Rivals of the Peacemaker

 Sometimes the creative process sucks, and no one knows that more than really creative artists. Just ask Alex Watson, the artistic force behind Chicago’s dark folk quintet, Rivals of the Peacemaker and musical partner Billy Watson.For starters, these two will be the first to tell you that they may have shared a home and a dog, but they don’t share a record collection. It would be easy enough to say that they’ve worked both of their proclivities (him: metal and alt rock; her: folk and classic country) into the sweet but insistent and insurgent Americana of Rivals of the Peacemaker, but that would be selling short a more intricate reality – it’s fucking hard to make music, get laid and pay the mortgage all with the same person.

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