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Jessee Lee
11:30AM-12:30PM
Nashville recording Artist and Texas touring act, Jessee Lee, is a troubadour at its finest. At the ripe age of 25, she plays over 160 shows per year touring acoustically and with her 5 piece band. She has opened for several artists including Pure Prairie League, Darryl Worley, Radney Foster, William Beckmann, Kix Brooks, and others along with gracing the historic stages of Gruene Hall, Luckenbach Dancehall, John T. Floore’s Country Store, The AT&T Stadium, Dosey Doe—The Big Barn, and many more.
Along with playing iconic venues around Texas, she has performed at festivals all around the United States including the Key West Songwriter Festival, the Mississippi Songwriter Festival, Forever West Fest, the Panama City Songwriter Festival, Florabama, and many more, sharing her Vintage-Americana-Soul sound. “Vintage-Americana-Soul” is the easiest way to box in this unique Artist, but Jessee’s music is a melting pot of genres ranging from Country to Motown topped with dimples and a lot of turquoise.
Jessee Lee is known for her picturesque songwriting ability, unique vocals, and quirky bass line-like guitar playing. Jessee’s biggest musical influences include Amy Winehouse, Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, Leon Redbone, Dolly Parton, Etta James, Elvis, and the Alabama Shakes.
Cameron Wrinkle
1:00PM-2:00PM
Cameron Wrinkle is a 5th generation musician from Tuscola, Texas. Cameron started his musical journey playing the fiddle and at the age of 3, he was playing fiddle contests with his older brother, father, and grandfather. At the age of 9, Cameron picked up the guitar and shortly after, he began writing songs. Cameron spent his high school years writing songs and working as a ranch hand. Shortly after graduating high school, he was discovered by Tracy Byrd’s managers and they took him to Nashville, Tennessee to work on crafting his songwriting skills.
Cameron developed great relationships with many of the hit songwriters that shaped the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000’s of country music. Cameron spent over 3 years in Nashville writing songs with hit writers and developing his sound. He spent time playing songwriter rounds in popular venues in Nashville, demoing songs in the studio, and writing with some of his biggest songwriting heroes. Although you can take the boy out of Texas, you can’t take Texas out of the boy; Cameron is now working as an independent Texas artist, splitting his time between writing in Nashville and playing live shows all over the US.
Darci Carlson
2:30PM-3:30PM
Straight up Country - No Chaser.
Seattle’s Outlaw Country Queen Darci Carlson is a high energy, no non-sense Singer Songwriter from Seattle WA with a decade long presence in the PNW music scene. This DIY firecracker of a front woman has performed around the US and beyond not only as a country artist, but as a lead guitar player for her all-girl punk rock band The Dolly Rottens, as well as a co-fronting Bassist and Singer for ‘Weird Western Cowboy Band’ Brent Amaker Deathsquad. Darci is also known for her involvement as a model and actress with the ZZTop crew from 2012-2015 on the "Gang of Outlaws Tour" as the sassy pistol packin’ vixen "The Girl".
Darci delivers a true country performance of foot stompin' originals and classic country favorites drenched in hardcore twang. This isn’t Punk Country or a vanity act. This is a no non-sense, throwback, true country affair.
Ruben V
4:00PM-5:00PM
Ruben V is an accomplished artist. He’s released eight solo CDs, 14 group albums and averages over 120 shows a year. He is a guitar player, songwriter, producer and family man. He’s built a huge following of Ruben V Band fans – all while keeping a sense of humor and a genuine Texas charm.
But first and foremost, there is the music. It’s a fresh, smooth blend of blues, Latin, soul, and rock. It’s an ambitious mix of the music that moves him and in his skillful hands, becomes a truly energizing and enjoyable experience. The result is stylistically different from his peers – it’s alluring, soulful, fun and mature. As he says, “it’s everything I love about music.”
For a man who would turn out to be such a celebrated guitar player, Ruben was self-taught – old school style. “I would slow down our old 45 albums on the record player and learn that way. I was also front and center at every concert – watching and listening. Then it was just hitting the road. There’s no better way to learn.” Hitting the road began at 15 for Ruben, who played in a string of bands and eventually landed an Indie record deal with his heavy metal band, Final Assault. The unexpected death of a friend, the band’s bass player, brought everything to a halt for Ruben and he began questioning his direction. Again, it was music that pulled him back in. “I was in a dark time in my life when I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan in concert. It was the opposite of the heavy metal bands that were defining the time. I wanted to play Stevie’s kind of music – to bend a guitar string like that because that’s what I felt.” That performance is what drove him back to writing and playing, but this time, he surrounded himself with his brothers and the group began touring clubs in the area. As time passed, the shows became bigger and the four albums they put out became heavier, but, again, that sound wasn’t what Ruben had envisioned for himself. Forced to confront the different directions the brothers were heading, Ruben parted ways with the group to pursue his own musical path – one that was true to him. That becomes the essence of Ruben V’s music.
David Lee
12:30PM-12:45PM
In an ever changing music world fraught with people trying to be something they’re not, David Lee is nothing but himself, a Wichita Falls born Texas native and a third generation musician.
The Grammy nominated and multi award winning songwriter cut his teeth playing a mix of blues and country music in Texas honkytonks.
In 1993 David moved to Nashville with his new wife Stacie to chase his dream of performing and writing music. Only weeks after arriving in Nashville, David put away the idea of performing and focused on honing his craft. He spent countless nights at songwriting venues not to perform his original music but to listen to the best songwriters in the world, Lee deciphered their rhyme schemes, their melodies, subject matter and their sheer honest emotion, David Lee was the perfect student.
Hours upon hours of writing lyric and melody, Lee always challenged himself to be better, to keep his mind open to criticism and change. With uncanny focus and collaborating with other aspiring writers like himself, Lee wanted the opportunity to write as a staff writer, to make a real living doing what he loved, writing country music.
In 1996, three years of working part-time jobs so he could write as much as possible, Lee signed an exclusive publishing deal with publisher and manager Estill Sowards and John Dorris of Ten-Ten Music Group.
After a few years as a staff writer David Lee and co-writer Tony Lane landed their first cut together “This Old Heart" on Terri Clark’s “How I Feel”, shortly after he penned John Michael Montgomery’s title cut “This One’s Gonna Leave a Mark”.
His first Top 10 came with Leann Womack’s “Now You See Me Now you Don't", followed by Brad Martin's "Before I Knew Better” in 2002.
In 2003 David signed with BMG Music Publishing and co-wrote his first #1 song “19 Somethin” for Mark Wills, in 2004 “Letters From Home” for John Michael Montgomery, followed by “Lucky Man" performed by Montgomery Gentry. In 2008 Tim McGraw and Faith Hill sung Lee’s riveting love song “I Need You” which Lee received a Song of the Year Grammy nomination.
In 2012 David signed with Ten- Ten Music Group and had two number one songs on the Texas charts by artist Cody Johnson, “Me and My Kind” and “Cowboy Like Me”. In 2016 Cody Johnson cut “Gotta Be Me” written by Johnson & Lee and “With You I Am” written by Johnson/Wilmon/Lee.
After moving back to Texas in 2015 David Lee picked up where he left off as an Independent Artist before embarking on an unknown future in Music City years before. In 2016 David Lee debut his first record which would be Lee’s first and last recording in Nashville, “The Wichita Kid.” The concept record chronicles Lee’s life, and showcases his musical demographics from blues to swing to traditional country music and genres in between.
In late 2016 Lee released his second project recorded in his home state of Texas with the first single and video to be the title track “Bringing Hippie Back”. The lyric gives a humorous nod to the rebellious decade our grandparents didn’t see coming in the seventies.
In the spring of 2019 David Lee released his third EP, “Songbird”. A project written solo by Lee. The title cut was inspired by his personal gratitude toward all the musicians in the world who keep music alive no matter rain, shine or Covid. David Lee’s first single from the EP was “Billy Joe Shaver Song” released in the spring of 2021. The song was inspired as a tribute to the legendary songsmith and late Billy Joe Shaver. The cd’s genre has country roots with yesteryears southern rock undertones.
In 2019 Cody Johnson cut a fifth Lee tune, “Ain’t Nothin’ To It” written with Leslie Satcher. In late 2020 Texas recording artists Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers cut “Rodeo Clown” written by Lee and Chris Dubois which climbed to #1 on Texas radio charts and was Texas Song of the Year in 2021.
Today, Lee continues to have his fingers in a myriad of projects such as fronting a band, producing projects, and mentoring up and coming artist in Texas to include his daughter Jessee Lane Lee, who he is most proud of and mesmerized by her artistry as an independent artist and her exceptional songwriting abilities.