Nick Shoulders — “Dixie Be Damned”

On Halloween, Fayetteville folkster and Gar Hole Records co-founder Nick Shoulders will drop his fifth album, “Refugia Blues,” a collection of songs he likened to Bruce Springsteen’s stripped-back “Nebraska” in a recent interview with Holler . “Some people listen to Bruce for the E Street Band and the big radio hits, but I like the intimacy and rawness of ‘Nebraska’ instead,” he said. “I’d like to think of ‘Refugia Blues’ as a little window into the heart, as opposed to the drumbeat of a revolution.” Ahead of the release, Shoulders has shared two tracks: the a cappella “ Apocalypse Never ,” which came out last year, and “Dixie Be Damned,” which came out on Wednesday.

The new song, like much of Shoulders’ work, overtly critiques those in power an

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