Capps, Grayson – Heartbreak, Misery & Death

Royal Potato, CD, 2024

Heartbreak, Misery & Death is the seventh studio album by beloved Alabama-based troubadour Grayson Capps–joined by his long-standing guitarist Corky Hughes– turning his attention to 16 traditional and folk songs by artists ranging from Doc Watson and Jerry Jeff Walker to Randy Newman and Gordon Lightfoot. Introduced as a child to these timeless touchstones by his father, they’d catalyze Capps’ love for music at a young age, while informing the Southern Gothic vernacular that he’d go onto so eloquently explore and reimagine in his own body of work.