Drunken Hearts w/ Derek Dames Ohl
Friday, November 13, 2026 | Doors: 7PM | Show: 8PM
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About the Artist(s)
Break Never Bend isn’t just the title of Drunken Hearts’ fourth full-length album, it’s a manifesto. A portrait of a “free land” where people would rather shatter than surrender. A place where principles matter more than comfort. It’s also singer/songwriter Andrew McConathy staring back at himself: a decade-plus of choosing the hard road, of refusing to smooth the rough edges, of breaking rather than bending. It cost him. But it kept his band alive.
Produced by six-time Grammy winner Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Break Never Bend is the album McConathy was born to make. Uncompromising, ambitious, earned through over a decade of grinding and finding his sound from coast to coast: FloydFest (VA), The Green Parrot (Key West), WinterWonderGrass (CO & CA), Electric Forest (MI), Brooklyn Bowl (NY), Red Rocks, to his own Yarmony Music Festival on the Colorado River.
Louisiana-born and Colorado-raised, McConathy leads Drunken Hearts with an unpolished, defiant vocal that refuses to apologize. Alongside guitarist James Dumm, bassist Drew Packard, and drummer Eric Low, they’ve built an outlaw-country-rock sound built on stage before it was built in a studio. Berlin captured that without sanding it down.
Break Never Bend is what happens when you don’t compromise. Due 2027.
https://www.thedrunkenhearts.com/
Named a top 10 under the radar artist to keep your eye on by Nashville’s own Music Mecca, Derek Dames Ohl, hailing from Boulder Colorado, is a trader of songs for fans of John Prine or Blaze Foley, Derek has released multiple projects in the past decade including his latest Songwriter record “Someday I’ll Be Happy” as well as the “Dumb Drunk & Anxious” EP, recorded at acclaimed Nashville studio The Bombshelter. Ping ponging back and fourth across the globe has allowed Derek to hone his chops writing songs along the way.
Some notable artists Derek has played along with, or opened for include, Willis Alan Ramsey, Amy Helm, Arlo McKinley, Jamie Wyatt, Joshua Ray Walker, Emily Nenni, Melissa Carper, Kassi Valazza, Larry Keel, Brudi Brothers and many many more.
https://derekdamesohlmuzak.com/