Drayton Farley Special Duo Performance Feat. Jimmy Teardrop W/ Support From Landon Smith at Eddie's Attic

From the venue:

Drayton Farley Special Duo Performance feat. Jimmy Teardrop live at Eddie's Attic w/ support from Landon Smith!

Only a few years ago, the life Drayton Farley now lives seemed nothing short of a pipe dream. There he was — working the railroads, strumming his guitar, singing his songs for his ass-busting coworkers, dreaming about the life of a touring musician.

A proud disciple of the vulnerable, evocative Southern storytelling made famous by Jason Isbell, Tyler Childers, and Sturgill Simpson, Farley has beaten the odds in a big way. Through no shortage of innate talent, true grit, and undeniable work ethic, the Alabama-raised singer-songwriter earned himself a dedicated fanbase, a Grand Ole Opry debut, and gigs sharing the stage with Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Ryan Bingham.

Now he's releasing his most complete and unflinching artistic statement to date — A Heavy Duty Heart — a meditation on love, risk, and dreams slowly becoming real. Poignantly written, beautifully sung, and produced by the acclaimed Sadler Vaden (Jason Isbell), it's the record that properly introduces Farley as a musical talent to be reckoned with.

"It was like winning the lottery in slow motion," he says. "A truth that slowly showed itself."

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Landon Smith

No matter how old you are or where you’re from, Landon Smith might just have a song for you. Landon delivers his stories with the raw grit, hard-earned experience, and the wise-beyond-his-years perspective of an old school troubadour, pulling no punches as he strums his guitar and sings as loudly as possible.

The 21-year-old Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist serves up post-Millennial Americana spiked with dyed-in-the-wool country storytelling and surges of rock ‘n’ roll energy. Growing up forty-five minutes south of Atlanta in McDonough, GA, he played in bands throughout middle school and high school, and he gained his first recording experience on an iPad with Garage Band. Simultaneously, he obsessed over a myriad of favorite artists, listening to everyone from Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, and Rainbow Kitten Surprise to Deftones and Jason Isbell. During college, he gigged locally solo. Around the same time an acoustic TikTok post of his first single “If You Want Me Tonight” went viral. It eventually reeled in north of 10.6 million Spotify streams, paving the way for “July 6th” and “Taking Off to Tennessee.” Between performing shows with Tyler Halverson and Uncle Lucius, he supported Gavin Adcock on tour. Stacking up tens of millions of streams independently and attracting the likes of GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Dave Cobb Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton to his corner.