I first heard Grayson Capps on my favorite radio station WQNR - 99.9 - The Rock out of Auburn, Alabama. WQNR won the Album Mix Station of the Year for 2004, the College Station of the Year for 2005 and 2006, and Wildman Steve won Program Director of the Year for 2006 as well during the New Music Weekly Awards in Hollywood, California. It's a great station. Give in a listen if you're in the area.

Anyway, that is where I first heard Grayson and I liked what I heard. After that, I heard him in the Movie "Love Song For Bobby Long" (I recommend the movie too) and I got hooked a little more. He is an Alabama native heavily influenced by years spent in New Orleans.

So, I bought two of his CDs, and they are in heavy rotation at home and on the road. "If You Knew My Mind" has several songs from the movie soundtrack. "Wail & Ride" is a 2006 release. He has a raw, soulful voice with a gritty edge and his songs often reflect a little on the dark side of life or relationships.

He has been described in many ways so I won't attempt to label him. Here is what he say's about himself:

"I write songs which have the voice of dead prophets masquerading as town drunks screaming 'look at us we're pretty, too!' I've been playing guitar and singing for nearly twenty years now. I've played theaters, festivals, radio shows, t.v. shows, whiskey-beer crusted barrooms, living rooms, and camp fires. Some people call me a preacher others a poet, a singer, a guitar player, a landscaper, but I am only an actor strutting and fretting across the stage. I still have to use a shovel. I still have to dig in the dirt. But, I tell you what, I have a beautiful daughter named Sadie, a house on Music St., and my first solo record coming out in the spring. Bobby and Fred are dead, but my father is alive and well in Alabama about to have a novel published. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but songs are still sung by those who continue to sing."

Grayson has a very interesting website.
Check him out:
Grayson's Website Link

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