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Grayson Capps
Southern Rock / Blues / Folk Rock

GRAYSON CAPPS



New Orleans, Louisiana
United States

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Member Since7/21/2005
Band Websitewww.graysoncapps.com
Band MembersGrayson Capps: Vox & Guitar
Tommy Macluckie: Guitar
Josh Kerin: Bass
John Milham: Drums

Get your copy of Grayson Capps' ROTT 'N' ROLL at HYENArecords.com

Get your copy of Grayson Capps' SONGBONES at HYENArecords.com

Get your copy of Grayson Capps' WAIL & RIDE at HYENArecords.com

Get your copy of Grayson Capps' IF YOU KNEW MY MIND at HYENArecords.com

Get your copy of A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG at HYENArecords.com

InfluencesCan't be satisfied- Muddy Waters, Evil-Howlin' Wolf, Dust my Broom-Elmore James, Ghost riders in the sky- Vaughan Monroe, Angel from Montgomery- John Prine, Sixteen tons- Merle Travis, St. James Infirmary- traditional, Guilty- Randy Newman, Ramblin' Man- Hank Williams, Preachin' blues- Son House, Ain't no tellin- Mississippi John Hurt, Little red rooster- Howlin' Wolf, Hallelujah- Leonard Cohen, Loaded gun- Reveren Horton Heat, Fishin' blues- Taj Mahal, Ring of Fire- Johnny Cash, Columbus Stackade- trad., Windy and warm- trad., James Alley Blues- Rabbit Brown, Guitar Rag- Sylvester Weaver, Deep River Blues- Delmore Brothers, Champagne and reefer- Muddy Waters, Lamp trimmed and burnin'- Mississippi Fred McDowell, Give me back my wig- Hound Dog Taylor, Ol' Black Mattie- R.L. Burnside, God don't never change- Blind Willie Johnson, Barbara Allen- trd., Travelling Riverside blues- Robert Johnson, Yesterday is here- Tom Waits
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Grayson Capps performs "Mercy"
Grayson Capps 'Mercy' Video
Grayson Capps performs "Mercy"

Grayson Capps performs "Give It To Me"
Grayson Capps 'Give It To Me' Video
Grayson Capps performs "Give It To Me"

Record LabelHYENA Records - http://www.hyenarecords.com


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 16 2009 8:00P
Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo Liar’s Contest Dauphin Island, Alabama
Jul 17 2009 9:00P
The Reserve Laurel, Mississippi
Jul 18 2009 10:00P
Little Willie’s Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Jul 25 2009 8:00P
Brewton Music Festival Brewton, Alabama
Aug 1 2009 8:00P
Blue Sister House Concerts Jackson, Tennessee
Aug 7 2009 8:00P
Purple Fiddle Thomas, West Virginia
Aug 8 2009 7:00P
Musikfest Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Aug 9 2009 9:00P
World Cafe’ Live Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sep 4 2009 8:00P
Pirate’s Cove Josephine, Alabama
Sep 5 2009 8:00P
private party Mobile, Alabama
Sep 6 2009 6:00P
The River Pub Hurricane, Alabama
Sep 10 2009 8:00P
Sacred Roots Festival Carrollton, Georgia
Sep 11 2009 8:00P
Sacred Roots Festival Carrollton, Georgia
Sep 12 2009 8:00P
Original Highlands Festival Louisville, Kentucky
Sep 19 2009 8:00P
Norm’s River Roadhouse Nashville, Tennessee
Sep 24 2009 8:00P
Duck Pond at Dusk Brevard, North Carolina
Sep 25 2009 8:00P
Flat Rock Music Festival Flat Rock, North Carolina
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
Flat Rock Music Festival Flat Rock, North Carolina

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   About Grayson Capps
Grayson Capps Rott ‘N’ Roll. The title originated with Grayson Capps’ fans in New Orleans as an explanation of his music. Prostitutes, alcoholics, vagrants and drifters often inhabit the southern troubadour’s songs, while his live performances are ignited by sanctified Southern soul, howling back-country stomp and raucous roadhouse blues.. Slowly, but surely, the phrase spread from one city to the next as the definition of the Grayson Capps experience. For Grayson himself, Rott ‘N’ Roll has come to represent the state of mind needed to play uncompromising roots music as a means for survival in the Dirty South; the yin and yang between the debauchery of life on the road and the come down upon returning home.. Yet, as Grayson makes clear on “Back To The Country,” the album’s opening track, when Rott ‘N’ Roll is the credo, even the serenity of home means, "eating cornbread and raising hell."

Grayson Capps first discovered music in Alabama where he was born and raised. His father and friends would sit around the house getting drunk, telling stories and strumming acoustic guitars. They'd run down songs by Hank Williams, Tom T. Hall, Glenn Campbell and Woodie Guthrie to name but a few. The idealism of those "Cannery Row" experiences would come to define his outlook on the world. Heading off to Tulane University as a theater major on scholarship, Grayson also took up playing music. He'd form two bands that would have moderate national success--The House Levelers and Stavin' Chain--receiving acclaim in publications like Spin and USA Today and opening shows for Keith Richards, The Replacements and Crowded House. After graduating college, he took to squatting with friends in a string of abandoned houses on the outskirts of the Big Easy, stealing electricity, growing a garden and busking for whatever money was needed. Grayson recounts those times on a number of songs off his debut album, If You Knew My Mind. One of those memories even finds its way onto Rott ‘N’ Roll in the form of "Ike."

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With both bands ultimately breaking up, Grayson began performing as a solo artist. It was around this time that the young filmmaker Shainee Gabel (who befriended Grayson through a previous project they'd worked on together) discovered his father's unpublished novel Off Magazine Street. She fell in love with the story and set out to turn it into a film. Through a confluence of events, the movie A Love Song For Bobby Long, starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, was born. Grayson wrote four songs for the film, including the title track. He made a cameo appearance, as well. The story was based upon those early years with his father's friends back in Alabama. Bobby Long was, indeed, a real person. He died unceremoniously in a Johnson City, Tennessee V.A. hospital. All these years later, Grayson saw Bobby's life memorialized by Hollywood. Life as art or art as life?

Grayson Capps signed with Hyena Records just prior to the film's premier. He simultaneously released his aforementioned debut album, If You Knew My Mind, to rave reviews from publications like No Depression, Harp and American Songwriter. He set out touring, building his audience with marathon live shows that married his keen sense of storytelling to the glory of Southern rock. He made it to Europe for a string of shows. To this day his audience continues to swell on the other side of the Atlantic as witnessed by his recent sold out performance at The Paradiso in Amsterdam.

While on the road in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and changed everything. With the city in flux and the demands for a new album pressing down on him, Grayson moved to a converted farmhouse in Franklin, Tennessee with his longtime companion Trina Shoemaker (who co-produces Rott ‘N’ Roll) and his son Waylon. He recorded the album Wail & Ride. More touring followed, including performances at Bonnaroo and The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He'd also release a dusty collection of acoustic tracks from 2002 called Songbones as a limited edition set.

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All of this leads to Rott ‘N’ Roll, the definitive Grayson Capps document to date. Cut at his home studio in Franklin, it's the first album to solely feature his band, The Stumpknockers. Its predecessor, Wail & Ride, presented Grayson as a singer-songwriter, delicately framing his songs with pristine sound and a mix of studio musicians alongside his band-mates. Rott ‘N’ Roll, on the other hand, is about an attitude, a mood and a viewpoint, warts and all. Everything was tracked live and much of the final product is culled from first takes. The band, featuring Tommy “Ol’ Grover” MacLuckie on lead guitar, Josh Kerin on bass and John Milham on drums, would spend days at Grayson's farmhouse rehearsing during the afternoons and hanging out around a bonfire in his backyard at night. If the spirit moved them, they'd cut a track, overdub a guitar part, record a drunken chorus of rednecks who found their way to the sessions from all points south: "Gran Maw Maw" and "Big Ol' Woman" being case in point. If they weren't feeling inspired, they'd wander around the mountain that serves as Grayson's backyard, quite literally bonding with the Native American spirits. Rott ‘N’ Roll’s second song "Arrowhead" paints a picture of this idyllic setting.

Throughout the 13 tracks on Rott ‘N’ Roll, the listener gets a front row seat to the subversion. "Big Black Buzzard" circles with wicked hill country fervor that could make R.L. Burnside run for cover cover. "The Sun Don't Shine On Willy" is informed by Grayson’s gift for the Southern Gothic, with lyrics like: "He looks like old Boo Radley, he’s pale and his veins are blue, now he looks like one of them Hadleys after they’ve been drunk a month or two." Yet, there are also moments of clarity and tenderness. "Guitar" is perhaps Grayson's most autobiographical song to date. "Going Back To The Country," while full of hiss and swagger, addresses the search for truth and simplicity in a fast changing, often deceptive modern world. "The Fear Fruit Bearing Tree" is a biting piece of poetry that speaks truth to power in these times of corporate greed and government fear mongering. "Sock Monkey," marks guitarist Tommy MacLuckie's songwriting debut with a blast of country punk absurdity.

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Having drawn comparisons over his last few albums to the likes of Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt and Drive By Truckers, to name but a few, Rott ‘N’ Roll proves Grayson Capps an artist equally singular in vision as those to whom he’s compared. He doesn’t always paint the prettiest pictures or offer a gleamy white smile, but he does reach down deep to remind us of our own humanity.

Grayson’s own words illuminate it best:

“How many times must it be said? Though blood runs blue, you still think it’s red, because that’s how it appears when it hits oxygen. Our life is an illusion, and we create the confusion, so take a dose of seclusion to dilute the delusion. And hope that it’s not in vein that we look into the spheres of the fear-fruit bearing tree before we eat again.”

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ALEX TNT





Jul 15 2009 12:50 AM

thanks 4 the add!!
Ruby Jane





Jul 13 2009 4:45 PM

Hey, Im posting new videos today! New pictures too!

And TUESDAY July 14, the band will be filming a performance for the tv show at SAXON PUB! Be in the audience for the tv show 4:30 to 6!!!!!!!!
Ruby Jane
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Jul 13 2009 3:34 PM

MERCY.....is my song as if you wrote it for me. Keep rockin my rock n roll brother..xoxoxox NGIE
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Jul 13 2009 2:38 PM

Thanks for the Friendship!!

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Jul 11 2009 1:57 PM

Hello, after an unfortunate hiatus, the reasons for which are probably best not gone into here, we finally have some new music on the AUK MySpace site. For your listening pleasure this month we offer Nathan Oliver, Conrad Ford, the irrepressible Todd Snider and the delightful Beccy Owen. Don't forget too, for those of you within striking distance of Leicester, Electric Dustbowl 2 on 19 September.
~Lil Miss SaSsY~





Jul 10 2009 4:02 PM

Hi Grayson,

We sure do miss you here in Montgomery!! Happy belated 4th of July, hope you had a good one! Just dropping by to say hello. Have a SUPER weekend, have a cocktail for me.

Shannon
Nita





Jul 10 2009 7:15 PM

dig your sound! perfect blend of voice and soul! have a great weekend!
ken hutcheson





Jul 8 2009 10:38 PM

Thanks for being a friend!




best wishes,
ken
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Jul 7 2009 2:29 AM

Ciao  Grayson Capps  ,thank you for the add and the friendship.    
you are very good, I like your stupendous music a lot,and stupendous voice.
compliments  ..really.  you are one of my prefeitis
I feel great admiration for you,
talk to you soon, and all of my best wishes to always listen to your good music.
all the best.. from italy..and good week
neal
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Jul 6 2009 1:56 PM

jus show'n luv people,thanks for ur support
Oak Hill Rick,





Jul 6 2009 3:42 AM

Thanks for the ADD Brother !
Tim Cheatle





Jul 6 2009 11:21 AM

Hiya Grayson!
I've finally released my "Tim Cheatle Live" album!It includes desk recordings from when I opened for You and Geoff Muldaur @ The Borderline,London in 2006!
God Bless,
Tim.
Amanda





Jul 4 2009 1:49 PM

Way fun night at Moe's. My first time there and the first time I have seen you guys outside of the Cove. It was fantastic. Come back soon!
Will Scott





Jul 5 2009 6:52 PM

Will Scott's new album, GNAWBONE is here!!! The CD is available at CDBaby and other online retailers.







Over three years in the making, GNAWBONE, is Scott's fully-produced studio debut and features a crack team of hand-picked musicians as well as guest performances by Jan Bell, Jolie Holland, Samantha Parton, and Preacher Boy (the album's producer).
(stalwart) SC☮T





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Siryn





Jul 2 2009 12:14 AM

Thank you all! It was a great show in Tallahassee!

And well, Albany was beyond limits in *Fantastic*, especially knowing it was your fourth night playing.

You guys kicked it up such a notch, and played hard, it was amazing!

Grayson, well you already know, I hope. Tommy, it was cool chillin' and talking. John, I hope I got at least some good footage. And Josh, I always look forward to you messing with my head...

Hope you enjoyed your visit, wish it had been longer.

*Hugs*, til next time,
~Siryn
SAI





Jul 1 2009 3:46 AM

Ur music takes me to a happy place...very few things do that..:) thankyou! Besos!
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Jun 30 2009 3:12 PM

Dear Grayson~
What time do you play the cove on the 4th?
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Jun 29 2009 5:03 AM


Awesome Site ... Wishing you the best ... Thanks for the add !!!

"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
Jeffrey T.





Jun 29 2009 3:51 PM

Thanks for bein' a friend~
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Jessica Frech





Jun 24 2009 5:13 PM

Glad to have you as a friend! Hope to see you at a show sometime. Thanks for the support!
APE





Jun 23 2009 2:11 PM

Proud to have met ya'll esspecially josh keep rockin the tunes and maybe you'll come to wisconsin if I don't move to Georgia first. Loved your show in Macon when Jack Cadillac was there.I watched A love song for Bobby Long and it was beautiful.
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