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SUMMARY:Slaid Cleaves
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 he characters in Slaid Cleaves’ songs live in unglamorous reality. The
 y work dead-end jobs\, they run out of money\, they grow old\, they hold
  on to each other (or not)\, and they die. With an eye for the beauty in
  everyday life\, he tells their stories\, bringing a bit of empathy to t
 heir uncaring world.\n\nOn “Take Home Pay\,” co-written with longtim
 e friend Rod Picott\, Cleaves sings from the perspective of an aging man
 ual laborer\, fighting looming regret and sadness with stubborn resilien
 cy (and opioid use).\n\n“On my way down to the pawn shop\nA couple hun
 dred is all I need\nIf I have to\, I’ll hit the blood bank\nI’m bone
  dry but I can always bleed\nI got some Oxy to keep me moving\nIt slowly
  takes some things away\nThe only thing I was scared of losing\nShe pack
 ed up and left today”\n— “TAKE HOME PAY”\n\n“As befits the tim
 es we live in\, there’s a heavy dose of disappointment and disillusion
  here\,” he says. But somehow\, through the worst of it\, optimism rem
 ains\, as if to say\, “Yeah\, things are pretty bad out there. But the
 re’s still some good stuff if you know where to look.”\n\nOne place 
 his characters find solace is with each other. Traditional love songs ar
 e not often found on a Slaid Cleaves record. Here he approaches the subj
 ect less as a romantic gesture\, and more as a world-weary appreciation 
 of the one who’s seen you through thick and thin\, as in the song “S
 o Good to Me.”\n\n“Times were tough but we were tougher\nSlings and 
 arrows we did suffer\nScars\, we’ve got a few\, but who has not\nWords
  of love and words of anger\nTimes of peace and times of danger\nNever t
 ake for granted what we’ve got”\n— “SO GOOD TO ME”\n\nDescribe
 d as “terse\, clear and heartfelt” (NPR Fresh Air)\, his songs speak
  to timeless truths. “I’m not an innovator. I’m more of a keeper o
 f the flame\,” he says.\n\n“Songs are so accessible. You don’t nee
 d an education to fully appreciate them\, you don’t need a lot of leis
 ure time to spend on them\, you don’t need to learn the language of so
 ng. We seem to be born with it\,” Cleaves explains. “With no prepara
 tion at all\, they can bring you to tears in a matter of seconds. I reme
 mber being three or four and getting a lump in my throat when I heard Ha
 nk Williams sing.”\n\nNow in his fifties\, Cleaves admits that it’s 
 sometimes hard to stay inspired. “I do become jaded\,” he says. “I
  wonder that\, at this point in my career\, I’ve had no real national 
 success. No impact on the culture\, as my heroes had. The music that I l
 ove just doesn’t seem relevant to mainstream culture. But then\, I hav
 e no interest in what mainstream culture offers either.”\n\n“But tho
 se feelings are always quickly overcome by gratitude\,” he explains. �
 ��I’m making a living as a musician\, and making a meaningful connecti
 on with people – what could be better than that?”\n\nGhost on the Ca
 r Radio is Cleaves’ first release since 2013’s Still Fighting the Wa
 r\, which was praised as “one of the year’s best albums” by Americ
 an Songwriter and “carefully crafted…songs about the struggles of th
 e heart in hard times” by the Wall Street Journal. The New York Daily 
 News called his music “a treasure hidden in plain sight\,” while the
  Austin Chronicle declared\, “there are few contemporaries that compar
 e. He’s become a master craftsman on the order of Guy Clark and John P
 rine.”\n\nCOVID-19 INFORMATION\nEffective immediately\, we will no lon
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