Cheryl Cawood - Deep Down in Your Bones

“Deep Down in Your Bones,” the first single from Cawood’s forthcoming album, Bullet in the Cabin Wall (Radio Add Date April 5, 2022) is a song about the troubled life of a mother and how it reflects on her daughter,” says Cheryl Cawood. “Mother's Day has always been hard for me. My mother was one of eight kids raised in a dirt floor cabin in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. By the time she was fifteen she proposed to my dad. There were too many mouths to feed. I'm pretty sure she was not happily married. So yeah, she made her share of wrong choices and hence, so did I. I don't want you to think I didn't love my mother. She was only human, not terrible.”
Calling her music “Kentucky jams melded with jangly folk rock,” Cawood invites listeners on a journey to a bygone era, back to her homeplace. The Cawood settlement of the 1700’s was later inhabited by the hundreds of migrant coal workers in the camps that sprang up in Harlan County, Kentucky when the big fossil fuel industry boomed. Cawood’s roots are as deep as a cast iron skillet is strong. Imagine Mama frying up a Sunday chicken supper while Pappy scratched out banjo tunes on the front porch. This rich and rustic history can be visualized, heard, and felt on her upcoming album Bullet in the Cabin Wall (add date April 5, 2022).
Cawood lived a cover band musician’s lifestyle while balancing a job and family. She is a survivor. She has endured several divorces and love relationships. Then The opioid epidemic wreaked total havoc, sucking the life blood out of any semblance of normalcy for her. No stranger to turning to music when life gets mean and knocks you off your feet, she developed a passion to give back to the community that saved her daughter’s life. And hence, Hope Loves Harmony was born. She writes songs with parents of addicted loved ones to help with healing. She advocates for social change surrounding issues of mental illness, poverty and how these relate to drug abuse and addiction.