artists of character represented w/ character
Favorite Son is a full-service booking agency specializing in individualized, strategic partnerships with our clients and venue partners. We work with artists of character, emphasizing career growth, mutually beneficial relationships, and safety for all.
ABOUT FAVORITE SON
EXPERIENCE
Favorite Son, LLC was founded by David Priebe. David has over 20 years of experience in the music industry.
He began his career as a musician, and after receiving a degree in Music Business from McNally Smith College of Music, began booking and managing artists independently. In 2009 he joined Green Room Music Source, where he became a managing partner and remained until 2020 when he brokered a deal to merge into Fleming Artists. Along the way he has taught collegiate courses, spoke and panneled and numerous conferences and events sharing knowledge and always continuing to learn. At the start of 2022, David opened Favorite Son with a small, ambitious team to continue the mission of helping artists succeed doing what they love.
MISSION | SAFER SPACES + INCLUSION
The music industry has never been an easy place for artists to succeed, and the last thing any artist needs is to face additional challenges because of their gender, race, orientation, faith, etc. We are committed to supporting venues, promoters, businesses, and Artists who are inclusive and ethical in their approach to doing business. Moreover, when an artist or business is guilty of harassment, discrimination, or unethical behavior, we will not work with them until toxic elements are removed and wrongs have been made right to the full extent they can be. We can, and will, demand better. Working together, we can build a better community and industry for us to work in.
SO, WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
Favorite Son is a full-service booking agency. Like most agencies, we handle the calendars of touring musicians using state-of-the-art software run by an experienced team. We rely on a relationship-driven approach to working with artists and promoters across the United States and Canada.
So, what makes us different?
In today's landscape, most artists no longer have an entire team supporting them. Because of that, they often lean on the team members they do have to help in their overall development and success. We embrace that mentality and are always willing to assist our artists with general advice and strategies. We also offer all our clients organizational materials, referrals, and other resources. And we're not afraid to step across the line into management territory from time to time. We think that's the way to treat clients. We're not the big guys, after all ... we're the good guys! :)
ARTISTS
Best Ex
Best Ex might be a name you don't recall — but the band is certainly familiar. Fronted by singer/songwriter Mariel Loveland, the pop-speckled project toured across the US and UK as Candy Hearts, a wide-eyed punk band rooted in the nostalgic world of Vans Warped tour and the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack.
Bonner Black
Bonner Black, the classically trained ballerina turned Nashville Indie Pop singer/songwriter from Hot Rock, TN, started dancing at a young age before switching gears and making regular trips to Nashville to write and perform at 14. At 17, Black moved there officially; she embarked on her first regional tour shortly thereafter and participated in four NSAI lobbying trips. She received the Artist Entrepreneur Award by the Oxford Center of Entrepreneurs at The TimesCenter in New York City in 2016. Fast forward to today, and as an independent artist, Black has amassed over 344.1k streams across all platforms while cultivating an enthusiastic and engaged fan base and online community. Her Debut EP, Out Of Dreams, tells stories of lost love with sharp lyrics and melodies designed to burrow deep into your soul.
Cole Ritter
and The Night Owls
Cole Ritter and The Night Owls have since been pioneering new sonic spaces and finding their very own home-grown sound by combining genres such as country, rock, and folk to make completely modern, yet nostalgic music. Cole Ritter and The Night Owls are quickly rising and can’t wait to share their music with the world.
David Berkeley
David Berkeley’s gift as a songwriter and storyteller is that he sees the tragedy and comedy in life, writing songs capable of both breaking and healing the heart. Berkeley has been called a “musical poet,” by the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times praises his “lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.”
Enemy Planes
Enemy Planes, indie-rock outfit from Minnesota, Echoes of M83, Foster the People, and acid jazz created a canvas for frontman Casey Call’s vocal lines to float above a sonic storm. The band cast spells on its audience, aided by their futuristic use of traditional electric lap-steel sounds.
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Erinn Peet Lukes
With her pure, angelic voice and bluegrass-inspired sensibilities, Erinn Peet Lukes makes music that crosses genres with melodies that are fun and memorable. Growing up in Southern California, the singer/songwriter left home at 18 to explore the music scenes in Seattle, New York City, and Denver, writing and performing along the way. After years of touring with her popular bluegrass band Thunder and Rain, she moved to Nashville and recorded a pop, country, and rock-influenced EP with a top-notch team. In her decade-long career, Erinn has shared the stage with great songwriters such as Jennifer Knapp and John Paul White of the Civil Wars. Her songwriting has gotten her placed in the Kerrville New Folk Competition (2018) and the Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriting Competition (2021). In the summer of 2021, she graced the stage of the world-famous Station Inn in Nashville, TN, for the very first time....but definitely not the last!
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Francesca Brown
Singer-songwriter Francesca Brown is a California native steeped in the sound and visual traditions of the Southwest. Her love for old-timey country and folk is offset by an inherent Laurel Canyon meets California Country vibe. All of these influences coexist in her evocative soundscapes, which fall somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Loretta Lynn.
Jackson Emmer
Jackson Emmer is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer from Carbondale, Colorado. His work blends humor with heartache and tradition with exploration. Emmer’s writing is often compared to that of John Prine and Guy Clark. He has toured the US since 2009, collaborated with Grammy-winners, and co-written 40+ songs with folk music legend Tom Paxton. Emmer has opened for Robert Earl Keen, Sierra Ferrell, and Tim McGraw. His work has been featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, 1200+ Spotify playlists, and 200+ radio stations worldwide.
Jennifer Knapp
Jennifer Knapp is a singer-songwriter, author, speaker & LGBTQ advocate who has sold over 1 million albums, won 4 Dove Awards, and earned 2 Grammy nominations. She has released 7 studio albums, toured the globe & received critical acclaim for both her music & advocacy work for LGBTQ people of faith.
Jolie Holland
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. As evident in her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core she cannot reach in song.
Mark Mallman
Mallman's stage persona precedes him, but stepping back one sees a stunning body of recorded work. his expansive catalog of indefinitely emotional and masterfully orchestrated songs has been blasted over airwaves worldwide from MTV to NPR. USA Today, Wired, NME have all sung his praises. His ninth full-length album comes fresh off the heels of a widely-adorned memoir on happy music as medicine against grief and anxiety.
MAUDLIN
MAUDLIN writes music about love, lust, and what goes bump in the night— David & Priscilla pride themselves on super boppy hits, enormous energy, and earworm hooks. Fans of the Pixies & Weezer will love their songwriting, and fans of Lucy Dacus, Bully, and Mates of States will love the vocals' big harmonies and female energy
Nathan Kalish
Nathan Kalish is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, and wandering storyteller. Born in Milwaukee, WI, to missionary parents, he was moved around for most of his formative years. By the time Kalish had graduated high school, he had already lived all over the Midwest, as well as Western Europe, and directly after the wall fell in Eastern Europe.” He then spent over a decade performing music across both, playing bars and Honky-Tonks for 200+ shows a year. Now he lives and creates in Nashville, TN.
REDD
Redd is a Knoxville-based Americana project led by Redd Daugherty. After placing in the top forty of Season 19 of American Idol, Redd left her teaching career behind to pursue music full-time. Starting during the pandemic, the band has become a regional mainstay performing over 200 times in Tennessee and surrounding areas. Their live sound features Will Ross (upright bass) and Gavin Gregg (mandolin) backing Redd as she channels a range of sounds from Janis Joplin to Norah Jones, all with her unique Appalachian twist.
Rachel Sumner
& Traveling Light
With songs as sweet and biting as the nectar and venom in her voice, Rachel Sumner has been captivating audiences throughout the northeast with her exciting new band Traveling Light. While their instrumentation and textures show roots deep in bluegrass and traditional folk music, Sumner's lyric-forward writing and penchant for snaking chord progressions demand something beyond folk conventions, highlighting the acrobatic range of her brilliant bandmates Kat Wallace (fiddle/harmonies) and Mike Siegel (upright bass).
The Resonant Rogues
Asheville, North Carolina’s genre-hopping songwriters, The Resonant Rogues, have won over audiences worldwide with their signature blend of string band music since 2013. Following their musical inspirations from the Appalachian mountains to the Balkans, through Paris by way of New Orleans, their original songs speak to the heart with poetic lyrics, and appeal to the ears with stellar musicianship and arrangement.
South For Winter
With a blend of dreamy acoustic duets, foot-stomping Folk, and bluesy murder ballads, New Zealand-born and Nashville-based South for Winter’s sound is as eclectic as their origins. The band is composed of New Zealander Nick Stone, Colorado native Dani Cichon, and Michigander Alex Stradal, and together the three multi-instrumentalists and songwriters combine elements such as cello, guitar, mandolin, and three-part harmonies into a genre-bending sound described by American Songwriter as “impeccable.”
Tracy Bonham
Tracy Bonham is an artist who has never ceased growing and has never stopped challenging herself, her own talents, or her audience. As PopMatters aptly describes, “Bonham, from the beginning and increasingly over time, is a riveting, complicated maker of pop music.” Her album, Modern Burdens, made Rolling Stone’s Top 50 albums of 2017, which they describe as “a lovingly penned postcard to Bonham’s past self, and a fascinating look at where she’s at right now.”
Vaden Lander
Vaden Landers is a 28-year-old emerging artist from East Tennessee, penning songs that evoke the golden era of country music. With a voice often compared to Hank Sr, this former train-hopper/street-busker has gained a reputation in Asheville, NC as one of the city's finest performers. Billed as "The Yodeling Country Bluesman," he possesses a rare authenticity that carries on the classic tradition.
Yësac
YËSAC is the new solo project from the originator / frontman of acclaimed Minneapolis based band ENEMY PLANES and singer in the San Francisco based GARZA (with Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation). Listen to the Exclusive Preview below for a sneak peek of things to come in spring of 2022 and keep scrolling to stream and watch the debut single “LEYOHAIDO”.
Zach Willdee
Outlaw Country singer Zach Willdee combines energetic performances with his raw talent to bear a voice bigger than his body and stories older than his boots. Growing up in Massachusetts, writing beneath the shade of the New England pines, Zach Willdee began his musical career busking on the street corners of Provincetown, Massachusetts at 14 years old. By age 16, he earned the name “The Barefoot Brother.” Lifeguarding on the Atlantic coast during the day and street performing at night he reflects, “They called me that because I didn’t wear any shoes when I performed on the tarmac. They thought it was the funniest thing that this barefoot lifeguard was playing music.” It wasn’t long before Willdee moved from playing on the tarmac to playing local bars, with lines of people wrapping around the block, waiting to get in.