Best known as the Emmy-nominated makers of “Long Hard Times to Come,” the theme song to the hit FX drama, Justified, Gangstagrass is back with American Music, the 4th installment of bluegrass/hip-hop released through the Rench Audio Label. Performed with real hip-hop MCs, real bluegrass instrumentalists and produced by lead singer/ guitarist Rench — who Rolling Stone Magazine named “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know: April 2017” — American Music contains 14 cuts of both original and traditional music with a twist. After 3 independent releases, American Music is the first Gangstagrass LP that has charted on Billboard, a feat done without any label assistance (#5 Billboard bluegrass charts for 3 weeks.) With a new live album in the works for a potential late 2018 release, Gangstagrass will continue in its uncompromising effort to make music that is both authentic and unpretentious — and family friendly, when requested, that is.
As the late Elmore Leonard put it “Rench and his friends have done nothing short of creating a new form of music.”
Tour dates:
May 31 – Brooklyn – Hill Country
June 1 – DC – Hill Country
June 4 – Lancaster PA – Tellus360
July 14 Bethlehem NH – Colonial Theater Bethlehem
July 15 Somerville MA – Thunder Road
July 16 Saratoga Springs NY – Caffe Lena
July 21 – Columbus – Rumba Cafe
July 22 – Indianapolis – Hi Fi
July 23 – Evanston IL – Space
July 24th- Davenport, Iowa- Daytrotter
July 26th- Nashville- The Country- Free Show
July 28 – Lexington – Willies Locally Known
July 30 – Durham – Motorco
You can also check out a new video from the band’s front man Rench performing the song “Forty Dollar Dress” as part of the Dirt City Sessions:
Top photo: Michael Bush
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Omg. You are coming back to Nashville in July. I’m definitely coming to the show wearing my Gangstagrass t-shirt. Totally excited and might round up the people that I told about you to come and see you live.