Rooted in the classic skills of country music’s past, but finding new ways to deliver three chords and the truth, Dylan Marlowe is an emerging Sony Music Nashville artist who proves tradition and convention are very different things.

Drawing on the familiar themes of small-town youth, but amplified with punk rock propulsion and outside-the-county-line lyricism, his approach to country music is anything but tried and true … more like “why the hell not?” Yet his debut album Mid-Twenties Crisis will resonate across the heartland – the simple truth of a complicated age, spoken plain (just against the grain).

“It just tells the story of what I’ve been through the last few years,” the pathfinding singer-songwriter explains. “The twenties are tough. And we don’t need any more whiskey songs.”

Raised in the quiet college town of Statesboro, Georgia, Marlowe’s love of something different has always been clear. Called to the woods and keeping time by whatever fish or game was in season, the future star grew up cutting his own trails, and had a soundtrack to match. From Eric Church and Kenny Chesney to Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte and Blink-182, it was all about storytelling and hard-edged intensity (plus a little anti-establishment swagger) – anything that helped capture the dueling desires of sticking to his roots, while breaking out of the routine.