Folksinger Ben Sollee has an appreciation for his roots. When he toured last summer, he proudly displayed this fact both musically and visually by performing in front of one of fellow Kentuckian Phillip March Jones’s 20-by-12-foot “barn paintings,” canvases made using dirt, grass and flowers ground into the paint. So it was only natural that Jones would return the favor by inviting Sollee to perform during his monthlong art show at Cameo in March. “My work and his music come from the same place, and we tend to do things that are about our identity as Southerners,” says Jones. “Bands and artists generally work together, but it’s always that the artist does an album cover or a T-shirt, and there’s nothing interesting about that. We were just trying to represent.”

On the Outside Looking In by Christine Huskisson, CC Magazine, July 30, 2008