Rocky Votolato Wild Roots

Release date:
December 9, 2022
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With his first release since 2015, Seattle based Indie-folk hero Rocky Votolato returns with Wild Roots, an intimate concept album inspired by and written for his family. Each song a letter dedicated to a specific family member and focused on a special memory or moment in time. After losing his child in December of 2021 in a tragic car accident, the entire album, and especially the song "Becoming Human", now a posthumous love letter, takes on an even deeper while devastatingly bittersweet meaning. The production on Wild Roots is hushed, handcrafted, and warm - an intimate and personal experience that brings the nature of Votolato's storytelling to life in very authentic and genuine ways. Produced, engineered, and mixed by Votolato himself, the record is a deliberate construction of his conceptual vision and new phase of his recording career.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Evergreen
  • 2. 23 Stitches
  • 3. Glory (Broken Dove)
  • 4. There Is a Light
  • 5. X1998X
  • 6. Becoming Human
  • 7. Breakwater
  • 8. Little Black Diamond
  • 9. Archangels of Tornados
  • 10. The Great Pontificator
  • 11. The Wildest Horses
  • 12. Little Lupine
  • 13. Bella Rose
  • 14. Southpaw
  • 15. Texas Scorpion (The Outlaw Blues)