49 Winchester

When: 30th May 2024
Location: SWG3 Galvanizers

49 Winchester are a Virginia based Appalachian folk band. Coming to Glasgow’s SWG3 Galvanizers on 30th May 2024.

With its fourth studio album “Fortune Favors The Bold,” Russell County, Virginia-based 49 Winchester is ready and roaring to break onto the national scene with its unique brand of tear-in-your-beer alt-country, sticky barroom floor rock-n-roll, and high-octane Appalachian folk.

Formed eight years ago on Winchester Street in the small mountain town of Castlewood, Virginia (population: 2,045), the band started as a rag tag bunch of neighbourhood teenagers who just wanted to get together for the sake of playing together. Aside from lead singer/guitarist Isaac Gibson, there’s also his childhood friend, bassist Chase Chafin, alongside other Castlewood comrades—guitarist Bus Shelton, and Noah Patrick on pedal steel.

“From day one, it’s always been a band and it will always be about being a band. This is everything, everything we love about music—we’re going for broke with this thing,” says Gibson. “And that gives us a unique perspective because it’s still the same guys. It’s still all of us from Castlewood traveling around, playing music and making this band a reality—this is a story of growth.”

And it’s that sense of growth—more so, a sense of self—at the core of “Fortune Favors The Bold.” It’s not only a record that showcases the current state of 49 Winchester, it’s a melodic stake in the ground of howt his group is constantly evolving and taking shape, sonically and lyrically.