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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT GRANT
No performer holds a crowd like Grant Peeples…
—Barry White, S. Florida Folk Network
[Code To Live By is] the most explicitly leftist album I’ve come across in far too long.
—Robert Christgau, And It Don’t Stop (Substack)
He’s the musician most closely walking in Woody Guthrie’s footsteps
—Greg Johnson, The Blue Door OKC
Patriots, priests, pole-dancing for god, and the politics of belief. Grant Peeples’ music isn’t easy, but it’s real as hell, and beautiful t’boot.
—Americana Gazette
He’s the Woody Guthrie of the New Millennium
—Larry Newman, WSCA Portsmouth NH
Bio
A self-proclaimed “LeftNeck,” and “tree-hugger that watches NASCAR,” Grant Peeples is a folk singer in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Billy Bragg. His concerts ring with laughter and applause and moments of contemplative silence. Stage 33 (Bellows Falls VT) described him as “darkly hilarious and deadly serious, often at the same time." The late American author and journalist T.D. Allman cited “the humor, compassion and wisdom of his songs,” and their “unflinching social insight and cultural acuity.”
Grant lived as an expatriate on a small island off the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua for eleven years where he installed the island's first flushing toilet, rescued sea turtles, and built an eco-resort and dive shop. Upon his return to the US in 2006, he experienced a homeland whose changes bordered on futuristic. Much of what he writes about today is informed by that experience.
He has produced 14 studio albums of mostly original songs, 5 of which were produced by iconic Roots producer/performer Gurf Morlix. His 2023 release A Murder of Songs rated #16 on No Depression’s Readers Poll of theTop 20 Roots Music Albums of the Year. He is currently touring in support of a new release, Code to Live By, which the Dean of American Rock Critics, Robert Christgau, praised with his highest "A" rating, and called it “the most explicitly leftist album I’ve come across in far too long.”
Grant tours coast to coast and is a repeat performer at Kerrville Folk Festival, the Woody Guthrie Festival, Antlers & Acorns Songwriters Festival, Moccasin Creek Festival, and The Florida Folk Festival, among others. FolkForum.nl described him “…a pure storyteller, in the best American folk tradition…” and his show “…one of those gems that you will remember for a long time..."
Music video from the 2026 release
Code to Live By:
“Some Times”
This song was written by Mary Gauthier & Vince Gill.
They gave special permission to Grant to perform & record this song before they did.
Watch the video on YouTube:
A Few Things About Grant Peeples
His shows are a roiling mix of funny stuff and not-funny stuff. He doesn’t do a lot of lo-ooove songs, but when he does, it’s liable to break your heart.
He is credited with eleven studio albums, five of which were produced by Gurf Morlix, iconic Americana/Roots producer for Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mary Gauthier, Robert Earl Keen, Slaid Cleaves and many more. He has published three books of poetry, and broadcast a series of multimedia extended videos made during the pandemic called “Clay Tablets.”
He lived on a small island off the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua for eleven years. There he installed the island’s first flushing toilet, rescued sea turtles, and built an eco-resort and dive shop. When he returned to the US in 2006, he returned to a homeland whose changes bordered on futuristic. Much of what he writes about today is informed by that experience
A Few of the Places Grant Has Played
WUWF Radio LIve, Pensacola FL
The Junction, Tallahassee FL
Gamble Rogers Festival, St. Augustine FL
Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Okemah OK
Kerrville Folk Festival, Kerrville TX
Moccasin Creek Music Festival, Effingham IL
Antlers & Acorns: Boone Songwriters Festival NC
Ramblin Roots Festival, The Netherlands
The LUX, The Netherlands
Cafe de Amer, The Netherlands
Roots on the Rails, AZ
Godfrey Daniels Live Music & Listening Room, PA
30A Songwriter’s Festival, FL
The Triple Door, Seattle WA
Woody Guthrie Festival, OK
Word of South Festival FL
South FL Folk Festival FL
Roots on the River Festival VT
Michigan State Prison MI
The Isis Listening Room & Cafe Asheville NC
Ashland Tea VA
Knuckleheads KS
Magnolia Festival FL
The Narrows MA
The Gamble Rogers Festival FL
Eddie’s Attic GA
The Rock Room TX
RiverHawk Music Festival FL
Sunday Roadhouse, NE