Songwriter Round w/ Drew Young, Bud Tower & Emilee Shuler

Drew Young

The Drew Young Band has been around in one form or another for the better part of 2 decades. Drew has been crisscrossing the globe soaking up stories and experiences and translating the human experience into songs of longing, love, loss and learning. Drew has been co-writing with some of the top writers across the globe and is constantly writing, touring, and recording. During the Lockdown of 2020, with life of the road no longer an option, Drew began a comprehensive re-invention and spent a full year writing and recording music. It was at this time that Drew also realized that alcohol was no longer serving his life. Hence, the name of the new Album “ Bourbon and Bad Decisions." This decision has proven to be a huge creative win and the joys of sobriety continue to grow daily. A series of Nashville recording session, with some of the top session players in Music City, resulted in 60 completed songs. Drew has been releasing the songs as singles and to date there has been an aggregate of over 3 Million streams across his catalog and the numbers continue to grow.

Drew has been ramping up his live appearances . With shows in New Orleans, Mississippi, Atlanta, New York and all points in between. The international road beckoned with some of the highlights being the Maverick Festival, and The Long Road Festival in the UK, Live at Heart in Sweden, Camden Club, The Green Note and The Bedford in London, UK and multiple appearances around the UK. Refreshingly honest, defiantly original and always mercurial and insightful, Drew’s music is sure to connect and resonate.

Bud Tower

Award-winning singer-songwriter Bud Tower hails from New Orleans and Nashville and now lives in Florida. He has performed at songwriter festivals around the country including the Sandy Lee Watkins Festival in Henderson, KY; New Orleans Songfest; Key Largo Songfest; Mississippi Coast Songwriters Festival; Key West, etc. He’s been a featured performer at many Nashville singer-songwriter clubs including the Bluebird, Douglas Corner, and The Commodore Lounge. His songs have been recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams, Jr., Buddy Jewell, Zydeco artist Waylon Thibodeaux, and many indie artists in the U.S. and Europe. His songs have been in major screen works including movie Foodfight! starring Charlie Sheen and Eva Longoria and documentary One Note At A Time, chronicling New Orleans’ recovery from Hurricane Katrina, and TV series Panhandle, streaming on Spectrum TV. Tower has lectured at Loyola University in New Orleans and Southern Mississippi University. He’s also authored pieces on songwriting, including for American Songwriter Magazine.

Emilee Shuler

Emilee Shuler is a Mobile native and music lover to the core. Music has always been a part of her life, whether she was performing in musical theater, karaoke, performing at voice recitals, or later, writing her own music and playing open mics and various live gigs. After many trials and tribulations accompanied by a decade of writer's block, the music coming out is mostly cathartic since conquering sobriety and finding the Lord again, and she is still searching for her sound. For now, she is just allowing whatever comes out of her heart and soul to pour out and bringing raw emotion and authenticity to whatever she performs.

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