Sundy Best/Hazard Adams

Kris Bentley and Nick Jamerson, the duo that makes up Sundy Best, have strummed their way through several dynamic albums and plenty of shows in just the past few years alone. They write upbeat, happy, country-twanged music. Producer RS Field has been known to call the guys’ music “Appalachiadelicfolksoulrock’n’roll.” from time to time. That’s an enticing label, and it actually comes off as pretty accurate. On the band’s latest, Salvation City, Bentley and Jamerson stretch their ideas with more of an electric feel, at once evoking the acoustic traditions of their native Kentucky and expanding on those sounds via effects and reverb. (Eric Sandy)