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Grayson Capps
Southern Rock / Blues / Folk Rock

GRAYSON CAPPS



New Orleans, Louisiana
United States

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Last Login:  11/12/2009
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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 )
Nov 13 2009 7:00P
Pirate’s Cove Josephine, Alabama
Nov 14 2009 8:00P
The Reef Perdido Key
Nov 15 2009 7:00P
Callaghan’s Irish Social Club Mobile, Alabama
Nov 19 2009 9:00P
Parima "Acoustic Lounge" Burlington, Vermont
Nov 20 2009 8:00P
Blacked Eyed Sally’s Hartford, Connecticut
Nov 27 2009 10:00P
The Living Room New York City, New York
Nov 29 2009 7:00P
Tin Angel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dec 3 2009 9:00P
Le Chat Noir Augusta, Georgia
Dec 5 2009 8:00P
UU Coffee House Columbia, South Carolina
Dec 10 2009 8:00P
USA/Faulkner campus Fairhope, Alabama
Dec 11 2009 10:00P
D.B.A. New Orleans, Louisiana
Dec 12 2009 8:00P
Pirate’s Cove Josephine, Alabama
Dec 13 2009 7:00P
Callaghan’s Irish Social Club Mobile, Alabama
Jan 2 2010 9:00P
The Grey Eagle Asheville, North Carolina
Jan 6 2010 9:00P
Double Door Inn Charlotte, North Carolina
Jan 7 2010 8:00P
Berkeley Cafe Raleigh, North Carolina
Jan 8 2010 9:00P
The Garage Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Jan 14 2010 9:30P
Thirsty Hippo Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Jan 15 2010 8:00P
Pirate’s Cove Josephine, Alabama
Jan 16 2010 10:00P
Soul Kitchen Mobile, Alabama
Feb 11 2010 11:00P
D.B.A. New Orleans, Louisiana
Feb 13 2010 6:00P
The Bluegill Mobile, Alabama
Feb 14 2010 7:00P
Callaghan’s Irish Social Club Mobile, Alabama
Feb 27 2010 10:00P
Knuckleheads Kansas City, Missouri

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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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Kelly

Kelly Harville



Nov 12 2009 1:02 PM

I won't be able to make the Songwriter's fest at The Cove Friday night, but you better believe I'll see ya'll at The Reef on Saturday! I'm hoping that the fact that you will be over here will make more of them friend's of mine make the effort! Once they do, they'll be like me and won't be able to miss a show from then on!
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Nov 12 2009 1:02 PM

BIG UPDATE:
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THATS RIGHT, EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY COME OUT AND ENJOY THE BEST IN GOTHIC AND INDUSTRIAL MUSIC!

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Nov 12 2009 1:02 PM

SOREN GROTH aka NYERTUN

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Nov 10 2009 3:43 AM

Hiya, thanks for being a friend - I enjoyed visiting YourSpace :-) Keep it up
May your life be full of love, light and fun...
hugs SOREN - Beats for change -
NYERTUN
Michael Frucelli

Michael Frucelli



Nov 9 2009 3:37 PM

Thanks for coming my way, stop by and give a listen, comment on what you think
                                                                    Michael
 

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Nov 9 2009 12:53 AM

HEY GRAYSON
MANY THANKS FOR JOINING THIS FAN SITE FOR ONE OF AUSTRALIAS FINEST SINGER/SONGWRITERS
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Melinda

Melinda Taylor Kelly



Nov 8 2009 12:52 AM

So we all have to wait until December for you to come home!!! Can not wait to hear you play live again sooN!
Cowboy Alan

Cowboy Alan



Nov 8 2009 12:51 AM

Hi, and thanks for addin' me!
~MeanKit~T~

~MeanKit~T~



Nov 8 2009 12:51 AM

Hey Grayson~

   It's Shannon from NUMBER SIXTEEN. Hear you're going to be back in town!!  Not working there anymore but going to try and make the show!!!  HAPPY HOLIDAYS Grayson!!!

                  Shannon
Shhugi

Shhugi



Nov 8 2009 12:51 AM

HEy stumpknockers

Hope touring is working smoothly

really enjoyed the show at the strutting duck in AU

check out some music I do

I record myself, Fun Machine, and many more

hope to hear more from u guys soon

Peace

Shauna

Shauna



Nov 8 2009 12:51 AM

You guys had one hellova tough croud last night but ya sure sounded great! Thanks for sharing the vibe!! Sure appreciate it! Good luck on your travels!!!!
 
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Nov 8 2009 12:51 AM

.... just hello.... just because

always
maryjane
Porter Winfree

Porter Winfree



Nov 3 2009 9:49 PM

My new CD "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BABY" is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/porterwinfree2
Angel

Angel



Nov 3 2009 6:23 PM

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Joanna

Joanna Nacinovich



Nov 3 2009 4:06 PM

thanx 4 the add  
Dennis Wels

Dennis Wels



Nov 2 2009 2:24 PM

Hey Grayson,

I just released my new album called 'morning is cruel'.
Please have a listen at www.denniswels.com or on my profile and let me know if you like it.

Cheers,

Dennis
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Nov 1 2009 2:31 PM

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Oct 30 2009 1:24 PM

Hello, thank you for the friendship, it is a pleasure to welcome you!

Jan :)
john whitworth

john whitworth



Oct 29 2009 1:32 PM

Thanks for the add and again for breaking in the martin! hope y'all get back to the duck sooner than later
Siryn

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Oct 29 2009 1:32 PM

Unlimited possibilities are exposed with those we know, have heard, and seen of that are simple, poor, uneducated and raw. Their life is a warped fairytale with middle and upper class folks fascinated by the ideal that these stories could actually be true.

The primitive lyrics, music, and your bardic nature fill me with knowing this kind of unique talent didn’t die with Flannery O’ Connor!

Hope to see you soon!

Big Hugs my Friend,
~Siryn

Kelly Chapman

Kelly Chapman



Oct 29 2009 2:16 AM

Thank you Grayson Capps!
Wishing you continued Blessings!

Kelly
Jonny the Moonliner

Jonny the Moonliner



Oct 27 2009 2:26 AM

Hi ! I like your stile ! Keep it up !
I..ll hope you will visit sweden sometime !
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Oct 26 2009 6:53 PM

Thanks for the friendship!  Stay awesome!
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