Nathan Evans Fox Releases New Single 'Sevindust'

(Free Dirt) North Carolina-bred, Nashville-based indie country artist Nathan Evans Fox releases "Sevindust," the latest from his forthcoming LP Heirloom, due May 29. Built on his signature blend of plainspoken storytelling and moral clarity, the song examines the cost of maintaining belief systems that protect some while causing harm to others.

Sevindust is a pesticide commonly used in the South to protect plants from pests and disease - effective for the targeted crop, but destructive to the surrounding ecosystem. Fox uses the concept as a metaphor for belief systems that preserve belonging for some while causing widespread harm to others.

"Over the last few years, I have had a number of hard conversations with family who have a Sevindust approach to familial love," Fox explains. "While their politics, family myths, and religion offer protection for their loved ones, they bring about plenty of harm to others. This is a song about breaking up with that way of making family and those family members who refuse to let go of it."

"Sevindust" follows "Lots Of Beginnings," a meditation on what Fox hopes his child inherits from him: the generosity and grit instilled by his beloved grandmother, and the hope that he will be the kind of parent worth missing one day. Last summer, Fox experienced viral success with album track "Hillbilly Hymn (Okra & Cigarettes)," a communal sing-along using the language Fox grew up with in the Bible Belt to articulate the world he wants to build. "The only thing I'm being evangelical about is liberation," he says.

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