Tensas - Press Kit

General Details

Band or Solo-Electric
Location: Colorado, USA
Genre(s): Folk, Rock, Roots, Songwriter
Artist name pronounced [ten-saw]
www.TensasMusic.com

Booking & Management
management@TheTallTale.com
The Tall Tale Agency LLC
**Currently booking Tensas as a Band or Solo-electric

Record Label
Tall Tale Records
info@TallTaleRecords.com

Official Artist Profiles
Spotify / iTunes / Bandcamp / Youtube
Instagram / Facebook

Recent Performances
The Analogue (record store)
Down in Denver Festival
Lions Lair
Roxy on Broadway
Black Rose Acoustic Society
& more!

Tensas Artist Bio

Tensas is a grungy roots and folk rock songwriter that delivers an energetic performance of unique and original tales of bitter loss and hollow victory that will incite and stir dark feelings within you!

Hence why The Indy magazine labeled his music “Rocky Mountain Gothic” in a recent cover issue, while The Gazette defined his songs The Sickness and Lovely Bones as “two musical anthem’s of 2020 and all that it brought” in a featured music story in their Pulitzer prize winning news publication. This Colorado based musician has called the mountains of the Pikes Peak region "home" for over a decade. His act name Tensas [ten-saw] derives from the 250 mile long Tensas River that he grew up along in the bottom-lands of Louisiana.

To-date, his most popular song is one that he wrote in the spring of 2020, titled The Sickness, which is a rocking acoustic dark folk tune and the title track that he self-recorded and was influenced by the pandemic that he released on his debut EP early that year. His first full-band album is titled "Let the River Speak" and it is the funeral procession you didn’t know you needed! This collection of 11 grungy folk-rock tales will carry you down a dark river that flows with internal pain, love, war and death.

Discography

Let the River Speak (Album) - 12/18/2022
Luang Prabang (Single) - 08/21/2022
Lovely Bones (Single) - 05/13/2021
The Sickness (EP) - 05/05/2020
Profile (Demo) - 12/17/2017
Mary Jane's Last Dance (Single) - 10/31/2010

Latest Press Release

Tensas' New Album is the Funeral Procession You Didn't Know You Needed
This collection of 11 grungy folk-rock tales will carry you down a dark river that flows with internal pain, love, war and death...

View Album Press Release

Recent Press Coverage

CS Indy Magazine
Rocky Mountain Gothic - Cover Story
Local Singer-Songwriter Tensas on Race, Religion and The Sickness
Read the story here
The Gazette
Colorado musician was one of the first to write about the pandemic, and he has more to say
Read featured article
Denver Voyage Magazine
Hidden Gems: Meet Derwood (Tensas) Willhite of Tall Tale Records
Read the article now
303 Magazine
New Colorado Music You Should Know, June Edition
See the article now