The sound of Galax: Wild Ponies stampede onto the Treehouse stage

We’ll always be the pinball that bounces between folk, rock and roll, and country.”

That’s Telisha Williams, half of the Virginia folk duo Wild Ponies, talking about the pair’s sound stylings. Of their latest album, “Galax,” she said, “It only took us a couple of days to record it, but this is the album we’ve been making our whole lives.”

Although they’re based in Nashville, Wild Ponies have always looked to Southwest Virginia — where bandmates Doug and Telisha Williams were both born and raised — for inspiration. There, in mountain towns like the titular Galax, old-time American music continues to thrive, supported by a community of fiddlers, flat-pickers and fans.

The pair pay tribute to that powerful music and rugged landscape on the album, released in 2017, a stripped-back album that nods to the band’s history while still pushing forward. And they will bring that boundary-pushing sound to the Treehouse Café for a special one-night-only, 21-and-older concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30.

Reserved seats are $15 each; visit www.treehousebainbridge.com to learn more.

Doug and Telisha took some of their favorite musicians from Nashville (Fats Kaplin, Will Kimbrough, Neilson Hubbard and Audrey Spillman) and met up with revered players from Galax (Snake Smith, Kyle Dean Smith, and Kilby Spencer) and recorded the album in the shed behind Doug’s old family farm in the Appalachians (steps away from the site where Doug and Telisha were married).

The result is a broad, bold approach to Appalachian music, created by a multi-cultural band whose members span several generations. Wild Ponies proudly dive into their old-school influences with songs like “Pretty Bird” especially, a rendition of the Hazel Dickens original — and the traditional mountain song “Sally Anne.”

“My grandfather used to say, it oughta been the goddamn National Anthem,” Doug said of the later, which kicks off the album with gang vocals and fiddle.

“Galax” boasts contemporary material too, however, and lyrics that reflect a similar mix of old and new, with Doug and Telisha writing songs inspired by family heirlooms (including a wooden-bound, 70-year-old book of poems written by Doug’s grandfather, whose lines form the basis of “Here With Me”), the Catawba tree on the farm, the nostalgic pull of one’s birthplace, a mother’s tough lough, leaving and believing, and the cyclical natures of death and love.

“We didn’t want to go home to Virginia and just make an old-time record,” Doug said.

“We wanted to make something that still sounded like Wild Ponies. We asked everybody to stretch and reach towards something new, something different. We wanted to not only reconnect with our roots, but learn how those roots can also weave into our current world.”

To learn more about the band, visit www.wildponies.net.