Bears, Christian Lee Hutson, Milky Maze, Hank May

full disclosure? we're a bunch of mama's boys that like to cook hippy food. let's be doom friends.

To merely call Christian Lee Hutson an old soul would be to deny the vibrancy of his sound. Championed by LA Record as "sparse and graceful," Hutson writes songs that the SF Bay Guardian describes as, "... Foreboding, bluesy love ballads laden with longing nostalgia." Despite the maturity and commitment to tradition found in the 23-year-old singer-songwriter's songs, they vibrate with a youthful energy as if a drunk and sedentary George Jones was being channeled through a drunk and animated Conor Oberst.

Hutson's debut solo E.P. Will Never Break Up marked his stylistic shift away from the dustbowl-era sound of his past project The Driftwood Singers in favor of a more recent tradition of country songwriting in the vein of Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam. This lean towards the modern continued with Hutson's full-length debut The Hell With It, released on Trailer Fire Records in March 2013. The Hell With It found Hutson working once again alongside Grammy-nominated producer David Mayfield, who also produced the Driftwood Singers' debut.
Hutson released his second full-length solo album Yeah Ok, I Know last year, and in a non-traditional way. Instead of putting out the album in its entirety, Hutson released it in installments over the course of 2014. Each month, a new song was made available for digital download through Hutson's web site and Bandcamp page. The full album was released physically January 6.

Christian Lee Hutson still maintains the same rigorous touring schedule that took the Driftwood Singers across the U.S. and back any number of tread-wearing times, so come out and join him for a sour drink of some sort and some newborn songs that retain a feel so well-worn, weathered, and welcoming that they whimper and creak as they pull a stool out for you at the bar.