Songs We Love: Brent Cobb, 'Ain't A Road Too Long'
The fast-rising young Nashville songwriter finds transcendence in soul's leavening and the grease of rock 'n' roll. Brent Cobb's sophomore record is out early 2018.
by Ann Powers
Sep 12, 2017
2 minutes
In Nashville, musicians are working people. The labor of artists is felt everywhere, of course, but it's particularly visible in a town where the country music industry has songwriters clocking into offices to collaborate on hits, and the woman who played bass on your favorite Americana song, the fast-rising young Nashville mainstay who wrote hits for Luke Bryan and others before releasing his last year, is now offering an anthem for the laborers who make music possible — a funny, sweet and funky talking blues in which Cobb counts his blessing while acknowledging the sweat equity it took to secure them.
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