Rod Picott – Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail (2014)
Rod Picott – Hang Your Hopes On A Crooked Nail (2014)
Alt Country, Singer-Songwriter | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:39:12 | 103 MB + 3% Recovery
Label: Welding Rod Records | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2014
Alt Country, Singer-Songwriter | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:39:12 | 103 MB + 3% Recovery
Label: Welding Rod Records | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2014
Some songwriters adopt a blue-collar persona. For Picott, a former sheetrock worker, it’s an honest voice. After growing up in Maine with chum Slaid Cleaves (with whom he penned the title track to Slaid’s 2000 CD Broke Down), Picott too has moved to Austin. There’s no regionalism in his writing – just working- class issues. Picott’s characters dream of a way out of a dead-end life in a small-minded small town. Depending on how you interpret one line, there’s arson amid the fantasy of heading “where no one knows my name” if only he can come up with the guts and gasoline. Long ago in “All Along the Watchtower” Bob Dylan wrote, “’There must be some way out of here,’ said the joker to the thief.” Picott’s characters are neither jokers nor thieves, but they seek the same.
TRACKLIST
01. You're Not Missing Anything
02. Bluebonnet
03. Dreams
04. 65 Falcon
05. I Might Be Broken Now
06. Where No One Knoews My Name
07. Mobile Home
08. Memory
09. All The Broken Parts
10. Milkweed
11. Nobody Knows