American Tune: Simon, Croce & Taylor With Award-Winning Singer-Songwriter Tom Glynn

American Tune: Simon, Croce & Taylor takes you on a magical trip back to the 1970s to experience the timeless music and prolific songwriting of Paul Simon, Jim Croce and James Taylor. Relive the intimate storytelling, intricate chord changes and breathtaking melodies of these gifted artists – their work building on and transcending the more traditional folk-influenced acoustic music of the previous decade.

American Tune: Simon, Croce & Taylor showcases the songs you know and love from these master craftsmen during this brilliant span, framed in engaging stories about the artists themselves.

Tom Glynn is a John Lennon Songwriting Contest winner and a Boston Music Award nominee for Outstanding Songwriter. A number of his songs have been chosen by NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association) for their coveted Top 40 honor, and his music has been featured on ABC, Fox, Lifetime and Showtime.

Hannah Aldridge grew up on the muddy banks of Muscle Shoals—her birthright is music and Alabama (she’s the daughter of Hall of Fame writer Walt Aldridge). A reckoning between her coming-of-age in the South and a lifetime of trying to create an identity outside of it, her songs strike a delicate balance between rebellion and self-discovery. With a voice that is equal parts gritty and melodic, Hannah took to the road with her acclaimed debut album Razor Wire, superb follow-up Gold Rush and Live in Black and White. Aldridge expanded her artistic vision with 2023’s ambitious, cinematic Dream of America, which  peers through the lens of fading Hollywood starlets, charming psychopaths and weary vagabonds - navigating society’s underbelly through dark, romantic vignettes. 

Melanie MacLaren’s deliberate, soul-stirring voice, wistful guitar playing, and keen ability to write about life as if life were writing itself is everything you could want from a modern folk musician. Her lyrics have been described as “haunting yet humorous” and possessing a “sentimental cynicism” that “oozes with Gen-Z relatability.” This duality shines through in all aspects of her music— she’s a classic finger-style guitar who grew up playing classical but uses ambient beds and distorted traditional instruments to punctuate her compositions. Melanie’s latest EP, Bloodlust, is part of a larger album project due out in the summer of 2025. Drawing deeply from 90’s alt-country influences, with notes of Lucinda Williams, The Silver Jews, Gillian Welch, and John Prine, it brings out Melanie’s inborn classic Americana sensibilities while staying true to her instinct for flipping conventions of genre and subject matter on their heads.