Nick Shoulders w/ Dylan Earl

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  Nick Shoulders

  All Bad, the latest album from Nick Shoulders, ultimately encapsulates everything that makes Shoulders’ inimitable form of country music so vital: a heady balance of dazzling musicianship and punk defiance, coupled with gritty eccentricity and a generational connection to the roots of the genre. With a singing style inherited from his family’s vocal lineage, Nick’s songs achieve the rare feat of imparting difficult truths while inciting a certain joyful abandon, balancing a sound forged by years of hard travel with a heartfelt reverence for the origins of country music. In the spirit of Hazel Dickens and Jimmy Driftwood, the incisive yet wildly jubilant All Badvocally objects to the reckless destruction of the natural landscape and development run rampant, while still offering plenty of joy and dance-ready rhythms. Spanning a variety of early country styles, the album’s infectious harmonies shine alongside everything from jangling cajun waltzes to surf-rock infused bluesy ballads–all tied together by a voice seemingly out of place in this century, yet ever ready to speak up about its problems.

• Dylan Earl

  Dylan Earl is a post-country/countrypolitan/twangcore songwriter hailing from the Ozarks in Arkansas. After driving numerous projects through basements, punk houses and dives in his late teens and early 20’s, he released his first solo EP in August 2015 titled "Blessing In Disguise" It was produced by Daniel Romano in Ridgeville, Ontario. A full-length studio album "New Country To Be" was released September '17 recorded at East Hall Recording in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas. The second full-length pedal steel drenched concept LP “Squirrel in the Garden” came out in the US on August ‘19 on his own independent label, Fabulon Records. Rootsy Music released it in Europe. A 4th LP “I Saw the Arkansas” came out March 10, ‘23 on Gar Hole Records. This past year consisted of shows ranging from Los Angeles, CA to Stockholm, Sweden and many more stops across North America and Europe with his band the Reasons Why.