Grant Peeples autobiography begins at the beginning, like so:

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 desk when Khrushchev fired a missile at us. I hunted, fished, rode horses, read books about Daniel Boone and Abraham Lincoln. By the time I was twelve I had learned the words to every Roger Miller song. Then I grew some hair, raced motorcycles, smoked pot, threw a cast net for mullet in the wee hours, scribbled a lot of bad poetry. Kissed a girl or two.

Life was linear . . .

Grant has been described by Bobby Braddock as a guy who "sounds like (John) Prine, but with a Southern bent" which is fairly high praise in our book. Gurf Morlix also said of Grant, specifically of Grant's songwriting on his latest CD "Pawnshop"

"Grant is on a roll here, painting evocative pictures of the New American Landscape. Writers like this are hard to come by."

All of which is by way of leading up to one thing. You won't want to be missing Grant Peeples' show at the Dixie Theater October 30, 2009. The Dixie is a great venue for the kind of act Peeples' provides...a real honest to goodness talented singer-songwriter who can connect with his audience and who, along with his audience, will benefit from the intimate setting which the Dixie provides.

Mark it on your calendar, in whatever color you use for "Don't Miss This!"

Hear some samples of Grant's latest work here.