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sarah peacock burn the witch

4/17/2020

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​Sarah Peacock (from the album Burn the Witch available on Road Dog Enterprises)
Pounding drumbeats create a trance. Sarah Peacock materializes as the sorceress, her wand orchestrating the theatrics both musically and lyrically for the Burn the Witch title track, the cut a calling card hinting at the musical magic circulating like smoke throughout the album. Her voice is a powerhouse, Sarah Peacock seasoning her natural hint of Country with the cascading Americana atmospherics that drift across “Take a Little Time” and the sole source of comfort in the heaving rhythms matching the final breaths of “Thomas”. Burn the Witch shows tenderness with the Folk finger-picking of “Hold Me in Your Heart” as Sarah Peacock saddles up a Country gold that shimmers like midday heat in “Mojave” while she follows a toy piano march into the Southern Gothic tale of “Keep Quiet”. Smoothly sliding over a triphammer beat taking “The Cool Kids” on a ride for stories of their equally bumpy lives, the message of perseverance and triumph in facing of dead ends a template for Burn the Witch.
For the theme of Burn the Witch, Sarah Peacock looked to her own personal hurdles, recalling a moment in the not-to-distant past when Sarah questioned her choices. While on a four-month tour in 2016, Sarah Peacock, band, and crew stopped for a bite to eat, returning to their ride to find a generator fire had burned everything on board. Shortening the step-by-step process that helped her find her stage legs, Sarah Peacock shared that ‘after the fire, I signed with a Nashville label when I came home from the tour. I did two records for American Roots Records prior to parting ways with them in the fall of 2018. There was Beauty in the Ashes (2017) and then Hot Sheet Motel (2018). I think the connection piece and synergy between the bus fire and Burn the Witch was that the bus was a pivotal moment where I realized people really were listening. The fans showed up for me when I was ready to quit, and that made me internalize (probably for the first time) that the world was actually paying attention. I started writing differently. I wrote like the fate of the social climate depended on it. Burn the Witch is what happened after really letting the juices of that experience and those last two records soak in. It’s about the music, the songs, and the power they have to plant a seed of change’. Speaking to the face across the table or the smiles looking up from the edge of the stage, Sarah Peacock sings a love letter in “The One”, haunts “House of Bones” with deathly wishes and the ghostly sound of footsteps trailing whileBurn the Witch carves a funky groove out of sharp-angled chords and tight-curve rhythms in “Colorado”.
Listen and buy the music of Sarah Peacock from AMAZON
Please go to the Sarah Peacock website for more information
 
 

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