How Black Opry provided a second opportunity to follow his music career dream.
Black Opry has been generating a lot of media interest lately as it attempts to build a network and community to support black artists playing American roots music, including country, americana, blues 
and folk. What started as a website and touring revue has just added a record label, Black Opry Records distributed by Thirty Tigers, to its portfolio. The first release on the label is “The Phoenix” by Jett Holden, and while it is his first album release it also marks his return to the music business. Americana UK’s Martin Johnson caught up with Jett Holden over Zoom to discuss his return to the music business and his thoughts on being the first artist to release an album on Black Opry Records. He explains that the songs are mainly about himself, and that ‘Taxidermy’ is the only really political song on the album. While he shares his wide range of musical influences growing up, Jett Holden explains that it is his love of storytelling that drew him to country music.
