About

The Tenants

Members: Brandon Taylor, Aaron Reese, Harrison Smith, Jason Ball

After forming in May of 2012 to back Taylor’s freshman solo release, Tenants quickly took to the road, picking up new songs, friends, and a few troubles along the way. As the story goes, they lost a radiator in Kansas, some pride in Wyoming, a little bad blood in Colorado, and gallons of sweat and motor oil in at least eight other states. Miraculously, the Holy Ghost (their courageous touring van) and all of the musicians and equipment made it back in one form or another of battered and bruised, but operational.

Since then, the band has been pushing forward with half of them moved from Oxford, MS to Nashville and the others in transition. The band is currently writing new songs, rethinking old ones, and restlessly waiting for each next gig. With their first album in the works, all focus now goes to the studio.

All buildings have a story. If they’re lucky they’ll have many. Some stories will be tall, obscured by fairy tales. Some just fair to middlin, trying not to get squeezed off the edge. And then there are the lowly stories of dread and struggle, the foundation of the building itself. But these stories didn’t construct themselves. Each has been designed according to the occupants’ whims and imagination. In one of these stories, in a room in an apartment, four dudes are jamming.

When they’re not plugged in, you can find them wandering the halls and stair wells, asking for tips and prayers and mercy from the Super. They chase faith and dreams to the roof top and watch them drift up into the clouds, and throw paper planes from windows with bad jokes and scripture scribbled in crayon down to the pedestrians below. In a sense they are mere seekers, and yet, to the senses they are explorers.

However it all shakes down in the end, these nomadic Tenants will give you their best rendition of the events, always in time…and four part harmony.