Jared Deck didn’t mean to give up his music career, he just needed to get by. His album, “Head Above Water,” speaks to the blue-collar struggle of getting ahead in a getting by world. Winner of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival songwriting contest, Deck sings of hard work and hard luck, harkening upon his days as an outsourced factory worker, an oil field roughneck, and a gospel church musician.
