Madden Metcalf

Twenty-year-old country artist Madden Metcalf comes from Panacea, Florida — a part of the country locals call the Forgotten Coast — a fishing town with fewer than a thousand residents, where his family has lived for four generations. His childhood was split between early mornings on the crab boat and afternoons working shifts at his family friend’s restaurant, Tropical Trader. By the time he was fourteen, he was juggling both, hauling in traps by day and washing dishes by night. Those rhythms of small-town grit, family tradition, and Gulf Coast living are the foundation of his music.