Wren Hollis
Quiet songs with grit under the fingernails.
A West Texas kid who learned harmony in a church pew and songwriting in a Ford Ranger, now two EPs into a self-managed run out of Austin. New single, County Line, out 9 October 2026.
- Releases
- Two EPs, self-released
- Residency
- Monthly, The Tin Lantern
- Live
- 62 shows in two years
- Press
- “Not one wasted verse” · Longneck Radio Hour
Booking and press · the artist, direct · contact details on request
Sourcing rule
Nothing in a kit we build is invented, inflated, or implied. Quotes come from what was written, support slots are stated exactly as they happened, and a number goes in only if it's current and helps. An unimpressive figure left out is invisible; an inflated one is checkable, and a promoter who catches a single one discards the kit and remembers the name. Wren's quotes and outlets below are written for this demonstration, because Wren doesn't exist. Yours are the ones you actually got.
Press
Three from the last eighteen months, shortest first. Pull-quotes are trimmed to the line that does work; each names its outlet so the full piece can be found.
Six songs and not one wasted verse.Longneck Radio Hour · on Yard Sale Gospel
Hollis writes like someone who has spent a lot of time in a truck with nothing to do but notice things. The details land because they're not decorative.Dust & Diesel · March 2026
The Tin Lantern residency has quietly become one of the better standing rooms in East Austin, largely on the strength of the last thirty seconds of the set, when the room sings the chorus back without being asked.The Caprock Review · June 2026
Bios
Third person, which is the industry default. All three say the same things at different sizes, so they never contradict each other in a program.
Wren Hollis writes dusty alt-country out of Austin, by way of Lubbock: tape-warm acoustics, brushed drums, and pedal steel that sits in the room like heat off asphalt. Two self-released EPs and a monthly residency at The Tin Lantern. New single County Line lands 9 October 2026.
Wren Hollis learned harmony in a church pew in Lubbock and songwriting in the cab of a Ford Ranger. Now in Austin, two self-released EPs deep, they write dusty alt-country built from tape-warm acoustics, brushed drums and pedal steel that hangs like heat off asphalt. Caliche and Yard Sale Gospel were made on lunch breaks from a print-shop job and recorded for the price of a used amp. A monthly residency at The Tin Lantern has become the room the songs are written for. The new single, County Line, arrives 9 October 2026.
Wren Hollis grew up in Lubbock, learned harmony in a church pew, and got a pawn-shop parlor guitar at fourteen. The songs started in the cab of a Ford Ranger on the drive between the two, and they haven't changed shape since: short, plain, and built around one image held long enough to matter.
At twenty-four Wren moved to Austin and took a job at a print shop, writing on lunch breaks. That's where both EPs came from. Caliche, five songs, arrived in 2024, made for roughly the cost of a used amp. Yard Sale Gospel, six songs, followed in November 2025 after a longer gap than intended, when the print-shop job went full time and the writing had to fit around it.
The live work is where the project has grown. Sixty-two shows in two years, most of them small rooms across the Texas triangle, and for the last stretch a monthly residency at The Tin Lantern in East Austin. The residency has become the room the songs are tested in and increasingly the room they're written for. Regulars sing the last chorus back.
The sound is tape-warm acoustics, brushed drums, pedal steel like heat shimmer, and group vocals arriving late. It owes more to the drive than the destination, which is a fair description of the songs as well.
County Line, a new single, is out 9 October 2026. A first regional tour is in planning for February and March 2027.
Booking pitches
Both under 150 words. Promoters read these on a phone between load-ins, so the ask is in the first two lines and the links are at the bottom where they expect them.
Cold venue103 words
Subject: Wren Hollis · Austin alt-country · available Feb or Mar
Hi [name],
I play dusty alt-country out of Austin, two EPs in, and I run a monthly residency at The Tin Lantern that draws about 45 to a 60-seat room. I'm looking for a Thursday or Friday in February or March and would rather open for the right local act than headline the wrong night.
Sixty-two shows in the last two years, mostly rooms your size, and I bring a list of 640 people plus whoever the residency sends.
New single out 9 October if you want to hear where it's going.
Two songs and a live clip: [links]
Thanks for reading,
Wren
Support slot73 words
Subject: Support for [headliner], 14 Mar · Wren Hollis
Hi [name],
I saw [headliner] is playing on 14 March and I'd like to be considered for support. We share an audience more than a sound: quieter, alt-country, pedal steel.
I'm Austin-based, two EPs self-released, monthly residency at The Tin Lantern. I can bring a room, and I can also get off stage on time.
Live clip and the new single: [links]
Happy to be told no. Thanks either way,
Wren
Strongest first, not most complete. A promoter clicks one. (live links land in your delivered kit)
- Listen
- spotify · artist page
- Live clip
- residency, August, one song
- New single
- pre-save, County Line
- @wrenhollis
- Mailing list
- signup
Credits
Verifiable only. Everything here is on the recordings or the posters.
- Caliche
- Written by Wren Hollis. Engineered by Sam Ordoñez. Pedal steel, Dell Hartigan.
- Yard Sale Gospel
- Written by Wren Hollis, except Ranger Radio and Long Road Home, co-written with Junie Vasquez. Engineered by Sam Ordoñez.
- County Line
- Written by Wren Hollis. Engineered by Sam Ordoñez.
- Live
- 62 shows. Monthly residency, The Tin Lantern, East Austin.
Photo selects
Three from the March shoot. What each is for, and what each can't do.
Horizontal, room light, wide
The press header. Wall clear to the left of the subject, which is where a publication puts its title.
Use first. This is the one to send when only one is asked for.
Vertical, three-quarter, tape room
Socials and the streaming profile. The denim and the tape machine read at thumbnail size, which matters more here than the face does.
Limitation: too tight for any text overlay.
Square crop
Derived from the vertical. For profile pictures and anywhere a platform crops to a circle.
Limitation: derived, so it can't be printed large.
The person in the photographs is a stand-in. Wren Hollis is a demonstration artist.
There's no horizontal live shot with the room visible behind you, and that's the photo a mid-size venue asks for. Specifically: a horizontal frame from the side of the stage at the residency, taken from the back third of the room, with the audience in the foreground and space above your head for text. Not “better photos”, that one.
Paste-ready blocks
Wren Hollis writes dusty alt-country out of Austin, two self-released EPs in, with a monthly residency at The Tin Lantern that regulars sing back. The new single, County Line, is out 9 October. Tape-warm, brushed drums, pedal steel like heat off asphalt. Happy to send the track early if it's a fit.
Hey, I play alt-country in Austin, monthly residency at The Tin Lantern, new single out 9 Oct. Would love to play with you sometime if it ever makes sense. Here's one song: [link]
Wren Hollis is an alt-country songwriter based in Austin, Texas, originally from Lubbock. Two self-released EPs, Caliche (2024) and Yard Sale Gospel (2025), and a monthly residency at The Tin Lantern. New single County Line out 9 October 2026. Self-managed.
Built 21 August 2026 from the artist's own supplied credits, dates and photographs. Every claim in this kit is verifiable and nothing has been added to make it read better. This kit is built to get read; whether it gets a booking is the promoter's decision and nothing here implies otherwise.