Biography
Born in Louisiana, Gill Landry works as a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who once earned his living as a street busker, all while maintaining a parallel role inside the Nashville folk ensemble Old Crow Medicine Show. Before issuing any solo material, he teamed with vocalist Woody Pines to launch an old-time jug outfit called the Kitchen Syncopators in Eugene, Oregon; beginning in 1998 the group traveled extensively, performed on sidewalks, and put out several independent albums until its dissolution in 2004. By then Landry had already begun contributing as a part-time banjoist and session player for Old Crow Medicine Show. When founding member Chris Fuqua stepped away in 2007, Landry stepped in as his permanent replacement and continued writing songs for the band even after Fuqua rejoined. Around the same period he signed with Nettwerk Records, which issued his debut solo album, The Ballad of Lawless Soirez, in 2007. The record blended raw, blues-tinged folk with earthy Southern Americana. Two years later he self-released Piety & Desire, an album that brought in guests Jolie Holland, Brandi Carlile, and the Felice Brothers. Old Crow Medicine Show albums appeared in 2012 and 2014, after which Landry returned to his own catalog with a self-titled third solo set on ATO Records in early 2015. He spent much of the next year on the road alone before delivering his second ATO release, the atmospheric Love Rides a Dark Horse, in 2017.
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