Taste Test: Brad Armstrong consumed by monstrous flames with ‘Brother Ford’
Americana man regals a violent tale of sorrow with a new song.
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The fire licks his feet before worming into his bones. Brad Armstrong, once a stalwart in the now-defunct 13ghosts, which made six records and wore the country ragged between 2000-2012, is now feeling the burn of an even bigger, unquenchable fire. His 2018 studio record, Empire, was a slow-burner and eventually earned astounding press, TV placements and more eardrums than he could have predicted. With “Brother Ford,” a grittier, more sinister and evocative “Devil Went Down to Georgia” soul-extinguisher, is a tragically wicked tale of a doomed preacher man who falls prey to the truth he was so desperately hunting. “Preacher Jim took off his shirt / He indicated on his chest / A bloody wound was never dressed / In the place where was his heart was darkness and nothing more,” he regals the violent fall in excruciating, necessary detail.
“Brother Ford” samples Armstrong’s new album, I Got No Place Remembers Me, out April 26.
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