Rod Picott is a Nashville-based singer songwriter who believes in telling it like it is even when this presents him more as a wreck than a winner. Fortune is a record that says 'This is who I am, warts and all'.
It is his seventh solo release and was recorded in just a week and a half with the aim of replicating an authentic live sound unadorned by studio trickery.
Most of the twelve tracks are inward looking and reflective with self explanatory titles like This World Is A Dangerous Place and I Was Not Worth Your Love.
Exceptions are Jeremiah, the story of a soldier and "a good man" who doesn't come back from Iraq and Uncle John, an everyday tale of family dysfunction ("he's in the woods where he belongs").
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Picott's view of the world as being shaped by a Drunken Barber's Hand illustrates that he's a half emptiest at heart.
Viewing life without any rose-tinted filter means that his songs are not pretty but they impress by the raw honesty of the writing and the directness of the delivery.
Rod Picott's website
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