The War and Treaty's band members, husband-and-wife duo Tanya and Michael Trotter, on Jelly Roll, their best new artist Grammys nomination and more.
Music Association Awards or Newport Jazz festivalgoers, precedent suggests just about everyone in any given audience will be on their feet by the time the husband-and-wife act finish one of their explosive, emotive, genre-bending and deeply spiritual sets.
Groundbreaker has continued broadening the genre with riveting and endless exuberance — even if country radio has yet to catch on.Both Michael, 42, and Tanya, 50, started singing in church before they hit double digits; Michael has a video of himself singing “If Anybody Asks You Who I Am” standing on the congregation’s organ bench at just 3 years old.
That off-the-cuff duet in 2014 opened their eyes to a world of musical possibilities, but their path forward wasn’t easy or clear-cut. Michael still struggles with PTSD — at times so severely that he has said he contemplated suicide — and the couple also faced homelessness. Musically, they first found a home in Americana: In 2018, Thirty Tigers distributed their second album,, which featured a collaboration with Emmylou Harris, and they have won three Americana Music Awards.
Michael and Tanya are relentlessly positive, but they won’t ignore the obvious. “How about Mickey Guyton?” Michael says. “It all begins with her saying, ‘This is what country music looks like, too.’ ” With Beyoncé’sshining a new spotlight on country music’s long history of racial exclusion, the duo readily acknowledges the work that remains to correct that past. “Have we experienced it?” Tanya asks. “Of course we have. Do we see it in the crowds? Of course we do.
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