Post by Scully on Jul 19, 2021 9:35:11 GMT -6
Erik Shicotte’s Booming Voice Rings Honest On New EP Miss’ry Pacific
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“I myself can't write anything I don't know, see, feel, or believe in,” says Wisconsin-based singer, songwriter, and ironworker Erik Shicotte. “I draw from my experiences and imagination within interpretation.” Shicotte’s new EP, Miss’ry Pacific—out today via Black Country Rock Media—falls right in line with those beliefs and a hard-working authenticity puts him—right alongside contemporaries like Colter Wall—into a level of legitimacy unobtainable by some of today’s drugstore cowboy songwriters. In a six-song span, listeners are greeted with waltzes, train songs, honky-tonkers, and country ramblers, on which Shicotte sings with humor and pathos about trains, trucks, and hard-working heroes who hang out around highways, rails, and honky-tonks.
Well studied in the art of outlaw-ism, there are echoes of the greats in Shicotte’s songs—Waylon, Willie, Cash, Haggard, and the wit of the late great John Prine, just to name a few—but Shicotte’s infusion of his travels, jobs, and adventures into the songs make them 100% his own. Fans and critics alike have already attached to some of these stories and melodies ahead of Miss’ry Pacific’s release. The Bluegrass Situation premiered the cinematic video for “Flint” and Lonesome Highway reviewed the EP, calling the title track “a lively opener with Shicotte’s billowing baritone surrounded by raging fiddles and lively pedal steel” before adding, “he doesn’t put a foot wrong on this six-track mini-album.” Off The Record UK and Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express both caught up with Shicotte ahead of the album’s release to dig a little deeper into what makes him, and his music, tick. Last week, Holler named Shicotte their New Artist of the Week and premiered the music video for “Miss’ry Pacific.”
Miss’ry Pacific Tracklist:
Miss’ry Pacific
Kansas City
Niners
Flint
Silver
Die Like A Man