Rocky Votolato is an artist based in Seattle via small town Texas that plays music firmly planted in country folk and indie rock. I have been listening to his album "Suicide Medicine" for the past short while and the best way to describe it is Son Volt with a completely different voice out front. There are a few political songs on the album that are EMBARRASSINGLY bad but that is probably easy to imagine when you read the list of influences on his myspace page. It reads like a who's who of influences for self-important, over emoting 25 year olds. Luckily, Votolato is not any of that. When he wants to be more introspective (read: folky), he knocks it out of the park. If nothing else, Votolato is playing with his heart on his sleeve throughout the album and there is nothing wrong with that.
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