Jeremy Ivey / Dillon Warnek

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Red Room at Cafe 939
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Nashville songwriter Jeremy Ivey combines rich storytelling, classic country, and brooding psychedelia. Upon his birth in San Antonio, Ivey suffered a stroke due to his birth mother’s drug addiction that resulted in a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. “It affected a side of my brain, so if anything it might’ve made me more creative,” Ivey states. 

A free spirit before establishing his current roots in Nashville, Ivey journeyed across the United States, living in a tent in Colorado and eventually spending a period of time homeless in Boston. These lived experiences inform Ivey’s songwriting to this very day. Under the multifarious sounds that comprise Waiting Out the Storm—a record that spans Beatles-esque psychedelia, driving folk-rock, and the type of full-band barnburners that Neil Young and Crazy Horse are known for—that streak of empathy shines brightly.

Ivey wrote most of this album on the road with frequent collaborator, wife, and country phenom Margo Price, taking a lyrics-first approach for the first time in his career. Price, who also produced The Dream and the Dreamer, joined him in the booth again here. "I work so quickly that I just wanted to not have to get anyone else involved," he enthuses. "I trust her, and it's good to have her there to reassure me." Waiting Out the Storm is as much a showcase for Ivey’s band the Extraterrestrials as well, with a full-bodied and unmistakably human sound that makes you feel as if you were just a few feet away from seeing them on the stage.

Nashville-based songwriter and longtime guitarist for Courtney Marie Andrews, Dillon Warnek has learned among the greats. With a suitcase full of songs and years of playing clubs, stealing pens from waitresses, he has left his sideman days behind him to sing on his own. After meeting Margo Price and her band in Australia, they backed him on his debut record, Now That It’s All Over.

Margo said, “He has a sharp wit and a writing style that seems both familiar and foreign at the same time. He is a songwriter’s songwriter, and some of his songs are too smart for the general population.” Joe Hudak wrote for Rolling Stone, “Dillon Warnek brings tales of everyday waitresses, repentant convicts, and unrepentant grifters to vibrant life. Con men are a favorite writing subject of the Nashville transplant. There are no scams here, however; just Warnek’s rich, detailed character studies, infused with elements of rock, country, and even Tex-Mex.”