CRESCENT Entertainment: The Piedmont Boys’ Greg Payne Opens Up on Stories from the Road and What it Takes to Get Noticed by Nashville

South Carolina is not exactly shabby when it comes to turning out musical acts. Not it’s not. We’ve got a pretty strong history in this state.  Even recently, you look at Hootie, you look at Edwin.  I can remember back in high school watching Edwin play acoustic, sitting on a bar stool out in front […]

CRESCENT Entertainment: The Piedmont Boys’ Greg Payne on the Band’s New Album and Touring Outside of the Bar Circuit

  It’s interesting that you talk about, let’s call it “the process,” from the first record because the second does sound like you really worked hard to refine the songs.  It sounds tighter.  It sounds like you really…you can hear that conscious effort in there. The first album was recorded basically in a bedroom at […]

CRESCENT Entertainment: The Piedmont Boys’ Greg Payne — Minor Leaguer to Outlaw Country Frontman

Over the past several years, The Piedmont Boys played audiences from the East Coast to the West Coast. They’ve opened for Dierks Bentley and Gretchen Wilson. They played at a rally for the South Carolina Energy Forum. They’ve played dive bars, music halls, and everything in between, but for some reason, they still aren’t signed […]