Released tonight, ahead of her Americana Fest set at Nashville’s Blue Room, Katie Pruitt’s third album, Fools for the Fleeting, displays Pruitt falling in love and analyzing the corrupt political state of America. As Pruitt told the Belmont Vision in an article published earlier this week, these facets combine a political intention to communicate her views in a way that would “make her conservative parents proud” with a goal to “showcase her queer identity in a more subtle wa

Published by the Belmont Vision on September 16, 2026. Katie Pruitt will play Nashville’s The Blue Room at AMERICANAFEST on Sept. 17, the same day her third album, “Fools for the Fleeting,” releases. Pruitt teased that her upcoming album will showcase her queer identity in a more subtle way than how she’s historically presented it. Pruitt’s 2020 debut album, “Expectations,” featured songs “Loving Her” and “Normal,” both central to the album theme of navigating her journey thr

Published with the Belmont Vision on September 15, 2026. Emma Andersen is set to play AMERICANAFEST at Nashville’s prominent 3rd and Lindsley venue on Sept. 16. Andersen dropped out of Belmont University’s songwriting program in her sophomore year after she struck a record deal with RCA Records. Social media plays a massive role in her career, and she said having luck online was a large part of how she got discovered and signed. “I am one of those freaks that loves social me

Nearly seven months after the launch of River & Row Management, founded by Emma Harger and Annie McNamara, I hopped on a call with Harger and her latest signee, rae. Following the signing of Monica James when the company made its debut in January, Americana-folk artist rae is the second artist on the River & Row roster. rae, photo by Julia Blahnik rae committed to working in the music industry as a young teenager, “I pretty much just, like, tried to hone my writing skills as

Bebe Stockwell in the Volume 1 photoshoot – photo by Katherine Goguen The most shocking thing about Bebe Stockwell’s second album Volume 1 might not be her bold claim that when love is right, you just know it, or her preference for the more temperate New England climate over the always warm Los Angeles climate. Rather, your biggest surprise might be learning that Stockwell is 24 years old. Stockwell’s voice provided great company as I sewed while listening to the album for th

The energy at the Exit/In was magical as the crowd filed in on March 29 for Sisters in Song, a concert presented by River & Row Management. As the pre-show playlist cycled through songs by Carole King, Fleetwood Mac, Brandi Carlile, and other artists in the Americana realm, attendees got progressively more excited. Eloise Rixey performing, photo by Maggie Oradat. Eloise Rixey was the first artist onstage, joined by cellist Ethan Hill and special guest Jael Woolfolk on keyboar

The Ace album cover, photo by Sean Stout. Madison Cunningham’s fourth studio album, Ace, signals many changes in Cunningham’s musical style. She shifts into the piano realm after years of focusing on her guitar work, and has the ultimate processing experience following a massive period of suffering intense loss and self-discovery. As I talk to Cunningham on the phone while she drives through California a week ahead of the opening night of the second US leg of her Ace Tour, s

When I approach Eloise Rixey at a Nashville coffee shop on an early March morning, the first thing I observe about the singer/songwriter is that she looks straight out of an indie-downtown-girl-cottagecore Pinterest board. This impression of her is quickly supported by the revelation that she’s a music business major with a legal studies emphasis and a philosophy minor. “I'm from St Augustine, Florida…. it's got one of the best music scenes, I would argue, in the world,” she

When Americana singer/songwriter Monica James picked up the phone on a spring break afternoon, the first question I asked her was not the typical “How are you?” but rather, “Where are you?” I could hear a soft, incessant noise in the background. As it turned out, she was on a Florida beach. “I figured if I’m going to be on the phone, I might as well be on the beach,” she laughed. This is Monica for you. Her primary goal as an artist, beyond wanting to make people feel seen by