[Cover photo credit to Neilson Hubbard]

Rod Picott has been working creatively for twenty-three years, delivering twelve albums and three published books, as well as playing a few thousand shows. His new album Starlight Tour is arriving in the USA on February 2nd, 2024.

Raised in the small town of South Berwick Maine, Rod Picott was a restless and rebellious youth, and after high school, a construction worker by trade until moving to Nashville in 1994. He turned down the one record deal he was offered at the start of his career, choosing instead to follow his own path steeped in hard work.

He shares:

My parents had that worry over my future that all parents have. Their dream for me was to be an electrician at the shipyard but by fifteen years old I’d already seen Chrissie Hynde in leather pants so I sort of had other things on my mind – and they weren’t in South Berwick Maine.

Picott’s latest album Starlight Tour was produced by musician and filmmaker Neilson Hubbard (John Prine, Lucinda Williams). The album takes a look the songwriter’s own difficult past and gazes into an uncertain future.

He explains about the album:

I’m not reinventing the wheel. These songs have been sung before. But what I bring is detail only someone who has lived that blue-collar life can bring. I can tell you what it feels like to dig a metal burr from your fingertip with a utility knife; I can tell you how holding 110 pounds of sheetrock over your head day after day slowly crushes your shoulders. This is what I bring.

Picott has mentioned that this could possibly be his last fully realized recording as his future work steers toward the literary world, where he has four more finished books seeking publication.