Petal Motel is blessed to have contributing author Lou Turner return with another fantastic interview with a musician creating understated intricate folk from Appalachia. Sam Fuller Smith, aka Whisperer’s Piedmont Pastimes is a tender and sentimental collection of tunes, pondering fatherhood, the musical roots of the Carolinas, and the possibility for a future of possibilities for his newborn son. Featuring gorgeous slide, Fuller’s mesmerizing picking, and his gentle vocals and pensive lyrics, Piedmont Pastimes is ultimately about a sense of home and its meaning, both on a micro and macro level. Piedmont Pastimes by Sam Fuller-Smith LT: The record is…

Petal Motel is pleased to publish our first contributor who isn’t Lara. Musician, poet, and writer Lou Turner was kind enough to conduct this wonderful interview with the most talented Wes Tirey about his latest album, The Midwest Book of the Dead, out April 30th on Dear Life Records. The Midwest Book of the Dead by Wes Tirey Like most of us, Wes Tirey had a tough 2020. The Asheville-based songwriter and poet lost his full-time job and went through a break-up, but emerged with a double album of new songs called The Midwest Book of the Dead—as well as…