Pony Bradshaw

Pony Bradshaw is the performing name of a songwriter from the foothills of North Georgia, whose records sit between country, Americana and a rougher strain of country rock. His songs stay close to home: small towns, back roads, hard work and the people who drift through them, set down with a storyteller's eye for odd detail.

His albums include Sudden Opera and North Georgia Rounder, the latter named for the region that runs through nearly everything he writes. The arrangements are mostly guitar-led and unhurried, leaving room for the words to carry the songs.