Uncle B’s Damned Ole Opry Plays and Sings The Judds!

w / Brit Taylor, Leah Blevins, Ashland Craft, Logan Simons, Ella Gibson & Bryan “Uncle B.” Simpson. More Guests to be Announced!

Uncle B’s Damned Ole Opry is Bryan Simpson’s irreverent trippy-trad tent revival of a musical experience currently in residence in the Neon Steeple at Chief’s on Broadway in Nashville, Tennessee, It’s Billy Strings meets Barnum & Bailey, He-Haw meets Half-Baked. In short, a serious musical circus.  This month Uncle B and the band take on John Mayer’s album, Continuum with guests Everett, Mother & Son (Brandon Ratcliffe & Suzanne Cox of the Legendary Cox Family), The Foxfires, Adam Chaffins, Solon Holt, Benny G, Matt Warren and Uncle B.

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Brit Taylor

On her new album, Land of the Forgotten, Brit Taylor takes us to her much discussed and misunderstood homeland, Appalachia, with songs that reveal the complex heart and complicated people of the place. Taylor is an accomplished singer-songwriter who has been performing professionally since she was a child. She has always taken the bull by the horns; Taylor has spent seven nights a week singing on Broadway, cold-called record execs, and she even formed a cleaning business to help finance her first album, Real Me, on which Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) co-wrote five of the songs. Only three years later she found herself being produced by two of the most sought-after producers in Nashville: Grammy winners Sturgill Simpson and David Ferguson. Since then she has made her Grand Ole Opry debut, gained a devoted following as she toured the whole country, and garnered praise from the likes of NPR, Billboard, Rolling Stone, and American Songwriter.  Land of the Forgotten will be released March 6th 2026 by RidgeTone Records. Marketed and Distributed by Thirty Tigers.

Leah Blevins

If it sounds too dire to imagine, Leah Blevins’ incandescent sense of fate, faith and kindness gives the torch-pop country doyenne a light saber of clarity that cuts through emotions with dignity and a real sense of self. The Sandy Hook, Kentucky-born songstress lived in a space that was deeply present. The daughter of a dentist who became a career politician, and a teenage gospel quartet pianist who fell into deep addiction, she knows the reality of oatmeal baths in red water, no heat in the winter and finding out the teacher giving your family refuge was also your mother’s supplier before she got sober over 20 years ago.

It makes All Dressed Up, her Dan Auerbach-produced Easy Eye Sound debut, an album that will hit people wherever they live and offer insight into the struggles of those they love without ever preaching or judging the ones battling faithless love, drug problems, or struggling to believe in themselves.

“We got tossed off a lot,” the amber-headed Blevins explains. “My older sister and her husband took us in. I was in the 8th grade, and we all lived together ’til I graduated. My mom came from the Hatfields; her maiden name was Justice, and she started playing the piano in church at the age of twelve.”

Music, though, won out. Living with her siblings, she started singing background vocals in their band; Patty Loveless, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert and The Judds informed their sound. By the time Blevins was studying Communications at Morehead State, Elliot Collett & the Articles swept her away to Nashville in 2011. Though the band didn’t last long, the ethics she learned from touring by the age of 20 gave her a compass, and in 2014 she made a choice after a lifetime of singing background vocals to pursue a career as a solo artist.

Ashland Craft

Ashland Craft introduced her brand of country music with debut album, TRAVELIN’ KIND, available everywhere now. Among CMT’s Next Women of Country Class of 2021 and Pandora’s Country Artists to Watch 2021, American Songwriter claims, “there’s a new country badass in town, and her name is Ashland Craft.”

Featured on HIXTAPE: Vol. 2 with Brothers Osborne on “I Smoke Weed,” CMT’s “‘can’t miss country star on the rise” supported Ashley McBryde’s This Town Talks Tour,,  adding to her touring resume alongside recent direct slots for Cody Johnson, Brother Osborne, Zac Brown Band, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen and Marcus King.

Logan Simmons

Logan is one-half of The Band Loula. Embodying the soil and grit of North Georgia, The Band Loula brings a swampy and haunting acoustic spirit to their instantly transfixing country. Two best friends, each an artist in their own right, Malachi Mills and Logan Simmons sought to evoke a new aesthetic. Raw harmonies, signature chemistry and a hard-touring ethos has infused the duo – signed to Warner Music Nashville and currently in the studio with Grammy-winning Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne – with an electricity that’s charged with desire, betrayal and yearning. Their soulful, song-forward approach to music offers a very real, very now sound for people who like their country straight up and real. Having spent the year touring with artists like Brothers Osborne, Ashley McBryde, Paul Cauthen and Brent Cobb and Elle King.

Ella Gibson

Ella Gibson is a singer-songwriter from Orange County, California. Growing up in theatre and playing piano, she’s always had a love of music and performing, but transitioned into writing when she began learning guitar and ukulele at age eight, later picking up the mandolin at thirteen, and music production at fourteen. Songwriting and emotional connection have always been Ella’s driving forces in music. Inspired by artists including Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift, Lizzy McAlpine, The Japanese House, and Elliott Smith, her sound can be described as tender, honest, and heart-plucking acoustic indie pop. Whether a project is individual or collaborative, she’s excited by creating and performing works with meaning and complexity, and thoroughly enjoys the processes of writing, recording, and producing. She’s been named a winner in YoungArts Pop Voice, semi-finalist in OC Register’s Artist of the Year in Vocal Music, a semi-finalist in the 2024 Unsigned Only Music Competition, and most recently awarded Judge’s Choice Best Overall Act of UCLA’s 2025 Spring Sing.

Bryan Simpson

Modern American eclectic singer-songwriter Bryan Simpson is an artist whose sound unnervingly explores an evocative amalgamation of southern folk, bluegrass, classic country and indie eclecticism, with the playful swagger, relatable storytelling, and thoughtful introspection of his heroes which include John Hartford, Tom T Hall, Jeff Tweedy, and of course Bob Dylan.

Bryan’s songs have netted praise from all corners: The Huffington Post wrote “Bryan’s original undertakings are reminiscent of the whimsical and whip-smart work by David Byrne and Jim James”. While SeattlePi claims Simpson’s music echoes “Bowie, and Beck in the melodies, moods, and arrangements. The quest is entertaining and thought-provoking.” His genre-spanning career has included making records and touring as a singer/songwriter with luminaries as diverse as The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, bluegrass giant Ricky Skaggs and Mumford and Sons. Since leaving his hometown of Ft Worth Texas with only a fiddle, guitar, mandolin and a box fan to his name, Simpson has had many of his original songs recorded by country music standouts like Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Hailey Whitters, Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Brandy Clark, Old Dominion, Stephen Wilson Jr., with several of them ending up with a number 1 beside their name on the Billboard and Music Row charts . He has also been awarded NSAI’s prestigious award of “10 Songs I wish I’d Written”. His songs have easily totaled over 500 million streams at this point.

This year Simpson released his first record under his own name. “The Oldest”, released in April, is a concise 11 songs in length, produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan/Brandi Carlisle) and takes Simpson’s shade tree kaleidoscopic storytelling center stage.Soulful. Poignant. Vulnerable yet powerful. When Appalachian country crooner Adam Chaffins sings, his voice reels you in and then collectively embraces his audience with ease. His sound is beguiling, reaching into the rich Kentucky corners of Chaffins’ expressive baritone, delivered with refinement and ease. His music defies boundaries – from his mountains back home to the paved canyons of the cities that are now home, the sound crosses genres; the lure crosses humanity.