Hard enough to hold an edge; soft enough not to break—Austin, Texas duo Kristin Davidson and Carolyn Phillips live that balance and express it in their music. They released their second album, Hold the Line, in January 2021, debuting at No. 3 Album and No. 5 Artist on the FAI Folk DJ Chart. Joining forces again with Grammy award-winning producer Lloyd Maines, the nine songs shine a light on sorrow and capture with the keen eye of a street photographer glimmers of backbone and resilience. Hold the Line is the follow-up to The Trailer Sessions (2017), which received accolades from radio and print outlets throughout the United States. Influenced by Davidson’s time living in a trailer on the Texas-Mexico border and lonely stretches of highway heading, if not home, to where home might be, The Trailer Sessions “gently conjure wanderlust in the wide-open western spaces of cowboy mythology,” writes Jewly Hight for NPR. They draw much of their inspiration for hope and grit from their activism in the trenches. Davidson is a zealous freedom fighter for the indigent and their equal treatment in criminal law, and Phillips is an oncology-nurse-turned-PhD who studies the effects of storytelling through music to cope with complex emotions during grief and trauma.
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