The Denver band plays the Skylark Lounge on Friday.
, has long been a Baker neighborhood staple, but he’s an Okie at heart. Growing up in Oklahoma, the former jock even had quite the countrified nickname.“Any championship game, any big game, my mom would always make fried chicken before the game. I'd always chew gum during the game; I would always I played third base, the hot corner, so there was a big game where I was playing really well and my coach was just, ‘He's chewing that chicken gum today,'" he explains.
“It wasn’t Nashville and it wasn’t Austin and it wasn’t L.A., and it felt like its own thing,” Whitehead says, “and it’s been real good to me.” “It’s kind of more produced and warm,” Whitehead says. “I feel like the more you learn, the more tools you have to use. In this creative space, it kind of tends to go that way — a little more produced, a little more warm. I wanted everything done with a lot more intent on this. I wrote these songs so I could play them solo or with the full band, and I wanted them produced that way, but I also wanted it to be more about the songs and less guitar hooks.
Whitehead, with his welcoming Oklahoma drawl, Western fashion and heartfelt performances, is “Blue Collar Hard” in his own way, too, but a close listen to his open-hearted yet gritty songs shows he’s grown something aligning more with Springsteen's blue-collar than Merle Haggard's. He’s disappointed with much of what’s called “country music” today, anyway.
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