Grayson Capps

A literate and impassioned songwriter whose characters are often caught barely hanging on to the edges of American life, Grayson Capps is a bit like a New Orleans version of Tom Waits, albeit more of a roots rocker and bluesman in actual musical execution. While the music industry places him under the Americana umbrella, Capps has proven his aesthetic to be much deeper and wider than that classification would allow. From his days in the rootsy folk thrash of the House Levelers and blues trashers Stavin Chain while still in college to emerging as a gravel-voiced Southern Coast ...