Sunday at 12:15pm on the BMI stage. He has the festival all to himself at this time. No other acts play until he is done. Per this bio:
Alex Amen is a twenty-five-year-old artist and songwriter from Texas. At eightee, Alex moved from Texas to California to study filmmaking. After one semester he dropped out and moved onto the “Dittman Family Commune”, a historic commune with ties to the anti war, civil rights, and psychedelic countercultural movements of the mid-60’s. It was here that he formed his first band, “American Slang” in 2017. The band broke up shortly after, resulting in Alex’s move from Southern California to an island in the Puget Sound of Washington State. Here he spent three years in relative isolation, taking up various interests in mycology, mountaineering, poetry, and wooden boat building. As years passed, Alex felt the increasing need to return to California to pursue music. In January of 2023 he self produced his first record (unreleased) in a self built studio at the historic Zorthian Ranch in Altadena, California. Alex now lives in Los Angeles and is performing and releasing music among the growing folk/Americana/country scene in the city.
He has played Newport Folk Festival and Outside Lands and is scheduled to play Americanafest in Nashville.
According to this review: "Alex’s music draws on the sounds of many folk artists of the 60s and 70s such as Jim Croce, John Denver, and America to name a few."
He just has an EP out and a few singles. This may be one of those bookings of about to break-out artists (like Alt-J and Lizzo) that ACL sneaks in on Sunday mornings so when they headline years later they can say they played to 20 people last time they were here.
"This Love of Mine" reminds me of Harry Nillson.
"Got to Go" is good. Cool video, too. Nice mellow Sunday morning music.
This was his most uptempo song. Definite Jim Croce vibe.
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Sounds like we'll be getting there as the gates open. I like his music. Interesting cat too. ;)
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