Nashville songwriter Rachel Baiman brings new activist album to Tampa on Saturday
'Common Nation of Sorrow offers an assessment of the country’s current state, telling stories of American capitalism and the individual and communal devastation it manifests.'
Nashville fiddler-slash-singer-songwriter Rachel Baiman is celebrating the release of her new album Common Nation of Sorrow by spending a long weekend in the Sunshine State.
From what we’ve heard so far, the album tackles topics ranging from feeling imprisoned by some sort of debt, to how self-made men might not be as tough as they make themselves out to be. Considering the latter topic, perhaps it’s fitting to hold album release weekend in a state where an ex-president lurks in his Palm Beach mansion, partially thanks to a small loan of $1 million.
"Common Nation of Sorrow offers an assessment of the country’s current state, telling stories of American capitalism and the individual and communal devastation it manifests," a press release says. "Across the record’s ten tracks, Baiman highlights these shared experiences with the hope they will become a tool for activism."
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