Copperline
Four friends from a wire-plant town. The plant that drew the copper line employed all of their fathers and, briefly, three of them. When it closed, the VFW hall kept its…
The Moosed Music roster
Artists
Every persona on the Moosed Music roster — the story behind the music, and the records they are making. Tap an artist for their full page.
Cross
Isaiah Cross grew up in a preacher's house where rap was banned at the door — so he wrote his first thousand bars in a notebook hidden inside a hymnal, composing testimo…
Darla Sutton
Darla Sutton is a long-haul truck driver who sings — twenty years of overnight freight in a weathered, plainspoken contralto. Her faith rides with her: a picture on the …
Forty Mile Road
Dale farms on one side of the county; Ruth, now his wife, grew up forty miles off on the other. The band is the two families' pickup musicians — Ruth's brother on drums,…
DJ Halcyon
Mara spent six years as a wedding and corporate DJ — the invisible woman in the corner watching dancefloors do what therapy couldn't: make a roomful of tired, guarded st…
Ironhollow
Viktor and Rudy worked the same steel plant that put Viktor's father on a disability pension at forty-six — the plant is in their lungs and their family budgets both. Sa…
June Holloway
June taught elementary school in the same small town for thirty-one years — which means she taught the children of children she taught, and she knows where every family'…
Kairo Dunn
Kairo writes verses on a night-shift warehouse job, in a notebook he keeps in his locker, because his older brother — the one who taught him to count bars — is serving a…
DJ Lowline
Before the decks, Theo played bass in funk bands that were always the best act on the bill and never the ones who got paid; he learned that the bassline is the floor eve…
Lucía Ferrer
Lucía's father sang boleros in Havana before he ever held a passport; her mother danced to music she half understood and loved whole. Lucía grew up as the family transla…
Mila Hart
Mila grew up over her parents' diner in a town the interstate forgot, singing along to the jukebox to keep the lunch crowd in their seats a little longer. A regular film…
New Mercy Choir
The spring the river took their church building, the congregation sang in the school gym for a year — folding chairs, a borrowed piano, casseroles in the hallway. Grace,…
Paper Arrows
Freshman year, during the semester their friend group nearly lost one of its own, Wren started folding paper airplanes out of notebook pages — a lyric on each wing — and…
Rae Collins
Rae learned guitar standing on a crate in her uncle's juke joint, too young to be in it, because her hands were better than the men twice her age and her uncle needed a …
Ravenmoor
Soren Hale spent eleven years on merchant ships out of northern ports. On the last one, a North Sea crossing took his younger brother — a deckhand on Soren's own watch r…
Selene Marr
Selene Marr, 38, was raised in Bakersfield by her grandmother Odessa, who sang in church and cleaned other people's houses humming soul records into the rooms. The voice…
Static Bloom
Ana was a classical piano student who quit the conservatory the semester she discovered synthesizers in a borrowed dorm room — her parents heard noise; she heard weather…
The Meridian Quartet
For nine years they were the house band of a supper club called the Meridian, playing under an owner — an old singer named June Okafor (no relation to the folk act) — wh…
The Ninth Hour
Micah Brennan spent three years in seminary before he left, a year before ordination — not in anger and not in scandal, but because he could not stop hearing the people …
Trigger Warning
Vic Rawlings, Tone Mercer, and Khalil Brooks grew up on the same few blocks and worked the same string of warehouse, kitchen, and overnight jobs. Two winters ago Vic's y…
Wabash
Dana Whitmore grew up listening to her father play his record collection in the garage where his '74 Chevelle sat unfinished for twenty years — every classic rock song s…
Wade Calloway
Wade learned rhythm calling bids at his father's auction barn, standing on a hay bale so the crowd could see the kid. At fifty-eight his father's voice — the barn's whol…