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Garrison Starr thought she was done playing music. A lifetime of trauma, from her upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian household in Mississippi to more than two decades navigating the music industry, left her spirit broken. With her days as a major-label artist behind her, the Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, and producer was ready to pack it in.

"I felt that what I had to say didn't matter to anybody. That I was a failure," says Starr. "I'm just gonna stop trying. So I did."

"Then I realized I am the artist in the room. I still have a lot to say," Starr recalls. "That was a great gift. I thought that part of my life was over. I thought I was too old, too outspoken, too this, too that. I'm not good enough for this industry."

"I used to be that girl trying so hard to please everybody, to do the right thing in everybody else's eyes," Starr says. "But I can't be that anymore. I know what you want me to be, but I'm not that person. I can't do it. I'm dying inside. I can't hold back."

Starr's singing is both warm and bold, her words softened by the perspective gained from her cohorts without losing the fire of her convictions. She mixes compassion with a sense of purpose that hearkens back to the message-forward spirit of the 1960s folk movement. It's a matter, she says, of being pointed without being angry. "One of the things I've learned is that, if you want to communicate something to somebody, you have to do it in a way that they can hear you," Starr says.

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Louisiana-born Andy Davis broke onto the scene in 2004 with a charming, acoustic debut called “Thinks of Her,” that quickly spread among college campuses nationwide.  Based in Nashville, TN then, Davis quickly hit the road opening for artists such as Jakob Dylan, Colbie Caillat, needtobreathe, and more, collecting fans one city at a time.  

Since then, Davis has released six studio albums, including two produced by Mitchell Froom (Randy Newman, Crowded House, Sheryl Crow), one of which was made possible by a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $41,000.  Davis was also a founding member of the “Ten Out of Tenn,” a critically-acclaimed collective of Nashville singer/songwriters (Katie Herzig, Matthew Perryman Jones, Andrew Belle, etc) who joined forces for a collaborative tour, documented in the film, “Any Day Now.”

In 2018, Davis launched a project called “Save the Song Fairies,” where he wrote and recorded a new song every week for the entire year—52 songs in 52 weeks—and releasing them exclusively to his song club members (at www.patreon.com/andydavis). In 2019 he also launched an online community called FINISHIT (www.finishit.club) where members commit to their own 52-week creative challenges and share their work each week for accountability and encouragement.

A multi-instrumentalist with old-school charm, a 12-year track record, and a pulse for the often irregular heartbeat of human relationships, Andy Davis continues to engage longtime fans and win new ones.