Description
After more than a year of national and worldwide touring following the release of her critically acclaimed album Wheel, both headlining, and alongside such varied acts as Against Me!, The Go-Gos, Kevin Devine, Tim Kasher of Cursive, and The Gaslight Anthem, the songwriter has now recorded her fourth album, Cocksure.
The record features musicians Mike Campbell, Alex Billig and Peter Naddeo, who in various incarnations have performed with her for over seven years, as well as newcomer Samantha Niss, a long-time Hudson Valley resident and the veritable go-to drummer of the region.
Where 2013s Wheel was full of lingering uncertainty, harkening to Stevensons folk and country leanings, Cocksure is a straightforward, to the point, emboldened rock and roll album.
Although some existential dread still peaks through the cracks, Stevenson treats themes as heavy-hearted as sudden and tragic death, self-imposed exile in small windowless rooms, and that back-of-your-mind anxiety that the road youre on may not be the right one, as their own signs of life; a life that is brightly colored by those realities.
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