![]() ![]() But more often, DeCicca’s gaze captures rare beauties. On “Cutting Down the Country,” a searing Tom Petty-style rocker, he seethes about urban sprawl, “cookie cutter towns” and “cookie cutter cities.” “We’re cutting down the country/won’t grow back,” DeCicca sings, raging about what’s been lost and can’t be regained. Sometimes, what DeCicca sees results in anger. It’s an album about recognizing the world around you, not the one on a phone screen or cable news broadcast. It’s a lean set of tunes working with a crack band including drummer Gary Mallaber (whose playing can be heard on Bruce Springsteen’s Lucky Town, a favorite of Jerry’s, as well as Gene Clark and Van Morrison records), DeCicca offers raw and driving heartland rock. These 11 songs, recorded at Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas, find DeCicca offering beautiful ways to reject so much of our present moment’s ugliness. Though it shares a naturalistic immediacy with its predecessor, the new lp is cut from a different cloth. It turns out JDD wasn’t done for the year: late last month, he released another full-length record: Burning Daylight via Super Secret Records. A jazzy excursion into cosmic country soul, it paired intimate words - about watermelons, rivers, and sacred spaces - with expansive sounds. ![]() Earlier this year, Texas songwriter Jerry David DeCicca released his second solo album, Time the Teacher.
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