Blog: MAGNET

We're not sure whether he smokes, but on his debut album for Bloodshot, Mississippi songwriter Cory Branan's vocal chords sound like the cigarettes have run up and down them with a metal rasp a few times. It works great with his hard-bitten, bitter-as-fuck folk/punk/pop, and anyway as he says, "What didn't kill you/Make you wish [...]

• Cory Branan - Badman