Willie Sugarcapps

Down in lower Alabama, almost every weekend for the past two years, folks have been coming together for a music gathering called the Frog Pond at Blue Moon Farm. One part house concert, one part Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble, The Frog Pond in its short existence has already played host to some of the country's finest songwriters, pickers, bluesmen, and troubadours ranging from Mary Gauthier to Alvin Youngblood Hart, Malcolm Holcombe to Randall Blamblett, Sergio Webb to George Porter, Jr. It was here at The Frog Pond that frequent encounters between five artists in residency - Grayson Capps, Will Kimbrough, Corky Hughes, and the duo Sugarcane Jane featuring Savana Lee and Anthony Crawford - lead to the formation of Willie Sugarcapps. At first it was simply songwriter-in-the-round and jam session-styled collaborations, but it quickly grew to become something more.

There was an immediate chemistry between the five distinct musicians that inspired a repertoire of songs demanding to be documented. They recruited Capp's longtime partner and Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer Trina Shoemaker to record them, which resulted in the self-titled debut album, Willie Sugarcapps. The collection presents ten impeccably well-crafted songs imbued by relax performances, angelic harmonies, and country Zen sentiment. Band members often take turns singing lead as they switch up between fiddle, banjo, mandolin, lap steel, bass, and even ukulele. Their collective musical experiences linger together to create something magically original and spiritually honest. It's a comfort to know that in the hands of Willie Sugarcapps, music still happens for no other reason than purely the sake of music itself.