WSLR Presents: JM Stevens + Lew Card

5500 Saint Elmo Avenue,Chattanooga TN 37409

12 November, 2022

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The Woodshop Listening Room Presents: JM Stevens + Lew Card Saturday, November 12 $10 presale tickets, $15 day of show Happy Hour 5-7pm Music starts at 8pm JM STEVENS Invisible Lines makes an apropos title for the solo debut from JM Stevens. The Austin-based singer-songwriter who fueled Moonlight Towers through 15 years, four albums and thousands of miles crisscrossing the country on shoestring tours has a knack for tapping the intangible elements of pop songcraft that elevate the enduring from the ephemeral. What Stevens leaves out of his songs is almost as important as what he puts in. There’s no instrumental derring-do or insular lyricism. He’s wise enough to know not to let musical ego get in the way of a good hook. Stevens would rather have you humming along and connecting with the songs on your own emotional terms. "Recalls records from the Jayhawks, Drive-By Truckers, and Uncle Tupelo, blending acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars around smooth, upper tenor vocals." - Brian Standefer, Texas Monthly “Supremely tasteful arrangements keep excess far at bay…Stevens modestly but confidently knocks Invisible Lines out the the park.” - Michael Toland, The Big Takeover “The majority of these songs sound as if they’ve been lingering in the ethos forever, uncannily familiar yet edgy enough to catch immediate attention and resonate well beyond.” - Lee Zimmerman, Goldmine “Stevens hits a stride riding solo that mellows the Towers' raucous sound while maintaining the heavy hooks.” - Doug Freeman, Austin Chronicle LEW CARD Lew Card is not just a songwriter, he is a song. He is a story. Born the son of a wealthy business man in the hills of East Tennessee, he had it all laid out for him. A legacy, riches, romance, country club swimming pools, the top tier of the social elite. But after a brief modeling career in the early nineties he made the decision to leave it all behind to make hundreds of dollars a year in the music business. He grinded for countless hours over his craft. Holed up in his bedroom smoking weed and listening to the likes of Bill Monroe and Neil Young for days on end. It was there where he would learn to emulate the different styles of pickin’ and lyric. For years, this proved to be a bountiful experience, albeit not a profitable one. Enter Texas. Joining the circus in Austin for most of the beginning of the new millennium, Lew really learned how to incorporate its techniques into the business of music. The illusion of magic, mystery, grand scale, and good plain ole’ trickery was just what he needed to skyrocket his career. Using these practices, Lew has amassed over 1000 people on all his social networks combined. To date, has sold hundreds of copies of his 4 albums and continues to fill 25 seat rooms across the country night after night. All this is what gives Lew Card the drive to give the listener the best experience ever!