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Some albums tell a story. Fawn's Enemy, the full-length debut from Maddie Medley, builds a world.
For Maddie, that world is called Fawn's Forest. It's a place where memory, melody, rage, and resilience all share the same landscape. A place whose roads wind through rocky relationships, old habits, and new beginnings. Every path leads back to the same question: what does it mean to fully trust yourself?
Maddie has spent years learning how to ask that question. Raised in Nashville, she watched Fiona Apple headline the Ryman while still a teenager, transfixed by the singer's mix of raw vulnerability and supercharged power. Equally captivating were the songs by Patsy Cline, Gillian Welch, Damien Rice, and Tori Amos that she heard at home. Pouring those influences into her own indie folk music, she signed a major-label record deal at 20 years old — only to leave the label three years later, frustrated with an industry that seemed to champion commerce over craft.
"I needed to discover my identity outside of music," says Maddie, who found herself resettling in Kansas City and building a new life with her partner, Luke Krutzke. "I trained as a yoga teacher. I cleaned saunas. I worked at a grocery store. At first, I didn't play any music; I just let myself process.
"New songs began to emerge during Maddie's quiet period of self-discovery — songs that grappled with some hard truths. "I realized that my default had been to appease whatever and whomever my body perceived as a threat," she says. "I realized I'd been projecting comfort and happiness without actually achieving either. I started the long process of undoing that." Without trying to satisfy anyone else's expectations, Maddie began writing more honestly than ever before. Steadily, Fawn's Enemy took shape.
The album's title nods to the "fawn response": the survival instinct that compels people to accommodate others during times of danger. It's an instinct Maddie knows all too well. To start demystifying and dismantling it, she wrote songs like "Fawn's Rage," "Dawn," and "★ ★ ★" (aka "Dan + Me"), all of them shaped by trauma and anchored in a renewed sense of self-empowerment. These were songs about reclaiming authorship, not only over art, but over Maddie's own life, too. The lyrics made room for characters like Rocky and Whitney — two elderly gay skunks who share a cabin in Fawn's Forest — and Teardrop, an antagonist whose name is an anagram for 'Predator.' Maddie made a physical map of Fawn's Forest, too, filling it with places like the Moon House and Fawn's Castle, dropping in a few Easter eggs for listeners who'd heard her earlier songs. She sketched a picture of Teardrop, then commissioned a puppet to be made. After years of making art full of concessions and compromise, she was finally creating something that was entirely her own — a world that was musical, visual, andeven tactile. "I wasn't looking for any sort of external validation," she says of the creationprocess. "I wrote this for myself. I wrote it because I had to."
Big Guy & The Very Large Men is fronted by Nashville songwriting veteran James Droll who hascarved out a reputation as one of Nashville’s most distinct queer voices. Big Guy represents a newfound creative outlet for James highlighted by amplified expression and having the audacity to say the quiet part out loud. As a songwriter, his pen has been behind tracks now streamed well over 180 million times including Vintage Culture’s breakout song “Pour Over” (85M+), gavn’s “Hit the Dirt” (21M+), and Joy Oladokun’s collaborative anthem “We’re All Gonna Die” featuring Noah Kahan (20M+).
Big Guy & The Very Large Men gives James the platform to express the beauty, the danger, and the mess that comes with living an openly queer lifestyle in the epicenter of the bible belt. Having grown up in Pleasantville, Ohio on a llama farm and his family being deeply rooted in the evangelical church, it has been a journey to get to a place where Big Guy could even exist. Big Guy & The Very Large Men’s debut EP titled ‘soft hands, hard times’, released June of this year featuring renowned artists Fancy Hagood, Maddie Medley, and swim team (Bridey Costello and Daphne Browdy).
2026 has proved to be an incredible year for Big Guy. Kicking off the year by being featured in the Spotify Glow program alongside 3 other queer Nashville artists and songwriters... Joy Oladokun, Medium Build, and Shane Stevens. Then debuting Big Guy & The Very Large Men live in April at Nashville’s 5 spot, alongside the release of their debut single “COWBOY BOOTS” featuring Fancy Hagood. They were then offered a once month residency from July - October at the 5 spot that is still going on featuring support from She Returns From War, BODHI, and more. Their second show as Big Guy was a 5pm slot at the How Stage at Bonnaroo 2026. They have since been featured in FLOOD, Ones to Watch, Under the Radar, Atwood Magazine, and more. They were ACME Radio’s featured artist of the month in June that included a beautiful live session and having James dj on air. They will be debuting at Americana Fest this year at ACME’s FamJam!