Micah P. Hinson, Union Chapel

Country music hoodlum Micah P. Hinson has the most wounded heart in Tennessee, as well as two crushed arms, recently -miraculously- healed. He’ll tell you all about it at the end of April, when he comes to Union Chapel. 

The 33-year-old singer-songwriter - who grew up in the capital of country music, Memphis, TN- got his big break in 2000 when his first demo, The Baby and the Satellite, earned him a record deal. Since then he has made six records out of his alt-country Americana tracks.

Hinson's voice is all gravel, whiskey and day-old melancholy. His country Gothic recalls the greats: Jonny Cash, Willie Nelson. Yet the lackadaisical delivery of his grieving, slightly hungover lyrics is entirely his own. His repertoire is expansive, from lighter ditties to dark country odysseys and bluegrassier tracks.

His latest album, Micah P. Hinson And the Nothing conjures a mournful American landscape. The opener is surprising: a rocky, spiky hoe-down How are you Just a Dream? But thereafter come the horizon-contemplating delicates we associate with Hinson: homages to Southern romance like God is Good and On the Way Home.