Biography

Tiffany Williams and Dalton Mills, who present their first release together, Wasted Luck, met in Kentucky’s robust, supportive music community. They’re both Kentucky natives who’ve made homes in Tennessee (she Nashville, he Chattanooga) and gig a lot back home.

Dalton reached out to Tiffany during Covid about co-writing, and they got started on “Worst of Both Worlds,” which would take a couple years to finish after they lost touch for over a year. When they finished it toward the end of 2023, they decided they liked it so well that they’d write another, and that resulted in “I Remember You,” which was a deliberate change-up in tempo and relationship tenor while still keeping with the theme of complicated romance.

Dalton has a penchant for the unpretentious country and folk of bygone days (he’s an old soul who claims the handle “Papaw Mills” on socials), and he recommended The Carter Family’s “Gold Watch and Chain” to round out the EP. They referenced the Emmylou Harris version primarily, though they took it at less of a clip.

A coal miner’s daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter from Eastern Kentucky, Tiffany Williams lives in Nashville, where she writes songs and fiction. She is the recipient of the 2011 Jean Ritchie Fellowship for Appalachian Writing and the 2017 Denny C. Plattner Award for fiction, a 2021 Kerrville New Folk songwriting competition finalist, a 2023 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist, and has been featured on NPR’s “Mountain Stage” and WMOT’s live sessions “Finally Friday From Home.” Dalton Mills is a singer and songwriter from Middlesboro, Kentucky. He’s been writing songs for more than five years now. He writes all facets of life, weaving storytelling and poetry into one sound all his own.