Mark Germino

After rambling around North Carolina, dividing his time between being a truck driver and a poet, this bard of the open road turned his wheels toward Nashville and began a successful career as a country singer. Germino's songs are rich in travail and the small personal victories won by common folk getting by as best they know how. Like Townes Van Zandt or a later-day Sherwood Anderson, his work transforms the ordinary details of life into signs of endurance and hope. His gravelly voice bespeaks the hard road he's traveled and lived to tell the tale.