Rocky Votolato True Devotion

• Lucky Clover Coin
• Fragments
• Red River
• Eyes Like Static
• Sparklers
• Instrument
• What Waited for Me
• Sun Devil
• Don't Be Angry
• Where We Started

Rocky Votolato’s palpability on albums like Suicide Medicine and Makers is what’s always made him stand out among a plethora of alt-country, whiskey-swiggin’ musicians singin’ about whiskey (and other Southern things, like trains) that came before, during, or after him.

It makes sense that on True Devotion, the singer would choose to use the album to tell the story of depression and anxiety that he has suffered from all of his life. Following the release of 2007’s The Brag & Cuss, Votolato shut himself off from the rest of the world, no longer able to write or tour, and barely leaving his apartment (where he surrounded himself with books on philosophy, history, physics, and theology) for more than a year. True Devotion was eventually born of this, recorded mostly acoustic and alone, and mixed with the help of Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens, David Bazan) and John Goodmanson (Blood Brothers, Sleater-Kinney).

Abstract by Leah Urbom