Dougie Poole

Brooklyn's Dougie Poole puts his eccentric stamp on country music, melding eerie D.I.Y. bedroom pop textures with a love for classic honky tonk and lonesome, earthy songwriting. His self-released, home-recorded debut, Wideass Highway, earned him a contract with Wharf Cat Records, which issued his more expansive follow-up, The Freelancer's Blues, in 2020. Poole continued to build a national fan base with 2023's The Rainbow Wheel of Death, a reflective and deeply textured album inspired by the global pandemic. A live album, At Tubby's, appeared in 2025.