Devon Gilfillian’s Funky Take on Nashville

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Devon Gilfillian has been putting his own spin on Americana music since moving to Nashville from Philadelphia back in 2013. He pushes the boundaries even further on his forthcoming album Time Will Tell, which he recorded at historic RCA Studio A on Music Row. But, Gilfillian says, this is far from a Music Row-type album. During his visit to the Nashville Now cabin, the singer-guitarist talks about sidestepping the system as an indie artist, how Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music influenced his career, and why things have or haven’t changed for Black artists making their art in Music City. Get to know one of American roots music’s most dynamic voices on this episode of Rolling Stone’s all-things-Nashville podcast. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Rolling Stones Nashville Now.
0:08.0	I'm Joseph Hudak, Senior Music Editor and your host.
0:12.0	Thank you for joining this at the Nashville Now Cabin.
0:15.0	As we like to say, country is here.
0:17.0	Nashville is now, especially in these four walls. Our guest today, he has a new album coming out in June.
0:24.6	It is titled Time Will Tell.
0:26.6	He is the singer, the songwriter, the guitarist, the Nashville resident,
0:31.6	the Philadelphia area native, Devin Gilfillion.
0:35.6	We have a wonderful conversation with him, talk a lot about his career
0:39.1	and about this superb new album. He also performs for us here in the cabin. But first,
0:45.6	it's festival season. Coming up, one of our favorite festivals, director Steve and I went to
0:51.5	the Bourbon and Beyond Festival, the world's largest bourbon food and
0:56.1	music festival in Louisville, Kentucky. We went in 2022, saw Pearl Jam headline. And man, we drank a
1:03.5	lot of good bourbon, saw a lot of good music. It was one of the best weekends of that summer
1:10.2	for me.
1:11.2	I am thrilled to say we'll be going again this year to Bourbon and Beyond the world's largest
1:15.6	bourbon food and music festival, Louisville, Kentucky, September 24th to 27th at the Kentucky
1:22.7	Exposition Center.
1:24.8	The lineup this year is stellar foo fighters, Mumford and Sons, Dave Matthews Band, Queens
1:30.2	of the Stone Age.
1:31.2	Ah, but where is the country you're saying?
1:33.5	Nashville now.
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