Friends of Lola (FOL) (named after a neighbor's dog), is an 8piece country band out of Nashville, TN. Front members/writers include (siblings) Houston and Cyrene Wages, originally from Memphis, and Tennessee transplant, Gabe Rabben of Laguna Beach, California. Pre FOL, Houston was living in Los Angeles working as an actor, Cyrena was in Nashville attending Belmont University, and Gabe was based out of Nashville, touring as the drummer for Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. When the three landed in the same place for a night in Memphis, with no intention of becoming a band, they wrote their first song in ten minutes. Houston immediately left California and joined the other two in Nashville in 2013, thus the birth of the band.

After a stint of touring, writing, and recording various projects in town with some of Nashville’s elite, Marshall Altman, Vance Powell, and Chad Brown, the band is slated to release new music in 2016. Where West Coast country meets South East grit, core influences include The Band, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, and Hank Williams. FOL was the only country band to make it on the top 3 list for the Nashville Scene’s “Best Local Band 2015,” and they scored their first movie placement with the art song “Kissed Me Like Thunder” in the 2015’ picture “A Walk in the Woods” starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Their live show on The Source:LIVE, filmed at the GreenBrier Whiskey Distillery in Nashville, launched into some memorable, and yes, whiskey infused jams with soaring vocals and sweet pedal steel guitar reminiscent of the Marshall Tucker Band, Pure Prairie League and Little Big Town.

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