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The country singer-songwriter mixes bluegrass with folk, Appalachia with Texas, on songs like “Truth Ain’t Hard to Find”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n\tGeography, or at least a sense of place, can help country songwriters find a new gear. That\u2019s the case with Simon Flory<\/a> and his new album Man of Visions<\/em>. To record the LP, Flory, an Indiana native, decamped from his home base of Fort Worth, Texas, to the Panhandle town of Turkey, where he immersed himself in the dusty, desolate vibes of the burg. <\/p>\n \n\tThat it\u2019s also the hometown of Bob Wills<\/a>, Western swing legend, didn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n \n\tLast week, Flory released the barn-dance project Man of Visions<\/em>, a 10-track album that mixes bluegrass with folk, Appalachia with Texas. On the single \u201cTruth Ain\u2019t Hard to Find,\u201d which arrived on Halloween with a music video filmed in Turkey, Flory and his co-writer, Nashville singer-songwriter Zach Schmidt<\/a>, try to make sense of a world diluted by misinformation. \u201cWhen everyone is born into this world built on lies\/if the truth is so concrete\/why\u2019s the truth so hard to find?\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n