Magnolia is anything but your typical country act. Energy, excitement, and non-stop exuberance are not something you necessarily think about when thinking of a female country duet but it’s something that Magnolia pulls off every night on stage. Tristan McKay on lead vocals dives into the music with reckless abandon while Nicole Lea on bass and lead vocals lays down the groove and steers the audience wherever she wants to take them.

Fall Down Seven, Magnolia’s first album release, leads listeners on a journey through Alabama-style sing-a-longs, down the Mississippi swamp country straight to the heart of good old-fashioned southern rock and roll. Some find it hard to imagine coming from a female-fronted, two lead guitars and drums powerhouse quintet. But once you see them live it all starts to make perfect sense.

Playing clubs, weddings and honkytonks across the Southeast and paying their dues for more than five years led the girls of Magnolia to a crossing point in their career. "We were saying we’ve pai