Songwriter and artist Tenille Townes is a certified star in Canada where she’s won heaps of awards and seen her moving songs top the country charts. In over a dozen years in Nashville, she’s been an impressive songwriter with one foot in major label country and another in Americana. Now with a lovely self-produced acoustic album called The Acrobat, Townes points to an independent future with a unique vision and a renewed sense of self.
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Rhett Miller joins us for episode seven of WMOT's 2026 30A Songwriters Sessions, where we invite artists to perform acoustic sets in a beach house turned studio near Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, during the 30A Songwriters Festival. Watch the full 3-song set and behind-the-scenes interview here.
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