About Rod Picott
Over twenty-three years, twelve albums, three published books, and a few thousand shows, Rod Picott has worked — powered by the fuel of the blue-collar world he was born into. The son of a hard-drinking welder and a homemaker, Picott’s youth set him on a road of self-reliance and fierce independence that at fifty-eight years still runs through his blood.
Raised in the small town of South Berwick, Maine, Rod Picott was a restless and rebellious youth. After high school, he worked as a construction worker by trade until moving to Nashville, TN, in 1994. He turned down the one record deal he was offered at the start of his career and did not look in the rearview mirror — choosing instead to cut his own path and lay a bet on his own hard work.
“My parents had that worry over my future that all parents have. Their dream for me was to be an electrician at the shipyard but by fifteen years old I’d already seen Chrissie Hynde in leather pants so I sort of had other things on my mind – and they weren’t in South Berwick, Maine.” – R.P.
