[Cover photo credit to Nicola Gell]

Everett Wren’s latest album, Cascades, will be releasing on Jan. 17, 2025, and the Austin-based artist is influenced by Western music and Bluegrass as well as many other genres. He’ll be performing the new album at a release show on Jan. 18, 2024 at 8 p.m. at Radio Coffee & Beer (South), 4204 Menchaca Road, Austin. Admission is free.

The self-produced album follows 2022’s Porchlight, which was Wren’s solo debut after working as Chris Everett Peterson in Chalkboard Poets and Lost & Nameless. On Cascades, Wren accompanies his tenor vocals on fiddle, mandolin, percussion and acoustic, electric, resophonic slide and lap steel guitars.

Cascades also features bassist Taylor Turner, who co-wrote two of its songs, and drummer Sasha K.A., plus several other contributors.

Wren loosely characterizes these 11 tracks as Folk Rock/Americana.

As for their origins, he explains:

This album continues the celebration of the incredible humans who perpetually inspire and encourage me and who channel something from the universe most often decoded through music. These are songs about human journeys through the space-time continuum: the ghosts of who we may have been or may become and who extend beyond cascades of light.

Among other things, Wren has toured nationally with Americana band Wagon (which recorded a Lloyd Maines-produced album for Hightone Records and two more for Glitterhouse), performed and recorded with future Grammy winner Sarah Jarosz, busked in Europe, earned a master’s of engineering degree in acoustics, co-founded Austin bands Lost & Nameless and Chalkboard Poets, and Produced several albums for other artists.

Everett Wren album release show

When: Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, at 8 p.m.

Where: Radio Coffee & Beer (South), 4204 Menchaca Road, Austin

Admission: Free
Info: radiocoffeeandbeer.com