You don’t easily forget a concert featuring the Southern troubadour and storyteller Grayson Capps. Just ask those who saw him and guitar virtuoso Corkey Hughes when they visited Norway for the first time in 15 years in the fall of 2025. Now they’re coming to Dark Season Blues! Joining them on stage will be Eskil Aasland (drums) from Spoonful of Blues, who played with Grayson 15 years ago and resumed their collaboration last year.
Grayson was born in Alabama in 1967 and moved around the state with his bohemian parents before settling in New Orleans. There, he earned a degree in theater studies from the university. It was also there that Grayson’s musical career took shape, first with the trash-folk band The House Levellers. He made his debut as a recording artist under his own name in June 2005, two months before Katrina flooded half the city.
By this time, Grayson had met his life partner, Trina Shoemaker, who is now one of the world’s most sought-after sound engineers and producers. She has produced artists such as Emmylou Harris, Queens of the Stone Age, Daniel Lanois, and Sheryl Crow, and became the first female producer to win a Grammy in the rock category for the latter’s debut album.
Grayson has released a number of albums with various band lineups and as a solo artist. His song “Drink a Little Poison (4 U Die)” appears on the original soundtrack to the HBO series “Tremé” in a brass band version. His most recent release to date, with the uplifting title “Heartbreak, Misery & Death” (2024), features 16 forgotten or overlooked songs from “the great American songbook.” These songs have served as the soundtrack to Grayson’s own upbringing, which is depicted in the film “A Love Song For Bobby Long,” starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson. The film is based on a biographical novel of the same title, written by Grayson’s father, Ronnie Capps. Grayson, of course, is responsible for much of the soundtrack.
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