Oct 7 – Rod Picott (USA) + support

We are really pleased to announce the return of the acclaimed American Singer-songwriter Rod Picott.

Rod Picott was born in New Hampshire, raised in Maine and has lived in Nashville Tennessee for twenty-five years.He has released thirteen albums over the last twenty years and at the age of fifty-seven his engine is still running strong. Picott has had songs placed in television and film projects including The FX series Justified and the Michael Douglas film Solitary Man. His song “Circus Girl” was featured in the PBS documentary Circus.Rod has toured as the opening act for Alison Krauss & Union Station and won the song of the year award at The Austin Music Awards for his song “Broke Down” co-written with Slaid Cleaves. Picott’s latest release is a double cd titled Wood, Steal Dust & Dreams featuring the twenty-three songs co-written with Slaid Cleaves over the last thirty years.

“Rod Picott is one of our too-little-known songwriting treasures. Like Hemingway, he peers into the jangly tentativeness of the relationships between men and women. Like Harry Crews, he captures the spectral gothic shadows that haunt rural settings. Like Townes Van Zandt, Picott tells riveting tales about memorable characters — the moonshiner, Sonny Liston, his daddy — that plumb the misery and the fleeting moments of hope that mark the human condition.”
– Henry Carrigan, No Depression

“A truly brilliant example of skill and savvy” – Lee Zimmerman, The Alternate Root

“Picott has loyal fans behind him, loyal from hearing decades of his sincere, classy songwriting. But I would like to announce to them all that this album is not “just another Rod Picott album.” Yes it has the same depth of talented songwriting you’ve come to expect, yes it still taps into the core of human angst, and yes it is full of grizzled and raw characters.”
– Melissa Clarke, Americana Highways