Raleigh Keegan — Appalachian High
A deeply personal album rooted in Appalachian memory, family, and the hard road between where a person begins and where a dream might take them.
Explore the albumIndependent publishing · Nashville, Tennessee
Songs with a soul.
Stories with a spine.
Fouled Anchor Music publishes independent music and Appalachian fiction, then stands behind the artists and dreamers doing work that deserves to travel farther.
17published songs
3books in one connected trilogy
The music catalog
Work we helped put into the world.
Ethan Willis — Three singles
Can’t Call It, See You Next Week, and Set on Summertime: no-frills country storytelling, straight from the source.
Explore the songs3 Chords and a Lie
One Appalachian story. Three books.
The trilogy follows dreamers, musicians, families, and ghosts through ambition, consequence, and the long work of finding the way home.
Book one · Published
Appalachian High: A Dreamer’s Tale
The dreamer leaves the mine and steps onto the stage.
Read about book one
Book two · Published
The Broken Compass
The dream has a cost, and every road eventually asks for payment.
Read about book two
Book three · In development
Devil to Pay
Every demon keeps a ledger that must be balanced.
Follow book threeThe wider circle
Publishing is only one way to show up.
Fouled Anchor Music has not published every artist featured here. We champion each of them materially, emotionally, socially—or simply by being loud about work we believe in.
Meet the artists we champion“Championing, course setting, and cash.” That was the answer that started Fouled Anchor Music.