Of Good Nature + Pierce Edens

Saturday, 5.20.23

Charleston Pour House

Main Stage

8pm doors /9pm show

$20 advance /$25 day of show

Of Good Nature

Of Good Nature (OGN) incites and unites listeners with a fusion-friendly approach to today’s music, uncovering a highly accessible sound that concentrates on positive and feel-good lyrics, uplifting energy and technical musicianship, packed into a potent blend of alternative, soul, rock, groove, and pop. OGN’s unique style and ever-evolving sound is implemented through technical drumming, soulful vocal melodies, and brass instruments, creating extraordinary and excitingly passionate music that is expressed on the stage and on the record.

The band has been actively releasing singles throughout summer 2022 with “Open Your Mind”, “I’ll Fly”, and “Save the World” which are building towards the forthcoming double-EP release concept titled Input and Output.

Also in Summer 2022 OGN served as direct support for Michael Franti & Spearhead’s ‘Follow Your Heart’ Tour, performing in amphitheaters across the east coast and midwest. OGN performed at Summer Camp Music Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Fall Badfish, and announced their fourth invitation to ‘Sail Across the Sun’, Train’s destination music festival at sea.

Fall of 2022 sees Of Good Nature co-headline their national “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Roads” tour with Mishka, their first full headline tour since 2019.

Previous releases include the self-produced Cover EP (2021), led by sing-along favorite “Valerie feat. The Elovaters”, and “Lovely Day”, originally by Bill Withers. Full length albums Everything Turns Gold (2020) and Timeless (2019) were recorded with A-list producer Danny Kalb (Beck, Ben Harper, Foster The People) at White Star Sound Studios in Charlottesville, VA, with each reaching the iTunes and Billboard Charts.

In 2020 the band was selected by Sierra Nevada as a featured artist for its ‘Doing Big Things’ promotion, partnering with RoofAbove Charity to raise donations through live-stream performances to help those in need in the band’s hometown of Charlotte NC.

Pierce Edens

Pierce Edens is an independent musician and singer-songwriter from Western North Carolina. He is best known for his powerful vocals and haunting, fiery music that captivates listening rooms and excites dance floors in equal measure.

Edens has shared the stage with notables such as the Wood Brothers, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earl, Southern Culture on the Skids, and Hayes Carl.

With well over four million streams on multiple platforms and pockets of loyal fans across the nation, audiences clearly indulge in the hard-edged folk sound he creates alongside his long-time bandmate Kevin Reese.

Sitting side-by-side on stage, the musical duo take their audience on a well-crafted journey. Built song-by-song, the room becomes an experiential fortress filled with Edens’ signature vibrato, an unusually soulful, waverly tenor that conveys each song’s emotional depth. He mingles this with potent, guttural hurls that burst from him in pops and crackles.

In addition to singing, Edens plays rhythm guitar and kick drum, employing a stripped-down, less-is-more approach to percussion reminiscent of the White Stripes. Reese accompanies Edens with lead guitar, mandolin, and the occasional banjo, completing the duo’s sound that is both intimate and gritty, atmospheric and raw.

Edens learned to play on a left-handed guitar from someone he describes as “an old-timer on Lonesome Mountain.” Drawing from his southern Appalachian music roots and the grunge-rock that took hold of him in his youth, Edens’ genre-bending style is notoriously hard to pin down. As Journal of Roots Music: No Depression author Bill Kopp writes, ”[Edens] is a gritty troubadour who takes what he needs from each style, blending and bending it to suit the needs of his songs.”

Through the mid- to late-2000s, Edens led a full-piece band called Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work. The band was a rotating cast of local Asheville musicians that eventually whittled down to include Matt Smith on pedal steel, Jesse Hongisto on bass, and Dane Rand on drums. During this time, Edens developed a regional following and self-produced four albums.