Alabama's Drayton Farley is an Americana songwriter with a keen ear for grounded and relatable stories peppered with vivid, blue-collar detail. Born and raised in the small town of Woodstock, Farley released his debut single, "Trouble in the Pines," independently in 2018. He combined a par of self-released EPs into the full-length Hargrove & Sweet Summer Sadness two years later and continued to hone his minimalist style and earthy cadence, which recall country-adjacent artists like Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, and Tyler Childers, on 2021's A Hard Life. Recorded at home on h...