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Papercut Massacre
12+ albums
alternative rockpost-grungemodern rockrockhard rock
about
The psyche of Joey Culver, when based on an impression drawn from his lyrics, is one of despondent, self-imposed isolation. That first read is in reality far from the true spiritual being of this Mississippi native. He has come out of a debilitating, mentally unstable upbringing with a perspective of hope for a future far better than his past. The title If These Scars Could Talk, is the source for the lyrical meaning of this debut. Culver was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in the heart of the Gulf coast to parents who had recently divorced during the pregnancy. His mother married young, and had two children with his father. Another child, a second daughter came later. The only male figure in his life was his Uncle Joe, also his namesake, as his stepfather worked off-shore in oil exploration. Later as his adult life began, a relationship with his biological father would come at 18. Culver began his life in a household that upon birth was normal and nurturing. By the age of eight, with two other children to care for, a young Culver became too much to handle and his mother placed him in a behavioral hospital. From the ages of eight to fourteen, he was in mental institutions and boys homes. At fourteen, for two years he was in foster care, as a ward of The State of Texas. Child Protective Services released him to his birth mother at the age of sixteen. When he returned to Mississippi, he dropped out of school, got his GED, and enlisted in the U.S. Navy on his seventeenth birt
