At 18, Jack Barksdale nonetheless has loads of time to brush up on socioeconomics. “I’m conscious that I’m younger and don’t have the solutions,” says the Fort Price native. “However I do assume one of the crucial attention-grabbing and urgent issues proper now’s wealth inequality and the consolidation of energy and wealth amongst fewer and fewer entities. These points have lots of ripple results throughout many different areas of fear.”
Clever past his years, Barksdale has been performing his personal tunes since grade college. He’s brought about fairly a stir in singer/songwriter circles of late, touchdown a take care of Actually Handmade, a label backed by the property of iconic Texas troubadour Man Clark. “The Rich Man’s Debt” (Cloverdale), is the primary standalone single from Barksdale for the reason that June launch of his LP, Voices, which options visitor appearances from Sarah Jarosz and different notables. The tune’s heartfelt macro perspective reveals that it is a gifted child whose head is in the correct place.
“As I perceive it, many actions that should do with equality have their roots in prejudice and/or poverty, which frequently result in each other and could be arduous to flee,” he says. “This tune is my try to specific my ideas on the topic in a nuanced however nonetheless simply digestible method.”
We’re proud to premiere Jack Barksdale’s “The Rich Man’s Debt.”
—Hobart Rowland
