Tina & Her Pony is an American indie folk music project based in Asheville, North Carolina, United States, consisting of Tina Collins and rotating band members, who began making music together in early 2009..[1] They spent two years in the high desert mountain town of Taos, New Mexico making music and friends.
[4] They released their first full-length album in March 2012, which was mixed and mastered in Oakland, California, with Myles Boisen (The Tiger Lillies, Kronos Quartet) and features the trumpeter Chris Grady (also featured on Tom Waits’ Mule Variations).
They also released a six-track EP titled Walkin’ in My Sleep at the same time.
[7] As a classically trained musician,[4] Collins is known for her tight, sweet, smooth vocals and simple, exposed, crafted instrumentation on tenor banjo, tenor ukulele and guitar.
[1] The music draws inspiration from both Appalachia and the high desert, in addition to "bluegrass and old-time melodies that have been sung by generations of women before".
[9] Tina and Her Pony is contributing a unique sound to the American folk tradition.