Eddie Owen Presents: Matthew Perryman Jones with Molly Parden

Eddie Owen Presents: Matthew Perryman Jones with special guest Molly Parden
Friday, October 12th 2018 at 8 pm
Live at Red Clay Music Foundry
Tickets: https://goo.gl/JQXhDJ

Premium Seating: $25 Advanced ($30 Day of Show)
Reserved Seating: $21 ($26 Day of Show)

Originally from Pennsylvania, Matthew Perryman Jones grew up in Georgia and cut his artistic teeth in the Atlanta music scene before heading north to Nashville. His debut release, Nowhere Else But Here, dropped in 2000, followed by three subsequent albums — Throwing Punches in the Dark (2006), Swallow the Sea (2008), and Land of the Living (2012) — and three additional EPs as well as a handful of singles. Songs from across his catalog have been featured in dozens of film and TV placements, including Grey’s Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, One Tree Hill, Kyle XY, and more. His tours have taken him across the U.S. and abroad to share stages with legends like Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin, as well as the Ten Out of Tenn songwriter collective of which he is a part.

Revered and acclaimed Nashville songwriter whose music “feasts upon your emotions and ultimately burrows down into your soul” (American Songwriter)

“His fantastic melodies, contemplative lyrics, and soaring voice all come together to create an astounding three-or-so minutes of pure musical goodness. It’s a moment that happens over and over with this guy ” (No Depression)

Molly Parden was born in Jonesboro, GA to a family of 9 children that had little exposure to music apart from a church hymnal. Molly’s career in music is something of a mystery—something that happened to her more than it was ever anything she set out for.

When none of her siblings took a particular interest in music at a young age, Molly inherited a violin built by her great uncle when she was 8 years old— discovering her lifelong love for music through the haunting simplicity of melodies long before she ever heard pop music, picked up a guitar, or started singing songs of her own.

Molly moved to Nashville in the spring of 2013 and soon discovered she could pay her bills as a singer, providing her memorable and uniquely captivating harmony vocals on over 50 records in just a few years.

Though she rarely performed her own songs live, her increasing number of fans and champions—everyone from her mom to Ryan Adams to her fellow songwriters in Nashville’s vibrant underground— encouraged her to finally make a record of her own.

What resulted is a voice that is as haunting as it is comforting, beautifully raw and yet effortlessly just out of reach— a disarming union of aloofness and intimacy that runs throughout her songs, lulling the listener with its cadence of melancholic melodies and searching phrases that whir in your head long after her songs have gone silent.

But for all its unapproachable beauty, the heart of Molly’s music is humble and profoundly human. They are songs that remind us that heartbreak isn’t simply another marketable human emotion, but is more like a familiar place—a sacred space within all of us. We are all born with a deep sense of loss, and great art has a way of articulating the personal tragedy inside of us.

It makes listening to Molly’s songs feel like falling into a dream or a distant memory— a beautiful reminder of something we’ve known all along.

Matthew Perryman Jones and Molly Parden will be performing at The Red Clay Music Foundry on Friday, October 12th at 8pm. You can get tickets at www.eddieowenpresents.com or by calling our Box Office at (404) 478- 2749.