“Sentiments that linger well after the final notes fade away, a mood and mystique that are exceptionally affecting.”
“"The man America needs right now."” - Tommy Womack
“Musically, it staggers between rough country blues and Steely Dan getting in a brawl with a proper jazz band.” - Stuart Hamilton
Afton Wolfe
On Tour and Releasing an Album Throughout 2025!
With two acclaimed releases in 2023 - "Twenty-Three" and "The Harvest," the Nashville-based artist, vocalist, musician, songwriter and collector/inhabiter of powerful songs, has toured the around the US for the last 3 years, appeared for the third at the Tropic of Cancer Concert Series in Todos Santos Mexico hosted by the band Cordovas, with acts like Andy Frasco, The Mother Hips, Susto and more. And in 2024, he released a collaboration with Jaimee Harris for a rendition of "Dead Flowers" and appeared on Can't Steal My Fire: The Songs of David Olney which also featured Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin, Mary Gauthier, The SteelDrivers, Townes Van Zandt and others. His upcoming release, Ophiuchus, is a return to recording his own compositions and collaborations for the first time since "Twenty-Three"
Grandiflora Records began releasing this new Album, one-song-at-a-time, in December of 2024, and all 13 tracks will be released to coincide with the True path of the Zodiac, until the Sun crosses into the constellation Ophiuchus in November of 2025.
He has tour dates scheduled in the Southeast and Texas in Spring of 2025 and along the Northeast Coast in the Summer of 2025.
RIYL: Mark Lanegan, Tom Waits, Nick Cave
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Name Dropping
Shameless, unapologetic bragging for sure, Afton has been on stage, on a bill, and/or on a recording with the following incredible humans/bands:
Andy Frasco, Jaimee Harris, Judy Blank, Brian Brown, Sevans Henderson (Red Clay Strays), Giuseppe Spargo, Cordovas, Marc Ford, Brian Wright, Regina McCrary, Mike Miz, Cary Hudson, Grayson Capps, Grace Bowers, Jon Latham, LadyCouch, Van Darien, Seth Fox, Daniel Seymour, Kevin Gordon, Mike Younger, Chad Stuible, Courtney Santana, ZG Smith, Hayden Cotcher, Noel McKay, Adam “Ditch” Kurtz, Ben Babylon, The Killer Dees, Brett Ryan Stewart, Justin Amaral, Ryan Case, Tom Mason, East Kin, Ballhog!, Laura Rabell, Mark Mann, Patrick Stevens, David Olney, Tommy Womack, Anana Kaye, Irakli Gabriel, Rod Gator, Caliche, Stone Riot, The Charities, Runner of the Woods, Bob Lewis, Rocky Bottom, Kevin Daniel, Keith Harry, Renee Hikari, William Pearson, Charlie Rauh, Craig Schenker, Blaise Hearn, Rebecca Weiner Tompkins, Laura Rabell, Christina Vane, Amy Lott, Mike Stokes, Scott Panther, Scott Lightsey, Preston Jackson, and many more…