Hunter Blalock, Brian Revels, and Jon Dell

Hunter Blalock is a songwriter who doesn’t shy away from the heavy stuff. With a well worn pen, a beat-up guitar, and a voice that feels like late nights on the road, he writes songs that say the things most people are afraid to. His music digs into the raw, real parts of life. The quiet battles, the heartbreaks, the unspoken truths, offering connection in places where silence usually lives.

Proudly from Northwest Georgia, Hunter carries the grit, grace, and storytelling spirit of home into everything he does. The place, its people, its stillness, its struggles, shaped him as both an artist and a person.

He’s been touring for years, carving out a space on stages big and small, and building a humble following one honest song at a time. His debut record, Cherokee Hills, released in November 2024, captures that spirit—stories wrapped in melody, meant to meet people where they are.

In 2025, he followed it up with The Ear Bonez Sessions, a live EP recorded in Athens, Georgia. Tracked in a side room, in real time, the project leans into the grit and intimate nature of his performances. No polish to hide behind, no walls between the songs and the listener, just the sound of a writer and the weight of the words. It’s a snapshot of who he is on stage. Unfiltered, present, and fully committed to the moment.

Hunter doesn’t chase fame, he chases truth. Whether it’s a dim-lit venue or the corner of a dive, his songs carry a kind of quiet gravity, and find you when you need them most.

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Brian Revels is energy and angst in a comet trail of music that is as perceptive as it is entertaining. His observations of Americana ring with authenticity.

Revels lives in Rochester, NY, where he’s put down roots with his wife and son, but he cut his teeth as a wily veteran of the Atlanta, Georgia music scene. Before forming his current ensemble, The Heat Lightning, he helped to build the folk trio, City Mouse, into a regional force, sharing stages with acts like The Steeldrivers, Parker Milsap, The Whiskey Gentry, and Faye Webster.
Brian Revels & The Heat Lightning made their streaming debut on 2020’s “Jasper County Blues” which Immersive Atlanta called “a collection of stories set between the opening of saloon doors and the desperation of last call.”

Revels draws from folk, blues, country, and bluegrass, is an alternative to them all, and a better man for their influences. He’s a multi-instrumentalist and a natural-born storyteller with a poetic edge. The hole he’s worn in his guitar is not as large as the one he’s worn in his heart with the care of the lives he hopes he can redeem one song at a time. His timeless musicality will touch your soul with the drama and significance of love lost and regained, of the human frailty that reduces and yet ennobles each of us.

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Jon Dell is an American songwriter, guitarist, and music educator. Currently based in Brooklyn, his latest release "I Love You And Wish You The Best" explores weighty topics such as terminal disease, lost love, second chances and most things in between. All this, while still maintaining his trademark gallows humor. The fact that his songs tread the line between dolor and blissful jubilance so well is a testament to Dell’s deftness as a storyteller and his uncommon sensibilities as a songwriter. Having played in bands since his early teens, he has played hundreds of shows coast to coast, sharing the stage with artists such as Charley Crockett, BJ Barham, Justin Wells, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, and many, many others.

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