Think about it: Right now, somewhere, there's a kid learning to play guitar who's going to change someone's life with their music | His emotionally open lyrics touch on heartbreak, loneliness, and, ultimately, being every bit as flawed as those around him |
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I was staying at my cousin's house in New Orleans, and I remember feeling like I was doing something wrong | An accomplished songwriter and country hitmaker since the mid-2000s, Laird knows the sorts of hooks and chords that imprint themselves on our memories |
I was five years old and they let me go onstage before they got married and play an original song I wrote.
15But they told me my real name [Ibrahim] was too ethnic, and nobody would pick up the phone, so I changed my name and code-switched my voice to sound more proper, all that shit | is taking over our Headbangers playlist of party-worthy metal and hard rock |
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His sound is just as kaleidoscopic, tracking a restless creative mind as he flips dusty jazz loops, soaring EDM riffs, angelic gospel harmonies, furious rock drumming, and so much more | lets us in on a few stories behind his chosen tracks for the takeover |
Yes, it is true that I created them, but I was never part of it.
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