Aaron Dowdy started writing songs because of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. It started at age 11, when his parents took him to a music festival in their hometown of Bristol, Virginia. The musical ...

In the oft-forgotten, no-man’s-land territory of West Virginia is where Aaron Dowdy’s family came from—on his dad’s side, through a multiplicity of generations. Dowdy’s grandmother was born in ...

Fust have released their new record Big Ugly, out now via Dear Life Records. The band joins a long tradition of artists that have tried to present life in the dirty South, from the lived-in short ...

Durham, NC band Fust have announced their highly anticipated new album Big Ugly, due out March 7th via Dear Life Records. Lead single “Spangled”, available now, combines big chords and band leader ...

For Aaron Dowdy, the frontman for North Carolina’s Fust, choosing “Spangled” as the alt country band’s lead single seemed natural on a number of fronts. “’Spangled’ felt like a culmination of ...