ELDR

When Jameson Elder and Hanna Rae met in Nashville in 2013, they were both fresh-faced singer-songwriters learning to navigate the musical landscape. Like many young Nashville artists, they met up several times to write. A mutual love of music led to a love of a different sort, and the pair were married in 2016. Both pursued their individual careers, Hanna released two folk-pop EPs including 2018’s Without Letting Go, while Jameson released an EP and his debut full length album Prodigals & Thieves with more of an americana-rock sound.

From the start, they always intended to record music together. Hanna recalls that “for years, people would come up to us after a show and ask when we were planning on releasing music together. We’d just laugh and say ‘oh, one of these days’. We talked about it a lot, but we just never fully dove in.”

Despite being an incredibly difficult year, 2020 proved fruitful ground for the duo to finally go all in. They wrote and produced their debut EP, Nowhere Else To Go, almost entirely in their Nashville home while the nation was in lockdown. Songs on the EP range from the deep sorrow of “Coming Undone”, written the week that lockdown hit, to “Safe With You”, a lively folk-rock song that highlights the joy of having someone to walk with you through uncertain circumstances. With influences ranging from Drew and Ellie Holcomb to The Lone Bellow, Hanna and Jameson found a way to meet right in the middle of their individual sounds.