The Great Unknowns – Rock music for the open road
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WWJRD – New City Soundtrack
Becky Warren has gathered acclaim for her songs about other people—veterans on her debut album, War Surplus , and entrepreneurs experiencing homelessness on her second album, Undesirable . For the first time, on The Sick Season (out 10/23/20), Warren turns her focus inward, delivering a deeply personal set of songs propelled by the same catchy, guitar-driven rock that made her earlier albums critical successes.
By the time Undesirable came out in October 2018, Warren was barely leaving her Nashville house. She should have been capitalizing on great reviews from outlets like Rolling Stone Country (who named Undesirable one of the 20 best country and Americana albums of the year), Billboard, and NPR Music. Instead, she hardly toured behind the record at all, aside from sporadic dates opening for the Indigo Girls. The debilitating depression that she'd battled successfully with medication for years had returned in a
This dark period lasted 16 months. While Warren had previously had visions of a third concept album about other people, the longer the blackness went on, the more it became the only thing she could write about. And so she did. But as she did on her earlier albums, Warren approached the topic with a sense of humor and an abiding love of anthemic rock melodies. There are songs where her depression is personified, like the slinky "Favorite Bad Penny", where depression is a demonic but seductive woman who keeps
The Great Unknowns – Rock music for the open road
Personal Songwriting Service | SongSidekick
WWJRD – New City Soundtrack