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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.
Brent Cobb.

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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