Todd Hearon is an award-winning poet, songwriter and author, born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. The hymns and folk songs of his youth continue to influence his music, along with more edgy, contemporary Americana and Country-Rock sounds. He played bass and guitar for The Spin, one of the most successful alternative rock bands to come out of the Dallas Deep Ellum scene in the 1990s. After a career spanning six years and four albums, extensive touring and the cultivation of a broad fan base, he hung up his musical hat for graduate school in Boston, earning his Masters and PhD in English and Irish Studies, and co-founding The Bridge Theater Company, an independent troupe in Boston’s Theater District. He’s the author of three collections of poems, STRANGE LAND, NO OTHER GODS and CROWS IN EDEN, a novella, DO GEESE SEE GOD and a number of plays, one of which (WIVES OF THE DEAD) received the Paul Green Playwrights Prize (North Carolina Writers Network). His poems have received the PEN/New England ”Discovery” Award, the Friends of Literature Prize (Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation), the Rumi Poetry Prize (Arts & Letters) and the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize (Sarah Lawrence College); he was the Dobie Paisano Fellow/Writer-in-Residence at the University of Texas in Austin and served as the Dartmouth College Poet-in-Residence at the Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire. His poems, essays and plays have appeared widely in literary journals in this country and abroad.
Music has never been far from his center, even as he extended his reaches into other art forms. Armed with a 1950 Gibson J-50 named Myrtle, and a host of new songs that hearken back to his roots in southern folkways and deep-flowing Americana streams, he’s back, ready to share his music with the world. His first solo album, BORDER RADIO (2021), was listed in "Best Seacoast Music of 2021" and featured in Boston's SKOPE magazine, garnering thousands of streams on Spotify and Apple iTunes, earning nominations for Best Album of the Year and Best Singer-Songwriter (New England Music Awards). His second album, YODELADY, appeared in fall, 2023, and immediately surged to over 16,000 streams on Spotify alone. He and his band are actively promoting the album with sold-out shows in New England, with plans to extend their touring radius over the coming year. A third album, IMPOSSIBLE MAN, produced by the legendary Don Dixon and recorded at Mitch Easter's Fidelitorium Studio in North Carolina, will release summer 2024. Hearon was recipient of the Lyrics Prize (first place) from AMERICAN SONGWRITER magazine and was recently named finalist/runner up (after Dom Flemons) for the 2024 International Acoustic Music Awards.
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