Grant Peeples Code To Live By

Grant Peeples Code To Live By

​Grant Peeples (from the album Code to Live By available as a self-release) (by Danny McCloskey)
 
A raggedy rhythm signals the beginning of the album when a jug band offers a live recording of “Sunshine State”. The tune is from Grant Peeples, a seventh-generation Floridian, and he lists the reasons his home state stands out from other 49 with wry humor and a clear understanding of where it all went wrong. The track is the opening salvo on Code to Live By, the recent and fourteenth studio album from Grant Peeples. His recordings and live shows stand testament to his role as political humorist when he delivers his clear-eyed observations served up with a wink and a smile. The patter of rhythms and clouds of distorted notes poke at a marching melody as Grant Peeples rises to the pulpit to deliver his sermon on “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” while memories swirl around Code to Live By for “Little Island” and a poem tells a horror story of contemporary life in the U.S.A. as it reads from “The Ledger”.
 
Breezy finger-picking sparkles as a background for “Right This Time” as Code to Live By tells the tale of a railroad man in “Some Times” and touches “Something Else” with a Latin texture in its plucked notes and scratchy beat. Singing a tribute to fellow Floridian Jimmy Buffet, Grant Peeples jumbles the words for Jimmy’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty” with “An Artist Looks at Eighty”. A low rumble surrounds the words of “Sins of the Fathers” with dark clouds of sound while a dreamy drifting Jazz rhythm floats underneath Grant Peeples as he speaks his truths to close out Code to Live By with the title track. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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