Emerging in the early 2010s, Lone Star State-based duo Jamestown Revival specialize in harmony-laden, Western-tinged Americana-folk songs in the vein of contemporaries like Lone Bellow, Shovels Rope, and the Lumineers. Debuting in 2014 with the pastoral Utah, the duo have become mainstays of the Americana charts with acclaimed efforts like The Education of a Wandering Man (2016), San Isabel (2019), and Young Man (2022).

Inspired by the likes of Willie Nelson, John Prine, and Western author Louis L'Amour, among others, the group was formed in 2011 around the talents of childhood friends Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance. Growing up together in the small Texas town of Magnolia, Clay and Chance spent their formative years listening to artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Willie Nelson, the Everly Brothers, and Guy Clark, each eventually carving out his own unique niche as a solo artist. The duo's eponymous debut long-player, a highly autobiographical collection of indie folk songs, was recorded to tape in a log cabin in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, and released via Republic Records in 2014. The duo kept things closer to home for their sophomore outing. Recorded in Austin, the rootsy, more rock- and pop-oriented Education of a Wandering Man arrived in October 2016. They enlisted Jamie Mefford (Nathaniel Rateliff, Gregory Alan Isakov) to co-produce their third long-player, San Isabel. Released in 2019, it featured the singles "This Too Shall Pass" and "Crazy World (Judgment Day)," as well as a cover of the Mamas the Papas classic "California Dreaming." 2020 saw the release of the EP A Field Guide to Loneliness, with the Old West-themed Fireside with Louis L'Amour: A Collection of Songs Inspired by Tales from the American West arriving in early 2021. Later that year, the duo issued the singles "These Days," and "Working on Love," both of which appeared on their fourth full-length effort, Young Man, in 2022. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi