Nick Shoulders
Nick Shoulders | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nicklaus Robert Shoulders |
| Born | 1989 |
| Origin | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, harmonica, drums, banjo, fiddle, mouth harp, vocals |
| Labels | Gar Hole |
| Associated acts | Shawn James |
Nick Shoulders is an American country singer-songwriter from Fayetteville, Arkansas. After achieving local success with his punk rock band Thunderlizards in the early 2010s and playing harmonica and banjo with Shawn James and the Shapeshifters, in 2017 Shoulders began releasing country music as a solo artist.[1][2][3] His solo work has reached a much wider audience, beginning with a performance of his original song "Rather Low" gathering considerable momentum on YouTube.[4] Shoulders has been praised for his distinctive vocal style, which incorporates influences from early country music in the form of yodelling and whistling.[5]
Shoulders has been outspoken in questioning the culture of modern country music. In a 2020 article for In These Times, he criticised "fake twang" – the imitation of the Southern accent by musicians who are not from the American South, considering this practice symptomatic of the close association between country music, whiteness, and Conservatism in the United States. This association, he argued, failed to "acknowledge the diverse and complicated origin of these uniquely American musical forms", as well as the diversity of the rural United States as a whole, and he expressed the aspiration to help make country music "more accessible and more welcoming to people outside of the white rural experience".[6]
Discography
- Lonely Like Me (2017)
- Okay, Crawdad (2019)
- Home on the Rage (2021)
References
- ↑ Barrett, Roger (3 July 2012). "Flyer Profile: Thunderlizards". Fayetteville Flyer. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ "Bear - Shawn James". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ Barrett, Roger (11 December 2020). "Nick Shoulders returns home, preps new album and label". Fayetteville Flyer. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ Mitchell, Matt (7 April 2021). "Ozark Outlaw Nick Shoulders Challenges Southern Preconceptions on "Home on the Rage"". Bandcamp. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ Dennis, Timothy (16 August 2019). "Crooner, Artist Transitions from Punk to Honky Tonk". KUAF. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ Shoulders, Nick (21 March 2020). "Fake Twang: How White Conservatism Stole Country Music". In These Times. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
- ↑ "Album Review – Nick Shoulders – "Home on the Rage"". Saving Country Music. May 1, 2021.
This article "Nick Shoulders" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Nick Shoulders. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
|
This page exists already on Wikipedia. |
