Ashland Craft W/ Luke Brown & The Jubilee at Eddie's Attic

From the venue:

Ashland Craft live at Eddie’s Attic! Ashland Craft hasn’t forgotten where she came from. Years before her blue-collar country anthems and honky-tonk spirit earned a national audience, she grew up in Piedmont, South Carolina, making her living as a bar singer. It wasn’t long before Ashland graduated to larger venues, playing to country fans on Cody Johnson’s arena tour and expanding her rock & roll fanbase as Marcus King Band’s opening act. Throughout it all, she remembered the dive bars and roadhouses that kick-started her career, molding her into a road warrior whose songs were every bit as strong as her work ethic. Those songs take center stage on Dive Bar Beauty Queen. Full of old-school storytelling and modern attitude, it’s the first self-produced album of Ashland’s career. She isn’t just a songwriter here, delivering amped-up autobiographical anthems about heartache and resilience in a raw, raspy voice sharpened by countless hours beneath the stage lights. She’s the album’s architect, too, creating a sound that splits the difference between country, southern soul, and rootsy rock & roll. Dive Bar Beauty Queen is a leap forward for Ashland, but it finds her looking to the past, too, saluting the sounds and stories that first inspired her to become a traveling musician. “I wanted to give people a glimpse of the person I’ve always been, even before I released Travelin’ Kind,” she says, nodding to the critically-acclaimed debut album that arrived in 2021, not long after her Top 10 finish on NBC’s The Voice. “I’m taking a step further back, writing songs that dig not only into my life right now, but my life back then, too.