Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, John Prine, Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry, Steve Earle, Terry Allen, Hugh Roche and Dave Hickey
“There’s a dark new day that’s dawning
As we edge closer to the brink
Well it’s early in the morning
But it’s later than you think”
-from "It’s Later Than You Think" on Grant's new cd released in April 2008
What Other Folks Think About Grant's Music...
“Grant is on a roll here, painting evocative pictures of the New American landscape. Writers like this are hard to come by. I really like this album.”
Gurf Morlix
This is one of the best produced records I’ve heard in a long time. And Grant is a master songwriter, who uses words like a Kerouac style-novelist, growling in a steady stream of consciousness, painting dark pictures of an America whose best days appear to be behind her.”
Ron Johnson, The Florida Times Union
“Listening to this record was like taking a long walk down a gravel road with an authentic Leftneck.”
Roy Zimmerman
Sounds Like
If Kitty Wells and Lefty Frizell's daughter married John Prine, and they had a son that married the daughter of Kris Kristopherson and Lucinda Williams, and they were to have a child----it would probably make music kinda like Grant Peeples
In 1995 Grant Peeples divested himself of what he owned in America and moved to a remote Caribbean island off the coast of Nicaragua. After eleven years of official ex-patriot status, he sold the small hotel he had built there and returned to his native North Florida. And ever since, he’s been writing and singing songs about what he found and faced upon his return home.
Released in April of 2008, Peeples’ “It’s Later Than You Think” (his second record since his homecoming) speaks in a clean but brooding Americana sound. He’s a finger-in-your-eye songwriter. Biting, edgy and irreverent. Singing his thinking-man’s songs in an articulate twang and growl. Part Prine, part McMurtry, part Che Guevara. Environmentally and politically charged, and yet there’s poignant love songs, too. All of it swinging and crashing from the wry and witty…to the dark and angry.
Some Quotes from "It's Later Than You Think"
“I saw coddled kids, indulged and obese
Relating to the world through computer screens
Oblivious to the demise of this fragile planet
And how the economy was killing it
And they were trying to expand it”
-from Grant’s Talking Blues
“There’s a pawn shop there where a flower shop was
And an antique place that just sells junk
Man, things get tight when times get tough
Before too long it got to be too much.
Oh, it’s a pitiful little town”
-from Pitiful Little Town
“I’m no church going, bulldozing, deal-closing real estate yo-yo
I’m no look-at-me S.O.B. gassing my Humvee to work
I’m no right winging, scotch drinking, golf swinging dick around this town
But them’s the men I find now and…things are about to get ugly”
-from Patriot Act
RADIO TIME
I’m stoked that the new record has been getting some airplay around the country. It’s difficult for an unsigned artist to get consideration from major stations, but we’re finding that if they give the record a listen…it’s getting played. Thanks to all of the following stations for taking the time, and giving me a shot.
WFIT Melbourne, Florida
KPFT Houston, Texas
WSLR Sarasota, Florida
KTRU Houston, Texas
WWOZ New Orleans, Louisiana
WUFT Gainsville, Florida
KEOS College Station, Texas
WOYS Apalachicola, Florida
WNCW Spindale, North Carolina
WZNZ Jacksonville, Florida
KTHX Reno, Nevada
WMNF Tampa, Florida
WLRN Miami, Florida
WYEP Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Roots and Rhythm Denmark
Radio Golden Flash Holland
Azilia Web Radio
Rootstime Belgium
If YOU have a station where you'd like to hear the record being played, let me know and I'll get to work on it!”
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Yes, vote early --- and vote every day! How'd it go last night?
Looks pretty soggy at home - Perry is flooded. It needed a little "washin' out", but the flooding is pretty bad in town. Our place is okay, the water hole finally has some water back in it. I read that Wakulla is pretty flooded too; folks had to move out of St. Marks and Sopchoppy. Tallahassee has a lot of roads closed, under water....
Hope you're having a great time in Nashville! are they listening this time? Joy
Hey Grant and Friends, I hope everybody heard you on www. radiofreenashville. org last night, and will get on www. nimradio. com between now and next Tuesday night at midnight, to vote for you to be in the next Top. We can each vote once a day. I will! Good luck in Nashville! Joy
Grant, you've been work-in hard.....thanks for having me aboard.............. .........Glad your in Florida.................,
Watch out! for deadly sharks, snakes, and gators. kNOw WoRRy!, most of the wild Black Bears and Florida Panthers have been lost to Unleashed DEVILopers and Greezy Politicians, but there's still a few Crazy Natives and Indians running around! Hope you enjoy the music and make it to one of my performances.
Grant, you've been work-in hard.....thanks for having me aboard.............. .........Glad your in Florida.................,
Watch out! for deadly sharks, snakes, and gators. kNOw WoRRy!, most of the wild Black Bears and Florida Panthers have been lost to Unleashed DEVILopers and Greezy Politicians, but there's still a few Crazy Natives and Indians running around! Hope you enjoy the music and make it to one of my performances.
Hi Grant! Thanks so much for helping us out with our inaugural open mic session at Fishbonz in Thomasville! We couldn't have done it without you! Really looking forward to the house concert on Saturday!--Donna M.
So me and a friend of mine have been working on an original to put on the demo. I'm pretty stoked about it. We go into the studio on Sunday afternoon to record. Keep looking out. I'm going to try and get it uploaded on myspace and have my own music page. Talk to you later!
Grant, thanks for the kind words!! I am diggin' your songs too my friend. I would really like to get together as well. Keep in touch and we'll work it out. Shack
Grant, got on MySpace just to come to your page and listen to some of yur songs. Been a rough day and it really makes me feel a whole lot better listening to your music. Keep writing and I think people will keep on listening.
