Visit grantpeeples.com to order the CD "Pawnshop"
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THIS I$ THE NEW DEAL
Two years ago I saw a Telecaster guitar I wanted on line. I sent $1200 to a guy I had never met or spoken to, and he sent me the guitar. That got me thinking: Why can’t I just do that with my records? Why do I want to pay Amazon.com 55 percent? Or CD Baby (a great company, I should say) 35 percent? If I trusted that guy to send me the guitar, why don’t I just trust people to send me payment for some songs they want to have?
So, that’s what I’m doing. This is the New Deal. If you would like one of my records, just email me at order@grantpeeples.com Tell me which record you want and give me an address to send it to. And that’s what I’ll do. I’ll include an envelope addressed back to me. Once you get the CD you stick a check or some cash in that envelope, put a stamp on it, and send it to me. Total cost, including shipping, is $15.00.
For booking information write:
booking@grantpeeples.com
Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, John Prine, Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Steve Earle, Terry Allen, Hugh Roche and Dave Hickey
“There’s a dark new day that’s dawning
As we edge closer to the brink
Well it’s early in the morning
But it’s later than you think”
-from "It’s Later Than You Think" on Grant's new cd released in April 2008
What Other Folks Think About Grant's Music...
“Grant is on a roll here, painting evocative pictures of the New American landscape. Writers like this are hard to come by. I really like this album.”
Gurf Morlix
This is one of the best produced records I’ve heard in a long time. And Grant is a master songwriter, who uses words like a Kerouac style-novelist, growling in a steady stream of consciousness, painting dark pictures of an America whose best days appear to be behind her.”
Ron Johnson, The Florida Times Union
“Listening to this record was like taking a long walk down a gravel road with an authentic Leftneck.”
Roy Zimmerman
Sounds Like
If Kitty Wells and Lefty Frizell's daughter married John Prine, and they had a son that married the daughter of Kris Kristopherson and Lucinda Williams, and they were to have a child----it would probably make music kinda like Grant Peeples
In 1995 Grant Peeples divested himself of what he owned in America and moved to a remote Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. After eleven years of official ex-patriot status, he sold the small hotel he had built there and returned to his native North Florida. And ever since, he’s been writing and singing songs about what he found and faced upon his return home.
Released in April of 2008, Peeples’ “It’s Later Than You Think” (his second record since his homecoming) speaks in a clean but brooding Americana sound. He’s a finger-in-your-eye songwriter. Biting, edgy and irreverent. Singing his thinking-man’s songs in an articulate twang and growl. Part Prine, part McMurtry, part Che Guevara. Environmentally and politically charged, and yet there’s poignant love songs, too. All of it swinging and crashing from the wry and witty…to the dark and angry.
Some Quotes from "It's Later Than You Think"
“I saw coddled kids, indulged and obese
Relating to the world through computer screens
Oblivious to the demise of this fragile planet
And how the economy was killing it
And they were trying to expand it”
-from Grant’s Talking Blues
“There’s a pawn shop there where a flower shop was
And an antique place that just sells junk
Man, things get tight when times get tough
Before too long it got to be too much.
Oh, it’s a pitiful little town”
-from Pitiful Little Town
“I’m no church going, bulldozing, deal-closing real estate yo-yo
I’m no look-at-me S.O.B. gassing my Humvee to work
I’m no right winging, scotch drinking, golf swinging dick around this town
But them’s the men I find now and…things are about to get ugly”
-from Patriot Act
RADIO TIME
I’m stoked that my songs have been getting some airplay around the country. It’s difficult for an unsigned artist to get consideration from major stations, but we’re finding that if they give the record a listen…it’s getting played. Thanks to all of the following stations for taking the time, and giving me a shot.
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CMR Nashville
TN
Countrybear Lake
Placid FL KAFM Grand Junction
CO
KASU State
University AR KAXE Grand Rapids
MN
KBBI Homer
AK
KBOO Portland
OR
KBSU Boise
ID KCIE Dulce
NM
KCSS Turlock
CA
KDHX St. Louis
MO
KDNK Carbondale
CO
KEOS College St.
TX
KFOK Georgetown
CA KGHP Seattle
WA
KGLP Gallup
NM
KGLT Bozeman
MT
KJIV Reno
NV Eugene
OR
KMUN Astoria
OR
KMXT Kodiak
AK
KNBA Anchorage
AK
KNCC Elko
Nevada
KOPN Columbia
MO
KPFT Houston
TX
KPFZ Lakeport
CA
KRCB Rohnert Park
CA
KRCL Salt Lake City
UT
KRNN Juneau
AK
KRSH Santa Rosa
CA KRVM Eugene
OR
KSMF Ashland
OR KTEP El Paso
TX
KTHZ Reno
NV
KTRU Houston
TX
KUNR Reno
NV
KVNF Paonia
CO
KYOU San Francisco
CA KZGM Kabool
MO
KZMU Moab
UT KZSU Stanford
CA
Midnight Special,
Chicago IL
Radio Free Verona
VA
Semi-Twang Sacramento CA WBGU Bowling Green
OH
WEFT Champaign
IL
WERU E. Orland
ME
WETS Johnson City
TN WFDUStorrsCT
WFIT Melbourne
FL
WFJO Folkston
GA
WFMT
Chicago
WGWG N. & S.
Carolina
WHAY Whitley City
KY
WHJX Jacksonville
FL
WHUS Storrs
CT
WLRN Miami
FL
WMNF Tampa
FL
WMSRAuburn AL
WMUD Bridport
VT
WNCW Spindale
NC
WOJB Hayward
WI
WOUB Athens
OH
WOYS Appalachicola
FL WRFN Nashville
TN
WRRW Virginia Beach
VA
WRUW Cleveland
OH
WSCA Portsmouth
NH
WSJF St. Augustine
FL
WSLR Sarasota
FL
WSYC Shippensburg
PA
WTUF Thomasville
GA WUFT Gainesville
FL
WUFW Pensacola
FL
WUMN Boston
MA
WVTF Roanoke
VA
WWOZ New Orleans
LA
WXLV Schnecksville
PA
WXLR State College
PA
WYEP Pittsburgh
PA
WYOU Norfolk
VA
WZNZ Jacksonville
FL
International
Airplay Azilia Web
Radio CMR Nashville
TN
Country Music 24
Germany
Edge Radio
Australia
GoldRush 1440 New
Zealand
KABEL 105.0
Holland
KYOU San Francisco
CA Moozikoo Radio
Nashville TN
Radio Golden
Flash Radio Rucphen FM
Holland
Radio Six
International Carolina Roots & Rhythm
Denmark
Rootstime
Belgium
Tawa 88.5 New
Zealand
Terneuzen FM
Netherlands
Tiger FM
Denmark
World FM New
Zealandwww.folklure.tv
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If YOU have a station where you'd like to hear my music being played, let me know and I'll get to work on it!”
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I'm really glad to let you all know that we've just agreed a deal with a major broadcaster which will see AmericanaOK selected tunes on air, worldwide, 24/7 from January 2010. Watch this space for details.
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Thanks for helping me to support handicapped children!
Christian
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Warm regards
Christian
Editor & Journalist for Country Music Christian Lamitschka An der Pfingstweide 28 61118 Bad Vilbel Germany Phone: ++49 6101 544613 Mobil: ++49 171 6903352 Ch.Lamitschka@t-online.de Info@CountryMusic-Magazin.de www.MySpace.com/ChristianLamitschka
Hello from the Campsite... It was a pleasure to finally meet you in Orlando. Your music was wonderful!!!! We are loving that new CD. Hope to see you in Miami...gonna be at Pennekamp. Thanks for a great afternoon..and...Thanks for doin what you do! Ken and Mary
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
So it looks like Thanksgiving you will be back in town :) I love seeing all the tour dates man, it really makes me happy. I still have a CD waiting for you whenever you have a chance.
Grant/ saw you were online/ how's that pawnshop doing? heard from Connie May/she loved it/ good back and forth with her/ then she went into writing mode and automatic replies/oh well/ went up to Canada/the Winnipeg Folk Festival/got to share stage with Loudon Wainwright III and Arlo Guthrie/now that was a big hoot/back here scrounging around Nashville again/lining up the gigs/see how that all works out/released a CD of first cassette I ever put out back in '96/added two crazy new songs/hawking it/you know the story/one foot after the other/bound to end up somewhere/take care, buddy/keep Florida honest/oh yeah Tom
Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
