Some people call him a preacher, others a poet, a singer, a guitar player, a redneck, but he declares: "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’ll tell you what, I have two beautiful children, a piece of land in Franklin, TN and more music on the way. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but songs are sung by those who continue to sing."

Grayson Capps was conceived in the back seat of a Pontiac Tempest in Brewton, Alabama, and first saw the light in a delivery room in Opelika, Alabama the morning of April 17, 1967. This was the year Woody Guthrie and Otis Redding died and the year of the summer of love. The sixties hit Alabama in the seventies and left poignant memories in Grayson's brain. The weekends are

what stick with him the most. "There was an array of eccentrics, channeling Cannery Row or Greenwich Village, coming in and out of my life at this time. They were writers, painters, musicians, vagrants and ne'er do wells reciting poetry, philosophizing, singing, dancing and drinking.

Grayson graduated from Tulane University in 1989.. While studying in New Orleans, Grayson started playing guitar and became a fulltime musician. He played all over the US and Europe. Capps was driven from his home in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina--where he’d lived for the past 20 years. No small tragedy to endure, Grayson responded stoically by keeping a stiff upper lip and his eye on the road. During this period of time he toured incessantly, including an appearance at Bonnaroo and two European tours. He then cut his follow up album, Wail & Ride . On the recording, he addresses the Katrina experience with the poignant song, “New Orleans Waltz.” He’d follow that release with a sparse acoustic collection he’d recorded while still living in New Orleans entitled Songbones . In 2008, Grayson offered up the first album with his touring band, The Stumpknockers, to wide critical acclaim. At the close of 2009, he’d also release his first DVD, a “live” solo acoustic performance from a concert at The P aradiso in Amsterdam.

Check him out at GraysonCapps.com

AMERICAN SONGWRITER Says : "Take the poetry of Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt, combine with Steve Earle’s edgy attitude and stir with a little cup of the bayou-blues (think Howlin’ Wolf) and you start to get a taste of Capps’s scrumptious gothic gumbo."

BLURT Says : “Although his distinctive sound is rootsy at its core, a Dixie-fried amalgam of twangrock,Memphis soul, and roadhouse blues, Capps' Tennessee-Williams-meets-Charles-Bukowski lyrical style is equal parts Southern Gothic and Los Angeles noir. His songs are literate, imaginative, and sometimes magical, his storytelling skills matched by an uncanny sense of musical history that will grow on you like kudzu vine."