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The glorious sounds of the Torch were forged in the fires of country music and southern culture in the fall of 2006 when Jason Yeary, a talented, band-less songwriter from Kentucky was walking the lonesome roads of Murfreesboro, Tennessee and a flaming hammer burst out of the stratosphere, scraping the September sky.  Angelic whispers and the sound of a wiry, pedal steel guitar accompanied the blazing light through the night.  The heavenly noise pierced his ear like nothing had before and the fiery mess left behind nothing but a trail of smoke that spelled out: “HAMMERTORCH”.  Yeary knew just what to do.

Hammertorch is an explosive country rock band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee .  Since their birth in 2006, the Torch has been burning everything in their path from the premier Nashville venues to hot spots all across the southeast and Midwest .  With their honest, no-holds-barred, blue-collared approach, Hammertorch has consistently proven why they have earned the label of “ Nashville band”: a fierce dedication to music.  They released their debut EP, This Hammer Fell From the Sky, in 2007 and have just released their first full length LP this summer called Lions Don’t Cry.  They are not your run-of-the-mill country band, but rather a volatile, unpredictable vehicle of Southern goodness that is driven by an earnest desire to explore uncharted musical terrains.  Given the ever-narrowing closed-mindedness of high-dollar country music in Music City , they have their sights set on destroying any and all boundaries that have traditionally limited Southern music.  As if the Torch doesn’t already have enough going for them, they also act as backing band for Nashville songstress Caitlin Rose.

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