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Artist Presale: Tuesday, June 13 @ 10am Spotify Presale: Tuesday, June 13 @ noonThe American south isnt just Brent Cobbs home. Its his muse, too. A Georgia native, he fills his Grammy-nominated songwriting with the sounds and stories of an area thats been home to southern rockers, soul singers, country legends, and bluesmen. Cobb has a name for that rich tapestry of music southern eclectic and he offers up his own version of it with his newest album, Southern Star.Down here, theres a lot going on and theres nothing going on at the same time, he says. Youve got all these different cultures in the south, and everything is mixed in together. Otis Redding and Little Richard were from the same town in Georgia. So were the Allman Brothers. James Brown and Ray Charles grew up right down the road. All these sounds reflect the South itself, and that music has influenced the whole world. Its definitely influenced mine.Filled with country-soul songwriting, laid back grooves, and classic storytelling, Southern Star distills the best parts of southern culture into 10 of the strongest songs in Cobbs catalog. He began writing the material after leaving Nashville where he spent a decade releasing solo records like 2016s Shine On Rainy Day (which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album) while penning hit songs for Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, and dozens of others and returning with his family to Georgia. It was a time of change. Not long after celebrating the arrival of his second child, Cobb found himself mourning the death of his longtime friend, Jason Rowdy Cope of The Steel Woods.Rowdy was like my older brother, says Cobb, who named Southern Star in part after a small-town bar that he and Cope used to frequent. He loved the music that came out of Georgia, and he helped me appreciate it even more. A lot of artists like to branch out and become experimental as their career continues, but I sort of go the opposite way. I feel like I can never go wrong if I continue to get closer and closer to the core of who I am and what I love, musically. Coming back to Georgia helped me with that. Southern Star is the sound of me getting closer to the source.
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