The Roadhouse Band is a relatively new entity, but Ryan Davis has been at this forever. The Louisville-area singer-songwriter spent over a decade making “punked-up country gunk” with State Champion, a band he formed with close friends, born out of youthful abandon. In 2007, to release State Champion’s earliest music, he launched the record label Sophomore Lounge, which has built up a fascinating, diverse catalog — “everything from Chicago footwork records to noise rock records to folk records,” he explains on a video chat from the front porch of his father’s countryside Kentucky home.
