Here’s a challenging topic from Nicholas Rowe, a song in which he questions every artistic motive he has, singing “What’s the use in trying to write another song? / When I’ve got a hundred others that are only half done” and follows this up with a wholesale shredding of his individuality “what’s the use in trying to explain who I am / I am just the culmination of every book I’ve ever read.”
And this is no posturing on Rowe’s part as he describes himself as a “narcissist crippled with self-doubt”, who started out intending to play rock but got sidetracked by Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ and became a folk songwriter instead. This song is taken from Nicholas Rowe’s latest release ‘The Circle Remains Unbroken’ which was released last month.
