6/13: Joelton Mayfield

Nashville-based songwriter Joelton Mayfield will be performing at The Milk Parlor on Tuesday, June 13 with Kevin Knight. 211 Draper Rd NW in Blacksburg. Doors are at 7pm and music begins at 8pm. Admission is $5.

Raised in small town central Texas and based in Nashville, Tennessee, Joelton Mayfield crafts hard-hitting alt-country that’s at home in dive bars and DIY venues alike. Mayfield’s distinct take on the genre blends Wilco-esque musicality with the dynamics and melodic edge of fourth-wave emo to create a sound all his own. This musical innovation underscores Mayfield’s deft lyricism, which draws a Southern Gothic literary sensibility and deals intimately with the tensions embedded in family, religion, masculinity, and love in the American South.