Artist: Grayson Capps
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Wail and Ride
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
If You Knew My Mind
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
A literate and ardent songster whose vocal characters ar ofttimes caught scarcely hanging on at the edges of American aliveness, Grayson Capps is a bit like a New Orleans-version of Tom Waits, albeit more of a roots rocker in real musical execution. Capps was innate April 17, 1967 in Opelika, AL the logos of a Baptist sermoniser and an Auburn University student. After his birth, both of his parents concluded up existence teachers in Brewton, AL. They touched to Fairhope, AL when Capps was in the 7th grad, and it was at that place that he developed a womb-to-tomb fascination with theater, finally earning a fond learnedness to Tulane University in New Orleans to study acting, graduating with a BFA in 1989. But performing wasn't the only thing Capps studied at Tulane. He likewise erudite to play guitar and joined a band called the House Levellers, wHO specialized in what the striation called "flail folk." The grouping signed with Tipitina Records in 1990 when Capps was barely 21-years-old, and following a whirlwind and musically quite successful year, Capps left the dance band, choosing to remain and do his nursing home in New Orleans. He started a new dance band with John Lawrence called Stavin Chain and they sign-language with Thomas Ruf's Germany-based Ruf Records in 1998, cathartic a single album, simply called Stavin Chain, in 1999, earlier disbanding. Capps met Shainee Gabel, a young music director world Health Organization was filming a documental called Anthem, and she terminated up using several of his songs in the finished celluloid. Capps had told Gabel about an unpublished novel his father, Everett Capps, had written and once Gabel read it, she knew she had to plastic film it. She wrote a screenplay and the end termination was the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long, which featured Capps in a piece part and as well used quaternity of his songs as constituent of the soundtrack. The regionally released Grayson Capps album appeared in 2005 on Hyena Records followed by a solo debut proper, If You Knew My Mind, by and by that same year. During this time Capps continued to make his base in New Orleans just the Katrina disaster at summer's fill up in 2005 forced him to leave the city, at least temporarily. A second solo project, Howl & Ride, also on Hyena, came out in 2006. Ruf Records re-released Stavin' Chain in 2007.
