Fourth Studio Album · Out Now on Soundly Music
About the Artist
Calder Holt has played a hundred shows a year for almost a decade now, the way a working country mailman walks his route.
Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1989 and raised between the Gulf Coast and a step-grandfather's cattle farm in central Tennessee, Holt picked up the guitar at fifteen, moved to Nashville at twenty-one, and has been writing songs about leaving and arriving in roughly equal measure ever since. His debut, Dollar General Saint (2018), was made for $4,200 in a converted Quonset hut in East Nashville and earned him an Americana Music Award nomination for Emerging Artist.
Three records and several thousand miles later, All The Way Down To Mobile (Soundly Music, 2026) is Holt's fourth full-length and his most plain-spoken yet. Recorded live to two-inch tape at Sound Emporium Studio B with longtime producer Sadler Vaden (Jason Isbell's 400 Unit), the album was tracked in eight days with the touring band: Lily Roan Carter on fiddle and harmony, Jess Beauchamp on upright bass, and Hank "Bear" Thibodaux on drums and Wurlitzer. Brandi Carlile sings on two tracks.
Holt has shared bills with Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Brandi Carlile, Margo Price, and Tyler Childers; he plays the Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon, and the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2026. Rolling Stone Country calls him "the most reliable narrator in Americana — the kind of writer Steve Earle keeps a seat for at the bar."
Tour Dates
Spring through fall 2026. Plus a short UK / EU run in November. New dates added most Mondays.
Private & House Shows
Between record cycles, my band and I take a small handful of private and house shows a year. Backyards, listening rooms, ranch halls, breweries the size of three-car garages, public libraries that stayed open late.
Solo acoustic, duo (with Lily Roan Carter on fiddle), or full four-piece — pick what fits the room. We bring our own PA for groups under fifty; for larger rooms we'll ask you to rent a small system locally.
I write back to every inquiry myself, usually inside a week. Discount rates available for nonprofits, libraries, and private listening rooms with a built-in following.
The New Record
Produced by Sadler Vaden · Recorded live to 2" tape at Sound Emporium Studio B, Nashville · Mixed by Vance Powell · Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic
Twelve songs about getting home, getting gone, and the long stretch of road in between. Brandi Carlile sings on "Highway 65" and the title track. Lily Roan Carter, Jess Beauchamp, and Bear Thibodaux on every cut.
Notes from the Road
Tour diaries, gas-station essays, the strange motels and stranger people. About one a month, written in the van between cities.
April 02, 2026 · 7 min read
We tracked it live, four of us in a circle, no headphones for the first three days. Sadler said: "if you can't hear the bass leaking into the vocal mic, you ain't making a country record."
Read on →February 28, 2026 · 11 min read
A truck-stop biscuit at 6 a.m. in Conway, Arkansas. The five minutes after a sound check when the room is empty. The Buc-ee's just south of Bowling Green.
Read on →January 14, 2026 · 9 min read
It is not a beautiful city. It is, however, mine — every shotgun house and live oak and unsigned blues bar of it.
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