Riley Downing with Todd Day Wait

Riley Downing

For years, singer-songwriter Riley Downing has collected stories about life’s overlooked moments and underappreciated people. He’s unearthed these tales of castaway truths and once-faded recollections for Landfill Poetry, a sophomore solo album and Oh Boy Records debut. A native of small-town Missouri who once worked as a backroad trashman before becoming one of music’s weathered journeymen, the husky-voiced Downing may be best known as a member of noisemaking Americana outfit The Deslondes, a New Orleans-born band that he co-founded after a clandestine meeting with likeminded musicians at a folk festival in Oklahoma. On Landfill Poetry, his six-string worldbuilding takes listeners to the back of the trash truck (“Landfill Poetry”), inside the lonely hours of the graveyard paycheck (“Night Shift”) and to the quiet moments after a hard day of work (“Porch Song”). He sings for the restless ones who stay up way too late (“Hay Hay Hay”) and the grandchildren who admire a hard-working compassion once shared between late loved ones (“Helen & Gene”). With each song, Downing uncovers sketches of life that once might’ve been lost to the landfill but instead are shared anew.

Todd Day Wait

Nashville, TN

Missouri, to California, to New Orleans and now Nashville. The original material of Todd Day Wait is highly influenced by early American folk, country and blues music from the 1920's through the 1960's, embodying the spirit and authenticity of American music.

Todd Day Wait is one of the last real American Workhorse, pedal to the metal Troubadours. You may have heard of him from his millions of spins on GemsOnVHS or WesternAF. He writes and performs his own style of timeless country music. Harking back to Jimmie Rodgers, Willie Nelson, Wynn Stewart and Kris Kristofferson, he keeps the spirit of country music alive. In 2009 he put all his earthly belongings on the curb and hit the road in his diesel shuttle bus fueled by vegetable oil, for a never ending tour. From busking the streets of New Orleans, to playing in the shadows of European castles, to lighting up the honky-tonk dance floors in Nashville, Todd keeps it 60/50.

Doors: 7:00 PM

Show: 7:30 PM

Tickets:

ADV $20

DOS $25