California native Nicki Bluhm currently resides in Nashville, TN re-invigorated as a songwriter and performer. Embarking on her second decade of releasing albums, Nicki stepped out on her own with the 2018 release of ‘To Rise You Gotta Fall’, a collection of songs exploring old endings and new beginnings. Eager to try new things in unfamiliar places, Bluhm decided to record at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording Services in Memphis, TN and enlisted producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price, Calexico) to take the helm. After a year of virtual performing, Nicki is excited to return to the road playing live shows as a solo artist, with her Nashville band and with a variety of musicians and longtime friends in new and creative iterations. Having also shared the stage with such luminaries as the Infamous Stringdusters, The Wood Brothers, Geroge Porter Jr. and Phil Lesh, her collaborative efforts have made way for new bright-eyed interpretations of her existing catalog while inspiring fresh material to be released in the near future.

“Call it ‘Californicana’— country-rock soaked in sun and surf." 

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Biography
Occasional Mustache was founded in early 2011, but the true seeds that blossomed into the "stash" began a decade earlier, when musicians Chad "Chancho" Schmid and Kurt "Ku Dog" Lindgren found themselves working together as wild land firefighters in a remote location in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Long shifts of running chainsaws and piling brush gave inspiration to songwriting and guitar pickin' in the post-work hours. This synthesis of work and play, business and pleasure, would become the trademark of the songwriters' sound, as the duo cultivated a cache of songs together which began with the Wadsworth Bluff Rats. The "Bluffrats" formed in 2008 when Schmid and Lindgren hooked up with Jordan Martin (drums), Dominic Ranaletti (guitars), and Karl Von Kries (flute, percussion, vocals) in Pismo Beach, California. The group played occasional shows around the central coast and valley for a couple of years and began recording an albumin 2009 at Karl Von Kries's studio in Grover Beach, California. The album was completed in summer of 2011 , but by that time the original line up had disbanded. Lindgren and Schmid had continued their song writing and in late 2011 decided to move forward as Occassional Mustache. An accomplished central coast drummer named Wyatt Lund (Truth About Seafood) collaborated with the duo and began recording an album in Porterville, California at Soundgarden Studio. Originally conceived as a 2nd Bluffrats album, the sessions lacked Von Kries and Ranaletti, and would take a huge turn when Lindgren's uncle, guitarist John Goux, entered the picture and offered his creative talents to the project. Goux's resume as a professional musican reads like a who's who across the spectrum of popular music in the last 30 years, having worked with such recording giants as Dolly Parton, Ray Charles, Lady Gaga, and and Christina Aguilera. Goux's midas touch transcends that of a mere guitar player, as arranger and producer could also be added to his contributions on slide guitar, mandolin, and more. The result is a unique blend of the raw and the polished, in an album that spans the emotional and melodic spectrum. Along with Goux, Drummer Ron Sloan (Don't Mean Maybe) was added in 2012.

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