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Mon Rovîa’s recent song “Heavy Foot” asks a simple question: What if we cut the bullshit and chose to love one another?

Sparsely arranged and performed with hard-earned clarity, “Heavy Foot” listens like an instant folk classic, grappling plainly with a litany of current social ills, including gun violence, homelessness, the prison industrial complex and genocide. Then the piece urges listeners to hold onto love and hope in the face of despair.

The Chattanooga-based singer-songwriter performed “Heavy Foot” as part of his Grand Ole Opry debut in late July. That appearance is the latest milestone for the quickly rising artist, whose backstory is as co

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