{"id":54546,"date":"2025-07-10T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/?post_type=product&#038;p=54546"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:48:33","slug":"shoulders-nick-4","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/product\/shoulders-nick-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoulders, Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re: 25-04-2025<\/p>\n<p>With \u2018Home on the Rage,\u2019 Nick Shoulders swaps the raucous, sweat-stained Honkabilly of New Orleans for the rocky solitude of the Ozark up-country. The energy is subdued, but what the record lacks in rowdiness, it makes up for in sheer determination. Recorded during the late summer months of 2020, the album is the first solo\/acoustic attempt by Nick, with limited accompaniment from \u2018Okay Crawdad\u2019 collaborator Grant D\u2019Aubin appearing alongside a showcase of Nick\u2019s multi-instrumental and genre-bending original songs. Alongside the expected pained warbles and indignant yodels are songs about profound isolation, permanent disruption, and the apocalyptic anxiety that marks the album as a product of the red-state COVID-19 zeitgeist. With \u2018Home on the Rage,\u2019 Nick continues his dissection of American traditional music both in form and content. By drawing upon his background in old-time banjo, deep south gospel singing, blues harmonica, and proto-rock &amp; roll one-man-bands, Nick has furnished this sound collage of southern dissent with a variety of influences. Using ancestral singing techniques and archaic instrumentation, Nick crafts songs that address the overwhelming crises of country music: overcommercialization, insincerity, a default to unquestioning patriotism and power worship, and a obsession with \u201cSoutherness\u201d that is primarily concerned with a sort of performative rurality as a measure of authenticity. All the while, offering candid and painful personal journeys into the realms of grief and confusion. Even with its serious subject matter, \u2018Home on the Rage\u2019 remains a moving and uplifting listen. As always, Nick manages to balance his music\u2019s weighty themes with a playful wit, an instinctual musicianship, and a songwriting arch that bends towards hope, for the country and the humanity of its occupants.<\/p>\n<p>Tracklist:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ng-star-inserted\">\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A1 Turn On The Dark<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A2 Rise When The Rooster Crows<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A3 John Brown&#8217;s Nightmare<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A4 Home On The Rage<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A5 Booger County Blues<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">A6 Lockdown Lament<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B1 Miss The Mississippi (And You)<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B2 Don&#8217;t Write This Song<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B3 Empty Yodel No. 2<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B4 Loathsome Whistle<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B5 New Dying Soldier<\/li>\n<li class=\"ng-star-inserted\">B6 Twice As Bright<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home On The Rake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54547,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[768],"product_tag":[2970],"class_list":{"0":"post-54546","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-americana-country-folk-singersongwriters","7":"product_tag-gar-hole-records","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/54546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=54546"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=54546"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vinylgrove.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=54546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}