Taste Test: Mike Stocksdale juggles ‘Wishes and Wants’
The folk storyteller broods on heartbreak and what he needs.
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Truth is a hard pill to swallow, but swallow it we must. “Sometimes, the truth don’t sound so good,” weeps folk singer-songwriter Mike Stocksdale. Acoustic guitar webs around him, sticky and ominous, and his sorrowful resignation strangles the heart. With “Wishes and Wants,” he confronts a relationship’s unfortunate end through poetic means. “I want to break out of my skin / I am a prisoner in these cells /I want to be anywhere else / But I’ve grown accustomed to these walls,” he situates his grief as a life sentence from which he’ll never escape. And in many ways, he’s fine with that, at least for now. Instead, he mulls over his own desires and what he actually needs. Stocksdale’s story is beautifully tragic, a cathartic tale that’ll melt even the coldest of hearts.
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