Southern alt rocker Willy Cobb returns with a new single entitled “Parking Lot Thoughts” out now. Listen to “Parking Lot Thoughts” HERE and watch the accompanying music video below.
About the track, he comments, “The song is about me feeling down working as a door guy at a music venue, seeing all these acts that don’t appreciate what they’re doing – touring and playing – and treating venue people like sh*t.”
Once again, the maverick artist channels a classic loud-soft grunge dynamic through an outlaw country lens. Right out of the gate, he sets the scene through a woozy acoustic guitar, “I sweep the parking lots alone at night. I wonder what I’ll find this time.” Unable to contain a flurry of emotion on the hook, distortion kicks into overdrive, and Willy screams, “I just want to be on stage and not give a dam, yeah…parking lot thoughts get me crazy.”
Alternative rock singer-songwriter Willy Cobb’s new music, produced and co-written with country singer Brent Cobb and The Cadillac Three leader Jaren Johnston, serves as a dynamic crash course in his blend of down-home pride and punk attitude. As a kid riding in his family’s truck, his dad would throw on Hank Williams, while his mom favored Nirvana. Now a rising talent in Nashville, the singer and guitarist still channels his upbringing in his lyrics, which pay homage to small-town misbehavior and malaise.
Not caring what people think is a crucial aspect of Willy Cobb and his view of himself and his music. While he credits other like-minded Southern artists who flout easy genre labels, Cobb considers himself to be on a unique mission to connect with fans who might feel like outsiders in their communities. “There’s a whole minority of kids in the South that feel like me—that were weird and alternative in high school,” Cobb explains. “I want them to see that you don’t have to be country to be from Georgia.”
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