Singersongwriter Rocky Votolato was born in 1978 spending his childhood on a 50-acre horse farm in rural Frost TX population 647 located 100 miles south of Dallas Growing up amidst a backing soundtrack of Willie Nelson Steve Earle and Johnny Cash he …

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, the Decemberists burst onto the indie-rock scene in the early 2000s, weaving complex, literary narratives (courtesy of singer/songwriter Colin Meloy) through layers of chiming, acoustic-based folk-rock. Meloy's literary…