We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Adam Holley. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Adam below.

Adam, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Do you feel you or your work has ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized? If so, tell us the story and how/why it happened and if there are any interesting learnings or insights you took from the experience?

I think this could actually describe my band’s genre. It hasn’t necessarily been a bad thing though. We’ve been booked on some very diverse shows over the years and had some air play on multiple radio stations. From country to rock and everything in between.

Adam, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I guess I’ve always had some strange need to be creative. I’ve played music from a young age. My ideas when I started were that if you were going to make a career of it, you better have your own songs. So, I started with that mindset from the beginning.
I spent about 10 years as a professional tattoo artist, I was hoping that would be all I’d ever need to have a creative outlet while making a living. Unfortunately, most of the studios I worked in preferred an assembly line type of output, so that turned me off completely. Fast forward a few years later, the songwriting bug showed up again and it was time to get a band started.

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

In terms of bands and musicians, it’s simple: listen, give the band you’ve never heard of a chance. Too many people have been sold on the idea that the only things worth your time and support are corporate-backed “products”. I’ll guarantee, you’ll get more heart, soul, and honesty from an unsigned artist than anyone you’ll hear on the top 40.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

In the beginning, it was just to be able to get these songs into the ears of strangers, and see if we had something. We ended up doing things that were way out of what I ever imagined.