​Chicago Farmer (from the album Homeaid

​Chicago Farmer (from the album Homeaid

​Chicago Farmer (from the album Homeaid available on LoHi Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Cody Diekhoff (aka Chicago Farmer) is a storyteller. He backs his songs with a Rock’n’Roll Folk when Chicago Farmer cruises into their recent release Homeaid in “Tina Hart’s Mustang”, hear a “Battlecry” set against determined a salvational strum march, and raises a honky-tonk ruckus with “Mattress”. Cody was born in a small Illinois farming community before relocating to Chicago for a music career. He credits his origins as muse for his songs sharing that ‘my hometown kind of goes with me wherever I go. All the things I learned from my grandparents, I take that with me wherever I go. They’re always in my heart and in my mind. If anything, I want my music to be genuine and authentic. My grandfather was a storyteller. He was a veteran, a family farmer, and he just collected stories. Hearing him tell all these stories definitely transferred over into my storytelling that’s in my music’. 
Country Rock backs the story in “Great River Road” as Homeaid shutters and shakes across “Peshtigo” and hears a song of love addressed to the title track, spinning a sad Country tune for “Mile Marker 25”. Following a tradition of storytelling Folk Singers from Woody Guthrie to Todd Snider (who Chicago Farmer toured with extensively), the band puts a backbeat to the stories on Homeaid. A ballad of the past travels through “The Twenty Dollar Bill” while Chicago Farmer injects a Rock’n’Roll pulse underneath their version of Ted Hawkins’ “Sorry You’re Sick”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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