When Johnnie Cash went to play at Folsom Prison, he was told not to sing any songs about killing or drugging or any thing to remind these men that they were in jail. His response was something like Yeah, cause they don't know! And for a couple of hours these men felt good. Not because someone helped them to forget but because someone empathized with them. They swore this man understood them and no one else did. He was the first country artist to really explore the potential of the concept album; he was the first country artist to truly embrace the lyrical freedoms and the political agenda of then-contemporary folk singers of the time and didn't really much give a damned on how he was perceived or what his life looked like to you or me.
When I think of songs that I have fallen in love with, their real songs like "Goddamn Lonely Love", by the Drive by Truckers, from their album "the Dirty South." (And Lord, if that song ain't near perfect) It would not be the same if they were "Yeah, bitch, I like the way you" or "Dance, Dance, Dance, Life is a Disco" I just don't get into that stuff.
I have been known to have conversations with the unconversable, hold children with lice at homeless shelters, sit and eat with people that some people don't want to sit and eat with. I'm not afraid to get too drunk, love too deeply, or experience the edge. If you run from shit, it will inevitably bight you in the ass hard. Very, very hard.
Johnny would of never got June if he was a wishy-washy wimpy m-n-f-er.
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As with her more recognizable visual artistic creations, the music of Christine Cozza is an examination, in stark contrast, of the light and dark sides of human emotion. A Siren's call to our inner demons, Cozza's songs vary in perspective from morose introspection to playful antagonism, but frequently recall a challenge to sit very closely with, even embrace, our most disturbing selves.
A lifelong and natural poet, Cozza's guitar work is unassuming - her vocal stylings are distinguished by simplicity and accessibility. The effect is an 'unobstructed view' of the dynamic at play, between strength and vulnerability that rumble for territory in the bared-wide soul of the songwriter. While pride in femininity is evident, Cozza's sound has a broad and androgynous appeal that escapes many of the similarly cathartic
and emotional singers of the folk and alt-country genres, to which she draws comparison.
With words and music, Cozza deftly and fearlessly manipulates the sensations attendant to self-scrutinization. Confronting the unspeakable, inviting the awkward and wrestling complacency and denial from their nests, to be viewed in full daylight, all seem the means to a kinder end… one of facilitating collective-improvement through self-awareness, forgiveness and love for even the lowliest among us.
-Casey Scott, Highway Key
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