»Like a whiskey-soaked, back alley poet sired by Tom Waits and Robert Johnson, Capps' stripped-down sound is rooted in the dark side of the Delta.« - Razor Magazine

»He’s f*cking awesome!« – Scarlett Johansson

Capps är en låtskrivare och sångare från New Orleans med en sällsynt förmåga att kombinera poetiska, uttrycksfulla texter, ommedelbara melodier och rå urkraft. Här handlar det lika mycket om oslipad blues som om väl utmejslad americana. Visst hör man ekon av artister som Townes Van Zandt, JJ Cale and Steve Earle, men Capps har ändå en helt egen stil.

Grayson Capps debutalbum, »If You Knew My Mind«, producerades av Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Queens of the Stone Age och Whiskeytown).

Grayson Capps gjorde merparten av filmmusiken till och medverkade i »A Love Song For Bobby Long« med John Travolta och Scarlett Johansen.



"Here's the back-story, as short as I can make it. Capps is a New Orleans musician. Actually he's from Alabama originally, and back in Alabama right now until they can find out where his house floated off to. While playing a club in New Orleans, he was “discovered» by a documentary filmmaker. Filmmaker says she wants to eventually make a feature film, based in New Orleans. Capps' daddy wrote a book that was never published. Capps gives it to filmmaker. Filmmaker falls in love with book. Book becomes a movie, “Lovesong for Bobby Long«, with John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson. Capps is asked to write the soundtrack for the movie. He does. He gets lots of exposure as a result.

Unfortunatly, you can't eat exposure. But it has given him a bit of credibility, just not a lot of money.

If You Knew My Mind was recorded on the cheap. Grayson traded landscaping services for studio time. The albnum features several songs that were written for the movie. Since the movie is loosely based on actual events in Grayson Capps childhood, you don't need to have ever seen the movie to get those songs. They all stand up on their own merit.

This disc starts off with the autobiographical “Get Back Up” which documents Capps living in an abandoned Row house on South Front Street in New Orleans, stealing electricity, water, and telephone services, all while struggling to make a living as a musician. There's a slow groove to the song. Elements of John Lee Hooker, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and even Tony Joe White can be heard. Capps music is funky, swampy, rocking, delta.blues in the finest tradition. Music to shake your ass to. Music to sit and drink a beer and commiserate with. Music for the soul, the gut, and the ass.

The guitar driven “I Can't Hear You» sounds like it might have fit onto ZZ Tops First Album. “A Love Song for Bobby Long« proves that Capps can turn down and tell a story just as well as he can rock out. It's an album filled with emotion. One man fighting against the world, fighting against cheating girlfriends & wives, fighting with a desperation and passion, fighting to keep his head above water, financially, emotionally, and spiritually. Fighting just to fight, struggling because struggling is all he's ever known and is they only thing that feels real anymore.it all makes sense. He's the one most familiar with the local, the characters, and life in that area of the country. There's so much good stuff on this album. Capps voice is a rich, warm, expressive instrument. His guitar playing, whether acoustic, electric, resonator, slide, or fingerpicking is equally as expressive."
- Twangzine
It's the first album I've heard in years that got me excited about music again.