Years active 2011 (2011)–present Website judahandthelion.com | Labels Independent | |
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Origin Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Genres Americana
bluegrass
folk
rock
alternative Members Judah Akers
Brian Macdonald
Nate Zuercher
Spencer Cross Albums Folk Hop N' Roll, Kids These Days, Folk Hop N' Roll (Deluxe), First Fruits, Sweet Tennessee Profiles | ||
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Judah & the Lion is an American alternative band from Nashville, Tennessee that started in 2011. Their latest release is Folk Hop 'N Roll (2016). The band is made up of Judah Akers, Brian Macdonald, Nate Zuercher, and Spencer Cross.
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Judah & the Lion released Sweet Tennessee on April 16, 2013, and it charted on the Billboard charts on May 4, 2013. The placements were at No. 2 on the Bluegrass Albums, No. 9 on the Heatseekers Albums and at No. 15 on the Folk Albums.
Judah & the Lion released their debut full-length studio album Kids These Days on September 9, 2014, where it entered BILLBOARD’s Heatseekers chart at #2 and the Folk Albums chart at #4 its first week out. The album garnered the #1 spot for Heatseekers in both the South Atlantic and South Central regions and the #4 spot for Heatseekers in East North Central, Mountain and West North Central regions. In addition, Kids These Days entered several other Billboard charts and their song "Kickin' da Leaves" off the new album clocked in more than one hundred thousand streams since the September 9th release and made Spotify’s VIRAL 50 Chart alongside Meghan Trainor, Fall Out Boy, Betty Who, Karen O among others.
The band released their latest album, Folk Hop 'N Roll, on March 4, 2016. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart, number 7 on the Billboard Americana/Folk Albums chart, and number 17 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart.
In December 2016/January 2017, Judah & the Lion's hit single, "Take It All Back 2.0", reached the #1 spot on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart for three consecutive weeks.
The band has toured nationally and are currently on tour with Twenty One Pilots' Emotional Roadshow tour from January to March, 2017, and then headed on a US headline tour directly afterwards.
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Songs
Take It All BackFolk Hop N' Roll · 2016
Take It All Back 202016
Rich KidsKids These Days · 2014