Palomino Motel

First video release from Ismay
Directed by Avery Hellman
Song produced by Eric Feldman and Gabriel Shepard
www.ismaymusic.com

Coming from the coastal hills of Petaluma, California, Ismay represents the work of singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band, Avery Hellman. From a young age, Avery was brought up on legendary bluegrass, old time, and folk musicians such as Doc Watson, Hazel Dickens and Townes Van Zandt and learned to sing and play through performing this traditional American music. Throughout the years, the vastly different sounds of Captain Beefheart, Cat Power, Elliott Smith, and Phosphorescent combined to influence Ismay’s carefully constructed lyrics and melodies with an electrified sound in what could simply be described as Americana.

The music of Ismay is also deeply influenced by the landscape of the American west, those that write about it—Terry Tempest Williams, Robert Bullard, John Steinbeck—and the social and environmental movements that work within it. From these stories came the name Ismay, titled after a railroad town in the badlands of Montana.