Borrowing from many and beholden to none, Johnny Mullenax plays a raucous musical smorgasbord he calls “funky country bluegrass.” Though it’s rare for an Americana/country band lead singer also to play lead electric guitar, for the Tulsa, Oklahoma native, splicing lightning-fast solos in between lyric lines appears to be second nature. Mullenax is singularly unconcerned with meeting the expectations of any one descriptor precisely.

“He's a poet and he's a picker, he's a prophet and he's a pusher / He's a pilgrim and a preacher… partly truth and partly fiction,” sings Kris Kristofferson in his seminal song, “Pilgrim, Chapter 33,” inspired by famous wanderers like Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Johnny Cash.

On Sundays after church when country singer/songwriter Hannah Juanita was a child, her family congregated at her grandparents’ house. There was food and football. And in the background, her grandfather on the couch picking his Gibson Hummingbird guitar (100^th anniversary edition). The gospel and bluegrass music he played was so much a part of the fabric of her childhood, it’s hard to distinguish any one song.