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Crick Kinnard

Crick Kinnard is Pawn Island Records' Appalachian blues and country project.

Appalachian blues, country grit, battered-heart storytelling, and rough-edged songcraft with a weathered soul.

Appalachian blues / country grit 4 releases Press kit public
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Empty Chambers currently anchors the Crick Kinnard catalog page.
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Empty Chambers

Single / Jul 3, 2026 / 1 track

A roots-noir single set in the quiet between guilt, mercy, and one more road out.

Project Identity

World and Sound

Crick Kinnard is the Appalachian blues and country project within Pawn Island Records. The project's world is rough-edged, plainspoken, and emotionally worn-in: songs about beaten hearts, complicated love, humor, damage, appetite, and survival.

The project should not be over-sanded into clean Nashville language. Its value is in the grit: a lived-in, barroom, front-porch, backroad sensibility that can be funny, bruised, and sincere at the same time.

Crick Kinnard belongs in the lane where country storytelling meets blues wear, where rough phrasing and plain speech carry real emotional force.

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Send Me

Single / Jun 1, 2026 / 1 track

A roots-country single about duty, family, and the heavy quiet before signing your name and stepping into the unknown.

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That's Fair

Album / May 1, 2026

A plainspoken Crick Kinnard release in the Appalachian blues and country lane: rough-edged, bruised, dry, and human.

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Crick Kinnard is Pawn Island Records' Appalachian blues and country project, built around battered-heart storytelling, rough-edged songcraft, and plainspoken music with a weathered soul.