Grant Peeples - Prior Convictions: Digital Edition (2019)
BAND/ARTIST: Grant Peeples
- Title: Prior Convictions: Digital Edition
- Year Of Release: 2012/2019
- Label: Gatorbone Records
- Genre: Folk Rock, Americana, Singer-Songwriter
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:37:16
- Total Size: 191 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Things Have Changed (feat. Ruthie Foster)
02. Patriot Act (For Dave Hickey)
03. Gunning for the Buddha
04. Market Town
05. Road to Damascus
06. Sad Naked Woman
07. Last Night I Dreamed in Spanish
08. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
09. The Last Honest Man
Having abandoned music making for a decade or so, Florida native Grant Peeples has been back with a bit of a bang in the last few years with this new one being the 4th album in the last five years. With gritty artistic prowess, he weaves story after compelling story around a flock of fallen characters, leaving listeners with feelings of disgust, shame, even longing. Known for his strong-statement songs that can shake one to the core, Peeples does not disappoint here on this ten-song, Gurf Morlix-produced effort. There’s no mistaking the distinctive, raspy North Florida drawl and conversational clipped phrasing that’s Peeples’ vocal delivery, and he blends like butter with blues maven Ruthie Foster on the opener – a smooth late-night take of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” Another cover – Myshkin’s “Market Town” – is arguably his best track on the album. It’s a remarkable song with unexpected effect on an intent listener, sung without malice, adding to its power. “Last Night I Dreamed in Spanish” could easily find its way onto Willie Nelson’s next record, with the wistful accordion accompaniment and its vivid slice-of-Nicaraguan-life lyrics: “There was an ox drawn cart on a cobblestone street/An open air market, flies buzzing round the meat/And church bells ringing like they were calling out for me.” But this picture-ready moment in time is snatched away by the stripped-down production and in-your-face message that is the next track, “N***er Lover.” The songwriter takes us back 40 years to his school days in newly integrated Tallahassee, and deftly shows the transition from blatant racial hatred to the more subtle and “acceptable” form he sees today. Peeples’ social observations are keen and often brutal, making his story-telling some of the best there is in folk and Americana today.
01. Things Have Changed (feat. Ruthie Foster)
02. Patriot Act (For Dave Hickey)
03. Gunning for the Buddha
04. Market Town
05. Road to Damascus
06. Sad Naked Woman
07. Last Night I Dreamed in Spanish
08. Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns
09. The Last Honest Man
Having abandoned music making for a decade or so, Florida native Grant Peeples has been back with a bit of a bang in the last few years with this new one being the 4th album in the last five years. With gritty artistic prowess, he weaves story after compelling story around a flock of fallen characters, leaving listeners with feelings of disgust, shame, even longing. Known for his strong-statement songs that can shake one to the core, Peeples does not disappoint here on this ten-song, Gurf Morlix-produced effort. There’s no mistaking the distinctive, raspy North Florida drawl and conversational clipped phrasing that’s Peeples’ vocal delivery, and he blends like butter with blues maven Ruthie Foster on the opener – a smooth late-night take of Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed.” Another cover – Myshkin’s “Market Town” – is arguably his best track on the album. It’s a remarkable song with unexpected effect on an intent listener, sung without malice, adding to its power. “Last Night I Dreamed in Spanish” could easily find its way onto Willie Nelson’s next record, with the wistful accordion accompaniment and its vivid slice-of-Nicaraguan-life lyrics: “There was an ox drawn cart on a cobblestone street/An open air market, flies buzzing round the meat/And church bells ringing like they were calling out for me.” But this picture-ready moment in time is snatched away by the stripped-down production and in-your-face message that is the next track, “N***er Lover.” The songwriter takes us back 40 years to his school days in newly integrated Tallahassee, and deftly shows the transition from blatant racial hatred to the more subtle and “acceptable” form he sees today. Peeples’ social observations are keen and often brutal, making his story-telling some of the best there is in folk and Americana today.
Year 2019 | Country | Folk | Rock | FLAC / APE
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