Daily Discovery: Stephen Simmons, “Hard it Goes”

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July 3, 2014 2:25 pm

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Stephen Simmons is a roots artist who got his inspiration for music from his small Tennessee hometown. His take on a variety of facets of human existence is timeless, creating a songscape with which anyone can identify. Look out for his album Hearsay slated to drop July 28.

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ARTIST: STEPHEN SIMMONS

SONG: “HARD IT GOES”

BIRTHDATE: July 28, 1973

HOMETOWN: Woodbury / Manchester – TN

CURRENT LOCATION: Nashville, TN

AMBITIONS: To keep making music; being able to continue to make the albums I want to make, pursue where my songwriting takes me, and to continue to tour both in the USA and Europe as I’ve done past ten years. I’m still in awe of the journey. I don’t want to ever loose that.

TURN-OFFS: injustice, pretensciousness, and entitlement

TURN-ONS: intelligence, kindness, talent

DREAM GIG: Ryman Auditorium, Austin city limits close second.

FAVORITE LYRIC: “The future hides and the past just slides, England lies in between, floating on a silver mist, so cold and so clean, California’s shaking like an angry child will, who has asked for love and is unanswered still” -Jackson Browne “Something Fine”

CRAZIEST PERSON I KNOW: I’ll give that one to myself, no reason to ruin someone else’s reputation.

SONG I WISH I WROTE: a tie: “company man” bob McDill/Dan seals and “something fine” Jackson Browne

5 PEOPLE I’D MOST LIKE TO HAVE DINNER WITH: Bill Clinton, Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama, Willie Nelson, Jon Stewart

MY FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Bruce Springsteen ‘ghost of Tom Joad’ tour at Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN 1996. My first Ryman and Bruce experience rolled into one.

I WROTE THIS SONG: “Drink Ring Jesus ”