy Demonbreun to the day in 1974 that the Ryman Auditorium was saved from the wrecking ball. Featured in USA Today and The New York Times, the album rocks and rolls, haunts and soars, and pays true homage to the mystery of Music City.
Country roots rock n’ roller Jason Hawk Harris is set for Wednesday, September 25th at 9pm. Tickets are $25 plus fees. Doors at 8pm.
Jason Hawk Harris hit rock bottom during the writing and recording of his debut full-length, Love & the Dark. In the last few years, the Houston-born-and-raised, Los Angeles-based musician endured life-altering hardships – illness, death, familial strife, and addiction – yet from these trials, a luxuriant and confident vision of art country emerged. With an unlikely background, Harris is a singer/guitarist/songwriter who walks his own line, one that touches on Lyle Lovett’s lyrical frankness, John Moreland’s punk cerebralism and Judee Sill’s mysticism and orchestral sensibility. There’s even the literary and sonic audacity of an early Steve Earle, an outlaw unafraid to embrace harmony. Following his 2017 EP Formaldehyde, Tobacco and Tulips, Love & the Dark is Harris’ personal narrative on death, struggle, and addiction, of a life deconstructed and reassembled.
Tickets are sold at the door, but these small shows are known to sell out quickly! Advance tickets are available at www.livefromthedivide.com where you can also find a complete list of upcoming shows. The Live studio is located at 627 E Peach St. in Bozeman. •