Full Name: blossominbonebooking@gmail.com

Thanks for your time. So, tell us in what part of the First Coast you reside now and how long you have lived there?

Parts of the band are scattered as far down as Holly Hill in Daytona Beach & as far north as Nahunta, Georgia. We started writing music & busking while living in Brunswick, Georgia, at The Connex Jax. We have been primarily based in Brantley County, Georgia, since December 2022. The town of Nahunta, to be more specific. So going on 3 years this December in Nahunta.

When did you know you had an interest in music?

We were meeting some friends at the Pecan Park Flea Market when Bobby “forgot his wallet” at home & needed gas. We sat on our back bumper and passed a guitar back and forth for a half dozen songs to make up the gas money before Bobby admitted he just wanted to play some music with Ryni. We split tips & blew it all on flea market knick-knacks after figuring it’d be fun to play together again going forward. 

Did you start with any specific instrument and migrate to other instruments?

We only had a guitar in the trunk when we sat on the back bumper that day. Once we made it home, we began to work on adding a banjo to the songs & attempting to sing together before making our way to busk the Saint Simons Pier. 

Are you currently in a band (or bands)?

Ryni is in a band with the gals of Bone, which they call Highway Bouquet. Amanda, the washboard player, is in a band with her partner called Rootnest Ramblers. Holly, the upright bass player, primarily plays with Bone & Highway, but was recently featured as upright accompaniment on our friend’s album “Just Call Me Jangle” on Valholler Records. Bobby is a solo performer by the name of Hollering Bob, often accompanied by several variations of friends forming the side project called Moonlight Holler. He also plays gutbucket for a band called Twig & Leaf. 

Who is your favorite musician, or what musician influenced you the most?

For the whole band, two artists we can agree on for being our favorite is Rambler Kane & Clayton Nile Young.

Ryni loves Sierra Ferrell & Holy Locust, as well as Hellbound Howlers, Resonant Rogues, Dylan Tietze, Pine Box Dwellers, Uncle Dave & Ponch Bueller.

Bobby doesn’t listen to much music, but when he does, it’s probably Matt Rivers, Yes Ma’am, Goolagoon, Spazz, Grid Pickers or the bluegrass station shuffle on Pandora Radio.

Amanda has been going on & on about Bosko Baker, while her personal favorites are John Prine & Isaac Brock.

Holly is often blasting SunRiver if not Kane or Young, which is just surface-level and not encompassing the huge variety of genres and artists she digs. 

Are there any specific memories or highlights of your career that you would like to tell us about?

Little Matt from Yes Ma’am once hacked Flail Records and told the kind folks at Muddy Roots music festival to book us. They put us on the main stage and invited us back the following year before we made it our way back home.

Aside from that, every year in February, we have a musical award ceremony in Glynn County, Georgia. The Golden Isle Music Awards is put on by the folks at Palm Coast Open Mic and Ashley Emberr. The year before last, we won best live performance with a video of us playing our original song Take the Gold on the streets of Avondale. This last year, we won album of the year as well as song of the year for our album Crossroads, which is available on cassette only through Do It Now shirts & tapes, and our song Free, which Ryni wrote after experiencing some hassle trying to busk down in Atlantic Beach. We put out the song free on a 7-inch lathe cut record with Rats ass records in April 2024.

What area bands or musicians are at the top of your list to go out to hear?

If I understand your question, you’re asking what bands are in our area that we like to go see.

The Pine Box Dwellers ALWAYS put on a good show. We’re actually putting out a 7” lathe cut split with them this year.

To name a few more, Violet Mourning, because Megan’s pipes are out of this world. Elyse Berlin will take ya to church. Mudtown always gets us dancing. Randy or 1blackfrend will give ya the need for more.

There are so many people that we love to see, but we’d spend more time talking about them than anything else. 

Do you have a favorite venue that you enjoy playing locally?

While Murphy’s Tavern was the first to ask us not to play outside rather than coming in, because their paying customers weren’t at the bar buying drinks… Tipsy McSways was the first to bring us in from a busk, put us on stage, tell everyone to pay attention or tip & encourage us to do our thing. Susan is by far the best. Mallery Street Cafe is our go-to for any traveling acts & anytime we wanna get down. Small parlor environment, dim lights and good spirits. Great coffee. Brewhound was always a goal of ours, not just because of the vibes but because the crowd was usually four-legged and adorable. Hootenanny’s may take the win here. They have shown us so much love & support. Had to find out through out-of-town relatives visiting on vacation that they put us on a dang ole billboard. We’d throw The Connex Jax in here with a well-worded reason, but if you know, you know. We’re paid to bump John Long’s open-door policy because we live there part-time & help organize nearly half the events with help from Jolene in Pepper Blossom. 

Do you have any gigs coming up to tell our readers about?

We say it a lot, but save the date. New Year’s Eve. With 2025 kicking our butts in the realm of family deaths, social climates & just a blind direction into what 2026 could do to get better or get worse, we have a stacked lineup at The Connex Jax. Three touring acts, possibly a fourth being added. Three local supporting acts.

Yes ma’am, Ponch Bueller, Ramblin’ Ricky Tate, Pepper Blossom, Rambler Kane, Twig & Leaf. Looking to possibly add Little Foot as another traveling act but haven’t confirmed dates line up yet.

After the show, we’ll embark on a 0.75-mile community bicycle ride to the riverfront on Cherry Street to watch fireworks. 

What is the best way for musicians to network?

We can’t honestly say that we know what’s working best for everyone out here. For us we have a lot of stage fright. Personal connections, actually meeting people face to face off stage without hiding behind our instruments, is the best way we’ve been able to network. I mean, I get it, nowadays you don’t want a stranger hitting you up on the internet asking for money. While we would never do that, part of our roots is being street performers. Just us on the street being genuine, and eventually someone would dig it. If not, they’d meander forth.

Our first time outta town, we had a venue apologize for giving us the cold shoulder online. They explained how they didn’t want bums in their establishment, taking up time on stage. Happy to receive their apology, we noted that even if we were still viewed as bums, we hoped he would’ve still had fun & that we certainly wouldn’t have had any less fun.

Are there any local venue owners/managers that you would like to rave about?

Lance Junior at Mallery Street is the homie. He’s always cracking jokes about our set or the listeners & their reaction to our performance after the set. Got visibly pale when we booked Yes Ma’am there last year & always tries to have a place for traveling artists that we know.

Cara from Blue Jay Listening Room made our dreams come true by having a sold out, attentive crowd for the release of our first 7” lathe cut. We’re not alone in this experience either. So many artists from all around know the magic that takes place there, and we’re all beyond blessed to be part of it. 

If you had a question you would like to ask another musician, what would it be?

Dad?

Personal hobbies or interests? Family?

Ryni is a coastal ecologist & loves birds, and any land-dwelling critter. She’s got a sister named Little Bit up in Maine with her husband & their two sons. With two brothers just across the property line here in Brantley, another brother just across town & a little sister we took guardianship of when mama passed in 2024. Mama also unofficially adopted several black sheep across the Brantley County area in the past two decades, so Ryni’s got a lot of chosen family too.

Bobby likes trains, riding bikes & camping. He’s got an older brother Jim & a sister-in-law Gigi. There are too many nieces and nephews to count, but to name a few Jess, Emma, Kookoo, Britbrit, JC, Leelee, Sammy. Some of those youngins got little ones too now, so Bobby’s a great uncle.

Amanda takes her cast-net to every show & loves dancing to live music. She and her partner Samson have a little one & a sister who lives in Jax.

Holly enjoys fishing, gardening & lives for any glimpse of live music.  She’s got four little ones & being their mom is her biggest passion.

What’s the future look like? Anything you’re looking forward to?

This year, we’ve been focusing on putting out seven-inch lathe cut splits with different songwriters in the region, with support from Rats Ass Records. We’ve got two more seven-inch records coming out before the end of the year, one with The Pine Box Dwellers and another with Swamp Rats.  The two seven-inch records that we put out already were with Between The Backwoods & Rambler Kane.

We are set to put out all splits, along with an unreleased song on one single EP that’ll be available on CD, with the support of Snake Piss Records in December. That EP will be called Immortalized & there will be a new shirt design as well to go along with the new EP’s artwork.

As far as 2026 goes, we are very excited to put out a 12-inch vinyl record, with support from Snake Piss. We’ve been talking about taking three of the eleven songs from the 12-inch and putting them out as singles throughout the year as well. Putting them out as splits with other homies like Pepper Blossom, Twig & Leaf and Ramblin’ Ricky Tate. Aside from the vinyl, we are hoping to take a weekend run with Rambler Kane and have been talking about a short run with The Pentagram String Band and Little Foot. We’re ultimately looking at what September looks like, making it to Muddy Roots while also having time off from work to perform in Winfield, KS at the Walnut Valley Festival.

The long-term aim is for the Pacific Northwest. Getting our little sister through high school and saving what we can for when the time comes. We just got ourselves a new band van named Charlie Vaniels & have a lot of plans on building it out before taking it on long hauls. 

What’s the best thing for you about living on the First Coast?

We found out real quick when busking our way to Oregon that we are coastal babies. Whether it’s a creek shore or the ocean shore — we’re all about it. 

Where and how can folks learn more about you and/or your band? Links to your website?

Anytime you see us, we normally have 20+ free CDs available. On the CD, you’ll find our personal favorite songs that have recently been released & a label with our name / QR code on it. The QR code takes ya to https://allmylinks.com/blossominbonemusic where you can find anything you’d like to learn about us.

Matter of fact, send us the finished publication of this interview. We’ll put it on our list of links in case people wanna read about us! 

Is there anything else that you want to tell everyone reading this?

Don’t give up on your dreams. We can do anything as long as we believe. Failure may be part of the process, but trying again is what’s most important. We’re all in this together. Love yourself & love others.