By Richard Harris
Grammy-nominated songwriter Brent Cobb of Ellaville recently released a new album - Ain't Rocked in a While -with his band, The Fixin's.
Of course, Cobb, with five previous albums, has been rocking for quite a while, but the title track is one that pretty much anyone who is approaching, or past, middle age can relate to, as it describes the daily grind of life and how sometimes something - rocking - is missing.
"Age knows no shame.
The mirror clearly shows it;
Pleasure mixed with pain.
We're all chained up, shackled 40 hours a week;
Bound from 9 to 5 like cattle grounded into beef.
We ain't rocked in a while.
Hell, we oughta cut loose ..."
While the album just came out, Cobb is enough...
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