Aaron Dowdy started writing songs because of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. It started at age 11, when his parents took him to a music festival in their hometown of Bristol, Virginia. The musical ...

In the oft-forgotten, no-man’s-land territory of West Virginia is where Aaron Dowdy’s family came from—on his dad’s side, through a multiplicity of generations. Dowdy’s grandmother was born in ...

10 years ago, I wanted to watch every Adam Sandler movie. A completionist at heart, I yearned so badly to claim that I’d conquered his entire filmography. So, I watched them all, one by one, piece by ...

Fust have released their new record Big Ugly, out now via Dear Life Records. The band joins a long tradition of artists that have tried to present life in the dirty South, from the lived-in short ...

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Aaron Dowdy is constantly writing songs — recording on his phone the melodies that loop in his head or jotting down lyrics with the pen he always keeps in his breast pocket. It's something he's been ...

For Aaron Dowdy, the frontman for North Carolina’s Fust, choosing “Spangled” as the alt country band’s lead single seemed natural on a number of fronts. “’Spangled’ felt like a culmination of ...

Merce Lemon and Fust are two of the best and brightest indie acts currently channeling the spirit of the sad-eyed country greats. So the prospect of the Pittsburgh singer-songwriter and the Durham alt ...

Fust’s Aaron Dowdy tells Max Mazonowicz about the shifting of time and history in the forgotten corners of the South. “For me, the responsibility has come after the fact. Like people are listening to ...