About Gary Allan:
With the allure of a modern day outlaw, Gary Allan has won overfans, peers,and critics with his signature blend of smoldering vocals, rebellious lyrics, and raucous live performances. While becoming a force on the country music scene, Allan has remained true to his artistic voice each step of the way.The California native has released nine studio albums selling over 8 million albums, been certified platinum on three back-to-back albums, and been certified gold five times. Allan has five #1 hits on country radio and fourteen Top 10 hits to his credit. He has amassed over 2.8 billion total streams and has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart four times, along with his SET YOU FREE album debuting at the top of the Billboard 200 (Pop Chart).He is described as“dark and dreamy” in Entertainment Weekly, “soulful and rough around the edges” in Playboy, and deemed a “maverick” by Rolling Stone. He sells out venues as a headliner from NY to LA and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Live with Kelly and Michael, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. He has also landed on the covers of Country Weekly, Pollstar, and People magazine.
About SJ McDonald:
You can hear the soil of Rockbridge Baths in her voice. SJ McDonald isn’t an artist manufactured in a boardroom; she was pulled from the rolling hills of Virginia, her worldview shaped by the calloused hands of a family farm. Her sound is a restless spirit of 90s-country nostalgia, breathing fiercely through the lungs of modern storytelling.
It’s the kind of undeniable, grounded truth that earned a first-place finish in American Songwriter’s Traditional Country category and the headlining slot at the NASCAR Nashville Superspeedway. When Billboard points to her as a “Must Hear,” they are simply echoing what the heartland has already figured out.
She cut her teeth the only way that matters: on the stages across the USA, fronting bands from a young age. A thrift-store-loving farmer’s daughter, McDonald has lived the exhausting, intoxicating reality of the road, playing well over a hundred shows a year.
You hear that blood and sweat in her breakout single, “Honky Tonk Pie,” a gritty testament to the relentless hustle of a woman chasing down a dream in the music business. It’s a track born straight from the neon-drenched trenches of Nashville’s Lower Broadway, where she spent years singing for tips and demanding to be heard.
The road doesn’t end; it just stretches out further. Keeping her foot firmly on the gas, McDonald is currently out on the highway, bringing her sound to the people on tour alongside Emily Ann Roberts. This nationwide run follows a feverish, deeply personal streak in the studio that captured her blue-collar charm on tape: the Andy Sheridan-produced debut EP, Sweet At First (December 2025), and her acclaimed spring project, We Didn’t Make It That Far (May 2026). With the release of “When The Whiskey Wears Off,” she's carving her own jagged lane through contemporary country music. It’s a bold energy for a new generation of listeners, anchored by the oldest truth there is: the music itself.
