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\n\tAdam Weiner knows you\u2019re angry. So, when the Philadelphia singer-songwriter began writing a new album for Low Cut Connie<\/a> \u2014 both the band he leads and the stage name under which he performs \u2014 he looked to a specific great American hero for inspiration: Fred Rogers.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMr. Rogers said, \u2018What do you do with the mad that you feel?\u2019 Remember that speech while he\u2019s putting his sweater on?\u201d Weiner tells Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s Nashville Now<\/em> podcast. \u201cWe all get angry; we\u2019ve got to use it. We\u2019ve got to use it to motivate us: get in the streets, use your voice, vote, talk to your community, organize. Do that first, and then we\u2019re going to have fun. But we\u2019ve got to do both things.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWeiner channels that energy to activate and organize into Livin\u2019 in the USA<\/em>, Low Cut Connie\u2019s eight studio album, which dropped on Friday \u2014 just in time for Independence Day. A collection of 10 songs, the album leads off with the forlorn title track. It\u2019s a song about feeling alienated in your own country that Weiner wrote in response to the current administration\u2019s<\/a> assault on its citizens. \u201cLivin\u2019 in the USA, but it ain\u2019t my home,\u201d he sings.<\/p>\n \n