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.