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WELDING BURNS Rod Picott is back with a beautifully crafted new CD. Welding Burns is a fully realized songwriting marvel with characters so vivid the songs play like intimate 3 minute noir movies. Picott's ragged and soulful voice spins songs of loss, desire, rapture and work while pedal steel guitar winds elegantly throughout the album. Welding Burns is an album about scars of the skin and scars of the heart. Three songs; "Welding Burns", "Black T-Shirt" and "Rust Belt Fields" are co-written by Rod's longtime collaborator Slaid Cleaves. This is Picott's seventh cd release including an album of duets with occasional musical duo partner Amanda Shires.

Welding Burns was recorded at True Tone Studios in Nashville TN with co- producer, engineer David Henry [Cowboy Junkies, REM] The recording band features AMA instrumentalist of the year Will Kimbrough [Rodney Crowell] on guitar as well as Alex McCollough on pedal steel, Paul Slivka on bass, Paul Griffith on drums and Amanda Shires on fiddle. Track Listing: Welding Burns, Black T- Shirt, 410, Little Scar, Sheetrock Hanger, Jealous Heart, Still I Want You Bad, Your Father's Tattoo, Rust Belt Fields, When My Running is Through

"...impressive songs"
-Q Magazine

"...an album for our times"  
-IrishTimes

 "...everything Picott touches turns to gold here"  
-Country Standard Time

• Rod Picott was voted #1 Songwriter of the year for 2011 by the Freeform American Roots Radio reporters
• Rod Picott was voted #1 Male artist of the year by the FAR Chart reporters.
• Welding Burns was voted the #5 CD release of 2011 by the FAR Chart reporters.
• Rod Picott's 2011 release Welding Burns spent 10 straight weeks on the AMA chart