While country-inspired singer-songwriters are never in short supply, Seattle's Rocky Votolato stands apart. After dedicating a grueling year and a half to writing and recording his Barsuk Records debut, Makers , the twenty-eight-year-old father of two -- backed by little more than an acoustic guitar and the occasional harmonica -- has produced an album full of songs that reflect his gift for understatement.
"I'm trying, in my life, to boil things down to the simplest thing," says Votolato, "because a lot of times that ends up being less stressful...
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