Songwriter Showcase at The Armadillo Ranch

Kelley Mickwee is a Memphis-born, Austin-based singer-songwriter whose voice carries equal parts Southern soul, country grit, and lived-in grace. A longtime fixture of the Americana world, she’s toured and recorded with The Trishas, spent four explosive years as a Shiny Soul Sister in Shinyribs, and lent her voice to records by Ray Wylie Hubbard, Charley Crockett, Reckless Kelly, and more, all while co-hosting the beloved Red River Songwriters Festival. Her second solo album, Everything Beautiful (2024), marks a powerful return to her own spotlight — a cohesive, soul-leaning statement inspired by her Memphis roots and recorded at Austin’s Church House Studios with producer David Boyle. Seamless, warm, and unapologetically analog in spirit, the album showcases Mickwee at her most confident yet, delivering songs that feel timeless, deeply human, and soaked in honest soul. Jeff Crosby is an Idaho-born songwriter whose road worn voice and storytelling reflect a life lived largely on the highway, logging more than 250 shows a year in his early career alone. Blending Americana, folk, and rock with raw honesty, Crosby has released multiple EPs and full-length albums, including Silent Conversations, which landed his music on Sons of Anarchy. His latest release, Waking Days, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and produced by John Gilbertson, finds Crosby fronting his longtime band The Refugees with a rich, cinematic sound shaped by loss, love, restlessness, and hope. Anchored by raspy, emotionally charged vocals and vivid, character-driven songs, Waking Days captures the push and pull of chasing meaning on the road — a deeply human record that feels both timeless and unmistakably American. Bri Bagwell is a Texas Country powerhouse, crowned Texas Female Artist of the Decade and a nine-time Female Vocalist of the Year, with fifteen #1 singles on Texas Country Radio and a reputation as one of the genre’s most electrifying live performers. Raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico…