Hang Your Hopes on a Crooked Nail

Hang Your Hopes On a Crooked Nail is the 2013 release from acclaimed singer-songwriter Rod Picott, the follow-up to his 2011 release, Welding Burns. Produced by famed Nashville producer R.S. Field (Billy Joe Shaver, Hayes Carll, Justin Townes Earle) Picott rightly considers this to be the best sounding album of his career to date.

Although he's never achieved (let alone even sought) household-name status as a performer on the mainstream level, Picott's songwriting chops have earned him considerable respect amongst both connoisseurs of true-grit Americana and such fellow renowned roots artists as Mary Gauthier, Fred Eaglesmith, Gurf Morlix, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Amanda Shires, and Slaid Cleaves.

Cleaves, who grew up with Picott in South Berwick, Maine, and played with him in the same high-school garage band, the Magic Rats, has recorded fistfuls of Picott songs across his own catalog - including their co-write Broke Down, an Americana chart smash that won Song of the Year at the 2000 Austin Music Awards.

You're Not Missing Anything
Bluebonnet
Dreams
65 Falcon
I Might Be Broken Now
Where No One Knoews My Name
Mobile Home
Memory
All The Broken Parts
Milkweed
Nobody Knows