JOB FOR A COWBOY vocalist Jonny Davy is featured in a new interview with Robert Gray as part of a series at Ultimate-Guitar.com entitled Hit The Lights. An excerpt follows:

Ultimate-Guitar.com: Ruination's lyrical content is rooted in a political vein, so could you shed more light on this?

Jonny Davy: "Yeah. I grew up with a single mom, and she just took me around. My family is Dominican Republican, and all of my family from that country is extremely political. They'd take me to rallies and protests - I was roughly eight to ten years old, and didn't know what the hell was going on. I would just hold signs on the street (laughs). Actually, my great grandfather was the president of the Dominican Republic, so I was somewhat bound into that. When we wrote Ruination, I already had that political blood in me I guess. When writing songs, the US presidential elections took place, and of course, coverage of that was everywhere. How much in people's faces it was was almost a mind-fuck, so I think that's one of the reasons why I went down a much more political route with Ruination."

Ultimate-Guitar.com: You mentioned that Ruination's vocals are more varied in comparison to those featured upon Genesis. What prompted you to make Ruination's vocals more varied?

Jonny Davy: "I don't know. Listening to Genesis all the time, I think the album just seemed so bland. With my vocal range, I knew I could do more, and I wanted to show off what I could do. I held back in recording Genesis, so with Ruination, I certainly went for it."

To read the interview in its entirety, head here.

As previously reported, BW&BK;'s own Greg Pratt recently had the chance to speak with Job For A Cowboy guitarist Bobby Thompson. Read the full interview here.