J Roddy Walston & The Business were last on World Cafe in 2013 with the album Essential Tremors. A lot has changed since then. After living in Cleveland, Tennessee and Baltimore, J. Roddy has settled ...

Onstage — his hair whipping like a battlefield banner, his piano splintering, his gnarled voice bellowing and his band crushing out something like rock, something like the blues — J. Roddy Walston is ...

A frenzied thrust of guitar, piano and raw vocal croons have emerged from J. Roddy Walston & The Business by way of "Heavy Bells", the first track to be released from their upcoming album Essential ...

Being on tour with an upstart rock band carries some risks. "Sometimes you wake up covered in cats," said J. Roddy Walston, the piano-playing lead singer of J. Roddy Walston and the Business, on the ...

All has been quiet from the J Roddy Walston and the Business for years, but that changes today. The Richmond rockers have unveiled their first single since 2013’s Essential Tremors. While a release ...

Listen to J. Roddy Walston & the Business' new song "The Wanting" off their forthcoming album. By Sadie Bell It’s been four years since we’ve heard anything new from Richmond, Virginia rock band J.

In this very much down-home video, Trent and Hearst take the lead on Walston’s song – him on acoustic guitar, her playing a small drum kit – while the songwriter accompanies them on a portable ...

Beneath the humor-tinged lyrics, J. Roddy Walston and The Business crack down on what it means to survive in this world. After leaving Tennessee, J. Roddy and his band The Business landed in Baltimore ...