Okay, Crawdad

Description

Wielding an ethereal croon and a masterful whistle born from a past life spent chasing lizards through the Ozark hills, Nick Shoulders is a living link to the roots of country music with a penchant for the absurd. Combining the deep ties of his family with traditional regional singing and his years playing on crowded street corners, Nick has sought to forge a hybrid form of rough and intelligent country music; born from forgotten Rocky Hollers and raised to confront the tensions of the 21st-century South. As evidenced by his surreal album covers and anachronistic writing, Nick's creative output is rooted in the complicated history of his beloved rural Arkansas home, yet designed as a conscious rebuke of country music's blind allegiance to historical seats of power and repression. With a kind word and a wicked yodel, Nick hopes to put the "Try" in country.