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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:48 am 
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On Wednesday November 7th, WagonWheel Presents… welcomes US singer/songwriter Rod Picott back to Sheffield when he joins us at The Greystones. Hailed by his friend and sometime writing partner Slaid Cleaves as “up there with the best of Springsteen, Steve Earle and Woody Guthrie“, many reviews are claiming most recent album Welding Burns as Rod’s finest work. Support comes from Mat Wale who will be showcasing material from former band The Rackets ahead of the issue of an EP of previously unreleased material. Advance tickets priced at £8 are available from WeGotTickets (http://www.wegottickets.com/event/171023) and from the venue. Entry on the night will be £10. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.


***ROD PICOTT***

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Rod Picott is the songs he sings. Since before Woody Guthrie songwriters have soaked their public image in the sepia tones of the working life but Picott bears the real life scars of living that life. Rod Picott’s songs are inhabited by sheetrock hangers, drinkers, circus hands, boxers and working girls and he sings about his characters with intimacy. Listening to a Rod Picott album you can smell the gasoline on a mechanics hands and the perfume of lovers in dark corners.

The son of a welder and former Marine, Picott grew up in the small mill town of South Berwick, Maine. His father’s record collection spanned Ray Charles to John Philip Sousa and James Brown. His older brother introduced him to the punk poetry of Lou Reed and Patti Smith. The tall, wiry framed Picott worked construction jobs from his high school graduation until the release of his first cd, Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues in 2001.

In the Folk and Americana world Ray Wylie Hubbard, Slaid Cleaves, Fred Eaglesmith have been declared some of the best writers working and they have all recorded songs written or co-written by Rod Picott. Picott’s “Broke Down” released on Rounder Records by co-writer and artist Slaid Cleaves became the most played song on Americana radio and was awarded the song of the year award at the Austin Music Awards. In 2010 “Broke Down” found new life in the soundtrack to the Brian Koppelman written and directed film Solitary Man starring Michael Douglas. In that same year Picott’s song “Circus Girl” was featured in the PBS documentary Circus.

Rod Picott has released five solo cds and one cd with sometimes duo partner Amanda Shires, all to excellent reviews and extensive touring. Picott has been featured in No Depression magazine, on BBC Radio 2 where he has recorded several sessions for Bob Harris, and in Maverick magazine. Picott has produced for Rounder Records, toured as opening act for Alison Krauss and Union Station and played the prestigious Shrewsbury Folk and Maverick festivals in England and the Take Root & Blue Highways Festivals in Holland. The very definition of a modern troubadour Picott tours the U.S. in a Jeep Cherokee with a current odometer reading of 276,300 miles. Picott also tours annually in Europe and the U.K. to the tune of 130 plus shows yearly. Picott is lauded for his narrative and melodic songwriting, passionate delivery and darkly humorous onstage storytelling.

Rod Picott’s 2011 release Welding Burns spent 10 straight weeks on the AMA chart and reached #1 on The FAR Chart. Picott was voted #1 Songwriter of the year #1 Male artist of the year and Welding Burns was voted the #5 CD release of 2011 by the FAR Chart reporters.

quite simply another blue collar classic from Maine’s finest songwriterMaverick Magazine

The songs are both beautiful and disturbing, and are the work of an artist who deserves to be heard. I hope he sells a million copies.Mary Gauthier

the best of the current crop of Americana singer-songwritersAmericana-UK.com

http://www.rodpicott.com


***MAT WALE***

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Mat Wale has been writing, producing and recording with various of his own band projects since 2004. As well as releasing a string of albums and EPs he also produced the ‘Medieval Death Folk’ EP for Mexican Kids At Home which remains to this day their definitive work. In 2008 he toured the US and UK with experimental indie band ‘avanGaad’. In 2009 he provided the soundtrack for Welsh indie film ‘Big Font, Large Spacing’.

Mat formed ‘The Rackets’ in late 2006. The band played neally 200 shows and recorded 4 EP’s together until their demise in late 2009. The band did later reform for occasional shows, and Mat found himself performing solo shows showcasing his country tinged songs of love and heartbreak. In 2012 Mat returned to band duties with new outfit Big Convoy.

http://www.myspace.com/matwale


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:04 am 
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A week today...

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