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Grant Peeples

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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 my songs have 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
Midnight Special Music Hour Chicago
WSJF St. Augustine Florida
KPFZ Lakeport Ca
KYOU San Francisco
WGWG North and South Carolina
KUNR Reno
WRFN Nashville
WSLR Sarasota Florida
WGWG 88. 3fm North & South Carolina
WFJO Folkston GA
WNCW Spindale NC
WHJX Jacksonville Florida
KTRU Houston Texas
WFMT Chicago
KNCC Elko Nevada
WWOZ New Orleans
WUFT Gainsville Florida
KEOS College StationTexas
WOYS Apalachicola Florida
KRCB Rohnert Park California
WNCW Spindale North Carolina
WZNZ Jacksonville Florida
CMR Nashville Tennessee
KTHX Reno Nevada
WMNF Tampa Florida
WUMV Boston
KJIV Reno
WFMT Chicago
WLRN Miami Florida
WYEP Pittsburgh
WUFW Pensacola Florida
WSCA Portsmouth New Hampshire
KZMU Moab Utah
Terneuzen FM Netherlands
Moozikoo Radio Nashville Tennessee
Roots and Rhythm Denmark
Radio Golden Flash
Azilia Web Radio
Rootstime Belgium
Radio Six International Carolina
Tawa 88. 5 New Zealand
GoldRush 1440 New Zealand
Country Music 24 Germany
Radio Rucphen FM Holland
KABEL 105.0 Holland
Tiger FM Denmark
CMR Nashville
KYOU San Francisco
WorldFM New Zealand
Edge Radio Australia
Country Music 24 Germany
www. Folklure.tv
If YOU have a station where you'd like to hear my music being played, let me know and I'll get to work on it!” ”
This is a podcast from a live interview/performance on KPFT in Houston on Laurapalooza Show with Laura Slavin. . http://www.kpft.org/multimeida/podcasts/kpft_011.mp3 ..
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Member Since: 11/14/2006
Band Website: http://www.grantpeeples.com
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Visit grantpeeples.com to hear samples of the New CD 'Pawnshop"



THIS I$ THE NEW DEAL

Two years ago I saw a Telecaster guitar I wanted on line. I sent $1200 to a guy I had never met or spoken to, and he sent me the guitar. That got me thinking: Why can’t I just do that with my records? Why do I want to pay Amazon.com 55 percent? Or CD Baby (a great company, I should say) 35 percent? If I trusted that guy to send me the guitar, why don’t I just trust people to send me payment for some songs they want to have?

So, that’s what I’m doing. This is the New Deal. If you would like one of my records, just email me at [email protected] Tell me which record you want and give me an address to send it to. And that’s what I’ll do. I’ll include an envelope addressed back to me. Once you get the CD you stick a check or some cash in that envelope, put a stamp on it, and send it to me. Total cost, including shipping, is $15.00.

For booking information write: [email protected]

Music available at:

Grant on Amazon

Grant on Itunes

Grant on CD Baby

Influences: 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

Record Label: Sopchoppy Sounds
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Roland Stowne Interview With Grant Peeples

Grant Peeples and the Roland Stowne Interview...... ..The Roland Stowne interview with Grant took place over several days in early January.   This is the first installment.   Roland Stowne is an indep...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Grants Review of 2008

On May 2 of this year, my 51st birthday, I released my current record and launched (did I say 'launched?') a music career.  A few CDs were mailed-out to some radio stations.   Some folks bought some. ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:33:00 GMT

"Sunshine State" My entry to the new State Song contest

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Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:38:00 GMT

How this came to be

I was born in ....Tallahassee...., 1957.  It was there I learned to crawl and walk and talk and ride a bike, tie my shoes.  I went to school and learned to read and spell badly, to crawl under the des...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:14:00 GMT