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That year, S&C won the prestigious Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival singing competition. Craig is a four-time award win- ner in the finger-style guitar competition. In 2011 and 2015, S&C were finalists in the Tuc- son Folk Festival songwriter contest. If you love folk music infused with ele-


ments of jazz,Tin Pan Alley and rock, Green is for you. Lush harmonies and an overall positive and downright happy album.


-Michael Buffalo Smith


The original album was produced by Grammy Award-winning engineer Trina Shoemaker (Brandi Carlile, Indigo Girls), and she re- turned to the board to oversee the re-master- ing process for the album’s first ever release on vinyl. Initially issued in conjunction with the


major motion picture A Love Song For Bobby Long starring Scarlett Johansson and John Travolta, the album features a song of the same title which was actually the basis for the title of the film. The movie was adapted from the novel Off Magazine Street, written by Grayson’s father Everett Capps. Of course my personal favorite on the


Grayson Capps If You Knew My Mind 10th Anniversary Edition (Royal Potato)


When this album was originally released, I


was publishing Gritz Magazine, and I re- member writing a five-star review of it. Now, ten years later, it sounds as fresh as ever, es- pecially on this double-album vinyl issue, re- leased in conjunction with Record Store Day. I do love the convenience of MP3 and CD’s, but for the warmth of the music, I prefer un- compressed, analog sounds on vinyl. It’s like tube amps vs. solid state - there’s no compari- son. The New Orleans based Capps is a song-


writers-songwriter, a man who can tell a story or spin a tale about a character in four min- utes that you will never forget. The set in- cludes three previously unreleased bonus tracks, including Grayson’s stunning version of the roots standard “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning.” It also includes an essay written by Grayson addressing the pe- riod in his life when he recorded the album.


record is “Love Song for Bobby Long,” but there are a great many goodies on the record, including “If You Knew My Mind,” a nice song about the birth of his daughter and “Get Back Up,” which talks about living in an abandoned house on the outskirts of New Or- leans are both excellent. So is “Slidell,” an story song on par with the best writings of John Prine, Tom Waits or Bruce Springsteen. Grayson’s songwriting is inspired by the American southern literary tradition, and he often writes about the South and its lifestyle and people.While it is true that one can hear a wide array of influences in the music of Grayson Capps, he remains a one of a kind writer and performer. Since this album first dropped ten years ago, Capps has come to be known as one of the South’s finest and most creative and compelling songwriters and en- tertainers.


- Michael Buffalo Smith


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