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Deuterman Productions Presents: Parmalee

Friday, Nov. 10, 6 p.m.

American Country Music (ACM) “New Vocal Duo/
Group of the Year” nominee Parmalee is one of country
music’s most successful acts!
Parmalee makes country music for the modern world. It’s
a contemporary sound with classic ingredients, filled with
larger-than-life pop hooks, southern storytelling, and the
amplified attitude of rock ‘n’ roll. Frontman Matt Thomas
calls it “new country.” Fans around the world just call it
Parmalee, named after their North Carolina hometown.
to country music’s past, but helped shape its present, too.
A multinational, platinum-certified smash of a
collaboration with Trailer Trap creator and The Git Up road but staying at home gave us time to focus on who we
star, Blanco Brown, Just the Way topped the charts in are as a band and create more songs that narrow in on our
2021. The song mixed Parmalee’s sharp songwriting and connection with our fans. We’re leaning into what makes
vocal harmonies – both of which had fueled the band’s first Parmalee sound like Parmalee.”
No. 1 single, Carolina, as well as Top 10 hits like Close Years after Matt, Scott, Barry, and Josh held their first
Your Eyes and Already Callin’ You Mine – with a modern band practice in a tin-roofed barn in rural North Carolina,
message of self-love and individuality. A feel-good hit with Parmalee continues to expand the boundaries of country
more than 300 million streams, Just the Way helped lay the music. They’re southern hitmakers with a multigenre
Years before scoring a multinational No. 1 hit with Just foundation for Parmalee’s newest album, For You. Just the twist, creating songs that are every bit as diverse as the
the Way – the first single from Parmalee’s 2021 album, For Way connected with so many people,” says Matt. “I think music they grew up loving. For You is the latest chapter
You – brothers Matt and Scott Thomas grew up in the small people liked its message, the positivity and the way it made in a story that’s just getting started – and like any good
town of Parmele, N.C. Their father was a working musician, them feel – like it spoke directly to them. That’s when we storyteller, Matt Thomas has learned to turn his personal
and the boys inherited his appreciation for soul, country- feel most authentic and our best as a band – when we feel experience into universal anthems that mirror his fans’
rock, and the sounds of the American south. “Dad’s music like we’re having a conversation with the audience. That’s experiences, too. After all, this isn’t just Parmalee’s story
was a mixture of Gregg Allman, Bob Seger, and Delbert what For You really focuses on. It’s an album for the fans – anymore. It’s our story.
McClinton,” Matt remembers. “We loved that stuff, but the ones who’ve supported us for years, and the new ones
we listened to everything else, too. Blues. Beach music. we’re getting to know every day.”
Motown. Once we began making our own music, it didn’t From the anthemic, arena-friendly rush of Only You
matter what we were trying to play – that country twang just to the rugged romanticism of Take My Name, For You
carried over into everything we did.” For Parmalee, music is country music at its modern-day best. Working with
has always been a family business. Joined by cousin Barry cowriters like Ashley Gorley, Nolan Sipe, and producer
Knox and longtime friend Josh McSwain, the group began David Fanning, Matt Thomas wrote the majority of the 13-
building an audience in North Carolina before moving to song album during a year that found his touring schedule
Nashville. Nominated for the ACM’s “New Vocal Group of brought to a halt by the global pandemic. It was a time
the Year,” they stood out as something different: a tight-knit of regrowth and collaboration. “We didn’t know when
family band whose members played their own instruments, we’d be able to tour again, so we just kept writing and
wrote their own hits, and created songs that didn’t just nod writing,” Matt says. “We’re used to always being on the

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