The members of Judah & the Lion met a little over five years ago while studying at Belmont University in Nashville. Though they wanted to play music together, the band’s banjo player, Nate Zuercher, says that finding a style that would represent the musical tastes of all four members was an early challenge. “I was a punk rock metalhead kid from Colorado that also liked bluegrass,” he says. Vocalist and guitarist Judah Akers was influenced by church music and singer-songwriters, and