Date/Time Sun 08 Nov 2015 7:45 PM

Price Online - £8 + 80p booking fee; On The Door - £10

Website: http://www.wildponies.net/

Wild Ponies is a Nashville-based outfit fronted by Virginia natives Doug and Telisha Williams.

With stand-up bass and Fender Telecaster, the duo play country music with a modern sensibility.

After touring and releasing two albums under their own names, they changed their name and have released a third, less acoustic album, recorded live in the studio. Doug: “This time, it feels like we finally made a record that captures the sound we’ve been hearing in our heads for the past 10 years.”

Their first album as Wild Ponies – Things That Used to Shine – provokes comparisons with Lucinda Williams, and like Lucinda, Telisha writes from personal experience; Wild Ponies’ songs are about  “loss, rejection, abuse or starting over. It’s about trying to find places where people don’t necessarily have a voice, or don’t know how to speak out on their own, and we try to give them some sort of a voice.”

In 2015, they released a pro-marriage equality song – Love is Not a Sin. A second album is in the works, so expect to hear new songs at TwickFolk.

Here’s Wild Ponies recorded at Ashland Coffee and Tea last year:
Also, a trio recording from the Artist Co-Op in Nashville earlier this year:

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