Download Of The Day: Chuck Ragan

Amazing artist, quality song, fantastic new album. That's all.

Posted Wednesday, 24 August 2011 by Rock Sound in

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A few weeks ahead of the Revival Tour and only a few days before Hot Water Music play Reading and Leeds we bring you an exclusive sample from Chuck Ragan's new album 'Covering Ground'.

Click on the player below to listen to 'Nomad By Fate' and be sure to check out the full album when it is released on September 12 in the UK via SideOneDummy.



"Though I was born in Pasadena, Texas right outside of Houston in 1974, I've never been able to honestly answer the question of where I was from. I've moved around the majority of my life. Through the years growing up with my family from Texas, to Georgia, to Tennessee, to Louisiana and then off to Florida by the time I was 12 years old. I spent much time on the road with my mother and father along with my younger brother as they traveled, performed, and competed with their talents.

After a while and a little time in Florida, I found myself in the life of music and then into bands, and of course into road life of my own through my young adult years. Even though I lived in Florida for 18 or so years, I feel I was there half of those years if that. From there, I followed my heart out West to California for the woman I'm honored to call my wife. After some years, we uprooted to relocate to Northern California. Still on and off of the road as a touring musician and independent worker.

As much as I would love to settle down, I often wonder where we're off to next and when the moving ends. My loved ones have told me that it's all I know, my friends have always told me they'd see me down the road. I'd love to settle down and not have the brand of a nomad and head home for good, but it's the path we chose and one way or the other, whether I aim for it or not, in the 36 and half years of my life, other than the Camaraderie, I'm still finding myself far away from my loved ones, alone in rooms or even in the crowds yearning to settle down. Yearning to make it home.

I count my blessings and have little regrets for my years, but I do long to have peace and time with the ones who I love the most. Unfortunately, time at home for people like myself is a high commodity and very hard to come by when you're running hard in a life of living hand to mouth with little long-term security. It's simple to wear down fast and tough to recharge in the short windows we're given, but not nearly as tough as holding on to the people who we cherish the most while living this type of life.

This song is simply a song of hope and commitment to the woman I love, about working hard to make it home before I completely lose myself and confessing the fact that though I do work hard, I'm living within a very self-absorbed lifestyle where it's a fine line between giving everything you've got and taking more than you give.

Until the day that I'm truly able to change my lifestyle and whether I have wanted to believe it at times or not, I seem to be a nomad by fate." - Chuck Ragan


The Revival Tour featuring Chuck, Brian Fallon, Dave Hause and Dan Andriano kicks off on September 27, for all the dates click here. Hot Water Music play The Lock Up Stage at Leeds Festival on Friday, August 26 and Reading Festival on Sunday, August 28.

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