Star & Micey

According to Josh Cosby, frontman of Star & Micey, Star was (or perhaps still is) a homeless man in Memphis who sang a song to Cosby about his (Star's) fiancée, Micey. The Memphis-based group -- made up of Cosby, <a href="spotify:artist:2YvLbclRfDHrd3cuPN2tnh">Nick Redmond</a>, Geoff Smith, Jessie Munson, Jeremy Stanfill, and Adam Woodard -- makes winsome, feel-good, old-timey-tinged pop tunes that owe as much to sea shanty-spouting indie acts like <a href="spotify:artist:7ITd48RbLVpUfheE7B86o2">the Decemberists</a> as they do to straight-up bluegrass bands like <a href="spotify:artist:6JjE9yVvCNV5EbUpvS7JcQ">Freakwater</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3bcLBxvaI7GsBzGp3WHnwQ">Nickel Creek</a>. Star & Micey have their roots in the friendship between bassist Smith and frontman Cosby. The two Nashville, Tennessee-based musicians became good friends when they were barely teenagers, and began working on songs together when they were in high school. Star & Micey were born when Cosby passed a demo CD-R along to <a href="spotify:artist:2YvLbclRfDHrd3cuPN2tnh">Redmond</a>, a sound engineer at Nashville's <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ardent+Records%22">Ardent Records</a>. The demo led to <a href="spotify:artist:2YvLbclRfDHrd3cuPN2tnh">Redmond</a> joining the fledgling band, and, to top it off, it led to a record deal at <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ardent%22">Ardent</a>. Their self-titled debut full-length was released in the fall of 2009, and the trio followed it up with a wide-ranging tour of the United States. Upon their return to Memphis, Star & Micey brought three new members into the fold: drummer Stanfill, accordionist Woodard, and violinist Munson. The band released two singles, "12 Days of Memphis" and "Crazy Jean," in 2010; the following year saw the release of their third single, "Back to the Night." Two years later, Star & Micey released the EP I Can't Wait on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Ardent%22">Ardent</a>. Early in 2016, the group returned with the full-length Get 'Em Next Time, which appeared on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Single+Lock+Records%22">Single Lock Records</a>. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi