Nick Shoulders - Rather Low | OurVinyl Sessions

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Yodeling country crooner, Nick Shoulders, accompanied by Milly Racoon, performs “Rather Low” from his 2019 album “Okay, Crawdad.” This live session was filmed and recorded from the front porch of a historic home at Flowers’ Farms just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

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About Nick:
Wielding an ethereal croon and masterful whistle crafted from a lifetime chasing lizards through the Ozark hills, Nick Shoulders is a living link to roots of country music with a penchant for the absurd. Combining his family's deep ties to regional traditional singing with his years of playing to crowded street corners, Nick has sought to forge a hybridized form of raucously clever country music; born of forgotten rocky hollers and bred to confront the tensions of the 21st century South. As evidenced by his surreal album art and anachronistic songwriting, Nick’s creative output is steeped in the complicated history of his beloved home of rural Arkansas, but crafted as a conscious rebuke of country music’s blind allegiance to historical seats of power and repression. With a kind word and a mean yodel, Nick hopes to put the ‘Try’ in country.

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Lyrics:
My eyes adjust,
my joints are rusty,
sheets are awful cold and dusty,
roll over folks it must have been another night on the bend.

Kick rocks,
slept in socks,
BooLahLah and levee walks,
this couch is my kingdom and I swear there’s bugs in my head.

Sick sad and sentient,
a penny saved a penny spent,
asleep at the wheel sure beats being awake in my bed.

Last call to feel small,
I dread the sight of alcohol,
I don’t know where this train stops but I want off.

Been rather low,
out here together.
Reckon that we’ll keep trying if rock bottom it never shows
You’re not alone,
if there’s a storm to weather
I aint welcome at home,
I don’t know about you

Double takes and double stops,
I double dare ya call the cops,
I’ll die where I stand if I hear wagon wheel again.

40 days of foggy nights,
withered by the city lights,
I don’t remember existential crisis being part of the deal.

I told you once I told you twice,
I’m steeped in verse and cursed in vice,
I traded my 40 acres for a mountain of pain.

Hotdamn Hamm’s can,
blinded in the promised land,
I don’t mind if I do declare:
we’re as good as dead.

Been rather low,
out here together.
Reckon that we’ll keep trying if rock bottom it never shows
You’re not alone,
if there’s a storm to weather
I aint welcome at home,
I don’t know about you
(written by Nick Shoulders)

Performers:
Guitar & lead vocal: Nick Shoulders
Fiddle & BGVs: Milly Raccoon

Credits:
Director: Michael Moen
Executive Producer: Amber Christian
Editor: Tom Beal
Camera 1: Tom Beal
Camera 2: Craig Hill
Camera 3: Michael Moen
Camera 4: Molly Mantlow
Tracking Engineer: Nick Byrd
Mixing Engineer: Dylan Alldredge
Mastering Engineer: Kevin Dailey
Photographer: Molly Mantlow
Production Assistant: Ridge Bethea