Tristen w/ The Prescriptions & Abby Johnson at Mercy Lounge Completed COVID-19 vaccine card OR negative PCR/rapid test result required for entry. See here for additional info. VALID GOV'T ISSUED PHOTO ID REQUIRED - NO EXCEPTIONS Tristen “When you have a child, you begin to think about, ‘What do I want to tell him? What's important to pass on?’,” Tristen asks herself. “Stories of love. That's ultimately where art holds its lasting influence and lives on through generations, despite the corruption and violence surrounding it. All we can do is create a message worthy of our ancestors, heroically honest, while working on ourselves enough to break the cycle. At the end of the day, we have to look inward.” Meditations on the human condition — the patterns of behavior we’ve inherited, whether we’re conscious of them or not — and stories of love in all its complicated forms abound on Tristen’s fourth album Aquatic Flowers. Out June 4th on Mama Bird Recording Co., Aquatic Flowers brims with incisive pop-folk tracks ruminating on the ways we attempt to feel in control in a chaotic world, the past that informs us, and how to let go in order to grow. Aquatic Flowers finds Tristen further honing her deft ability to craft “hooky arrangements that tickle the ear and won’t leave your brain alone” (NPR). She and her husband Buddy Hughen recorded and produced the record in their home studio Tight Squeeze. “This record, I had a real desire to not overcomplicate things, to get really close to what I have given in the past to my demos, which for me is the most inspired time of making something, right in the beginning, feeling it the most at that moment because you just wrote it and it’s on your mind.” The Prescriptions Before the pandemic, THE PRESCRIPTIONS released a new album (Hollywood Gold) on Single Lock Records, toured throughout the United States (playing rooms like The Troubadour and the Bluebird Theatre), showcased officially at SXSW, played the kickoff party for US Senator Doug Jones’ reelection campaign, recorded a live album in Memphis with DittyTV, took the stage after Mavis Staples at Jason Isbell’s Shoals Fest… and finished the year playing a New Year’s Eve show on the beach in Florida. Not a bad year. After the pandemic? Stay tuned. Abby Johnson With fresh energy and bright intuition, Abby Johnson offers timeless folk songwriting teeming with a classic Nashville golden-era sheen. Johnson draws upon genre-spanning influences and wrangles them effortlessly into her own expression: “I want my songs to sound familiar, but tell you something new,” she says. The duality of Laurel Canyon nostalgia and indie rock blend effortlessly in her songs, polished further by the airtight backing band of fellow Nashvillians, Ornament.