What Grayson Capps brings to country music, if you can call it that, is a real sense of danger. From the first of “Highway 42,” a tune that jangles like a loose fender, I was thinking about those long-haired rebels of the 1970s — Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe. Guys who would just as soon play a song for you as pull a knife, it seemed.
In keeping, “John the Dagger” is all neon-lit menace, a track with a beat that moves as precipitously as the saloon door swinging behind a dust-covered stranger. “No Definition” boasts a torrid series of guitar improvisations. But don’t go in thinking this is music made for a bar fight. Capps’s album isn’t without emotional, and musical, complexity — from the boozy swing of “Coconut Moonshine” to “Yes You Are,” a shattering song about accepting what life doesn’t give you.
(From Nick DeRiso’s post on No Depression about Grayson Capps)
“Jane’s Alley Blues” | Grayson Capps by Royal Potato Family
Grayson Capps is touring in support of his acclaimed new album, The Lost Cause Minstrels. The upcoming dates are:
July 20 | The Grey Eagle | Asheville, NC (*solo acoustic) BUY Advance Tickets
July 21 | Duck Pond at Dusk | Brevard, NC (*solo acoustic)
July 22 | Shenanigan’s | Dahlonega, AL (*solo acoustic)
July 28 | Paradise Bar & Grill | Pensacola, FL
July 29 | Cypress Creek | Waycross, GA
July 30 | Bradfordville Blues Club | Tallahassee, FL | BUY Advance Tickets
August 4 | Woodwalk Gallery & Events Barn | Egg Harbor, WI (*solo acoustic)
August 6 | Lumberjam Festival | Hayward, WI (*solo acoustic) | BUY Advance Tickets
August 7 | Farmer’s Inn | Kirkland, IL (*solo acoustic)
August 12 | Moonlight on the Mountain | Birmingham, AL (*solo acoustic)
August 13 | Eddie’s Attic | Atlanta, GA (*solo acoustic) | BUY Advance Tickets
August 18 | Blue Canoe | Tupelo, MS (*solo acoustic)
August 19 | Fret’s Live Music & Eatery | Pascagoula, MS
August 20 | Arts & Crabs Fest at Lake Charles Civic Center | Lake Charles, LA
August 27 | The Reef | Pensacola, FL
September 2 | Moe’s | Daphne, AL
September 3 | Pirate’s Cove | Josephine, AL
September 4 | Callaghan’s | Mobile, AL
September 9 | Blue Moon Farms | Silver Hill, AL
September 15 | Rooster’s Blues House | Oxford, MS
September 16 | Rooster’s Blues House | Tuscaloosa, AL
September 17 | Pirate’s Fest | Orange Beach, AL
September 23 | Purple Fiddle | Thomas, WV
September 24 | PJ Kelly’s | Clarksburg, WV
September 30 | Nightown | Easton, MD | BUY Advance Tickets
October 4 | Hill Country BBQ | Washington, DC
October 5 | Burlap & Bean | Philadelphia, PA
October 6 | Sullivan Hall | New York, NY
October 7 | Hungry Tiger | Manchester, CT
October 8 | Nectar’s | Burlington, VT
October 9 | West Kortwright Centre | East Meredith, NY | BUY Advance Tickets
October 12 | TBA | Nashville, TN
October 16 | Callaghan’s | Mobile, AL
October 22 | Bennie’s Boom Boom Room | Hattiesburg, MS
November 11 | Barking Legs Theater | Chattanooga, TN
November 12 | Wayfarer Music Hall | Monroe, GA (*solo acoustic)
November 18 | The Downtown Tavern | Gadsden, AL
