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Caleb Caudle "Better Hurry Up" Album Release Tour with Wild Ponies
The 5 Spot
Nashville, TN
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Caleb Caudle "Better Hurry Up" Album Release Tour with Wild Ponies
Caleb Caudle wanted an earthy, funky sound for his new album. He assembled several Grammy-winning musicians to chase it down in the Cash Cabin, a small place with a big history.

It feels like youre in the shadow of giants, Caudle says.

He emerged from the shadows with Better Hurry Up, his eighth studio album. Its 11 songs showcase Caudles vivid lyrics and foreboding vocals, as well as the work of an A-list cast of musicians. John Jackson of the Jayhawks produced, and guest vocalists include Courtney Marie Andrews, Elizabeth Cook, Gary Louris, and John Paul White.

A large sound emerged from the little cabin, which Johnny Cash built in 1979 as a private sanctuary near his home outside Nashville. It evolved into a recording studio more than a decade later. Since then the rustic structure has hosted sessions by everyone from Loretta Lynn and Emmylou Harris to Jamey Johnson and Todd Snider, as well as Cashs own work on his acclaimed series of American Recordings. Caudle and Jackson used the space to create a dramatic, compelling record.

None of us wore headphones, Caudle says. It was just like we were doing it for the love of music  it didnt feel like we were making a record. It felt like I was playing with an incredible group of musicians and making art.

That group of musicians on Better Hurry Up includes Mickey Raphael on harmonica (Willie Nelson), Dennis Crouch on bass (Elton John, Leon Russell), Fred Eltringham on drums (Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow), Russ Pahl on pedal steel (Kacey Musgraves, Dan Auerbach), Laur Joamets on guitar (Sturgill Simpson, Drivin N Cryin), and, on keyboards, Pat Sansone (Wilco) and Rhett Huffman (American Aquarium). Guest vocalists include Cook, White, Andrews and one of Jacksons fellow Jayhawks, Gary Louris.

Jackson suggested working together after attending a Caudle show in New York. He casually mentioned that he plays in the Jayhawks, Caudle says. That was really cool, because Im a giant fan of theirs. They discussed working at some legendary recording studios in Muscle Shoals and Memphis before agreeing on the Cash Cabin.

They knocked out Better Hurry Up in a few days, another factor that gives the album a loose, natural feel. The sound suits the songs, which Caudle wrote after immersing himself in the vintage roots-funk of Leon Russell, J.J. Cale, Dr. John, the Band, and Little Feat. Crouchs bass work helps establish the new albums deep grooves. I thought the bass lines were really important, Caudle says. I wanted them to push the songs along, move them in a different way. Dennis had played with Leon and Elton, and I knew that he knew what I was talking about.

On Better Hurry Up, Caudle worked with a cowriter for the first time in 2019, teaming up with Natalie Hemby of the Highwomen to write Regular Riot. I got the title from an episode of The Honeymooners I remember watching as a kid, he said. Its coming from a place of self-awareness. Its important to know who you are and know what needs to change. The amount of destruction you can leave behind from simple actions just really struck me.

One track has already emerged from Caudles Cash Cabin sessions: a cover of the Hank Williams classic Howlin at the Moon. Rolling Stone Country named it One of the 10 Best Country and Americana Songs to Hear Now upon its release in August 2019, saying backed by harmonica ace Mickey Raphael and outlaw country queen Elizabeth Cook, Caleb Caudle revives an old Hank Williams song from 1951, slowing down the tempo to a funky strut and replacing the originals emphasis on pedal steel guitar with plenty of honking harp.

Better Hurry Up follows Caudles celebrated 2018 album Crushed Coins. Ann Powers selected that records Empty Arms as one of NPR Musics Songs We Love, saying Caleb Caudles sound encompasses the wide expanse of America, as the best country rock always will. In a review of Crushed Coins for PopMatters, writer Jeff Strowe said Caudle has recorded an albums worth of songs that continue to grow in the soul upon each repeated listen.

Working at the Cash Cabin in 2019 marked another milestone on Caudles musical journey. Besides its rich legacy, the studio had the advantage of being close to home for Caudle: He and Lauren Caudle, his wife and manager, moved to Nashville from their native North Carolina in early 2019. Caudle was raised in the countryside outside Winston-Salem, where both of his parents primed tobacco as young people. I grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, specifically the Sauratown Mountains of Stokes County, North Carolina, Caudle says. I spent a lot of time wandering around in the woods making up songs. Sometimes my mom would find my scribblings on the napkins in the pockets of my jeans when she would do laundry.

His art teacher in high school, Phil Jones, helped fuel Caudles passion for music: He allowed me to bring my guitar to class to practice my instrument while the others worked on various pieces of visual art. That class always felt like my sanctuary. It was the most important part of my day. He turned me on to Bob Dylan, whose rawness struck me. He was singing about things that I often thought about but never mentioned. Things like the ways people were struggling and how to react to that, and the ability within ourselves to break cycles.

Caudle moved to Winston-Salem, got a job in a pizza joint, and started playing around town. His father, a Marine veteran and truck driver, set an example for the kind of life Caudle would lead as a working musician. I think that really shaped the way I felt about hard work and constant travel, Caudle says. Its always seemed so normal to me.

He gradually expanded his horizons to clubs across the Southeast, all the while learning as much as he could about the music he loved. I found myself spending hours and hours devouring records and music biographies in my free time, Caudle says. I wanted to know where all of the music I loved came from. I needed to know how it was all connected. Genre started to matter less and less to me. I only cared about sincerity. I knew it when I heard it.

His musical explorations took him to New Orleans, which enhanced his love for a good groove. I love good music and good food and I figured they got plenty of both, Caudle says. The rhythm of that city gets deep into you. I started learning how the groove of the song is often as important as the message. You gotta get their minds thinking and their toes tapping. Unfortunately, living in the Big Easy also encouraged excessive behavior: I had been drinking for a while at that point, but life on the road really took my weakness and exploited it.

In 2014, Caudle stopped drinking and returned home to North Carolina. There he met Lauren, and their relationship inspired the songs on Caudles 2016 album Carolina Ghost. I just remember thinking she saved me, he says. I couldnt do any of this without her. Lauren joined him on the road not long afterward. It was the best decision weve ever made, Caudle says. Being gone for months on end isnt as bad when youre together.

The Cash Cabin sessions started three days after the couple moved to Music City. Caudles parents drove out from North Carolina as the sessions were winding down, and Lauren brought them to the studio on the last day. I surprised them by letting them know they were all gonna be singing with me on the title track, Caudle says. The songs message made it an easy choice to be the albums title track. Caudle calls the song a call to arms about realizing your purpose and knowing fear of failure doesnt have a place at the table. His loved ones joined him to sing, The time is running out, so you better hurry up.All of us grew up singing in church, so I felt like they would do a great job on the Better Hurry Up chorus, Caudle says. It felt like a big family singalong. It felt empowering.


WILD PONIES:

Wild Ponies offer dead right, honest songwriting delivered in a hauntingly beautiful yet gritty, neo-traditional Americana wrapper. Their newest release Galax salutes Wild Ponies' traditional roots while exploring new, progressive territory. It's an album about the pieces of our past that stick with us, informing our present while pushing us toward a future. An album that redefines Wild Ponies' sound, while highlighting influences that have always rested just beneath the surface.


"We'll always be the pinball that bounces between folk, rock & roll and country," says Telisha, and this Old-Time style will always weave its way through everything we do. It's been there from the start, even on the loudest songs we've made. It only took us a couple of days to record it, but this is the album we've been making our whole lives. We just needed the right people and the right songs to finish it.



"Wild Ponies swing emotional wrecking balls with great delicacy"

M Music and Musicians Magazine


"Wild Ponies just might be Americanas new dark horses

No Depression

Location

The 5 Spot (View)
1006 Forrest Ave
Nashville, TN 37206
United States

Categories

Music > Americana

Minimum Age: 21

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Owner: Caleb Caudle
On BPT Since: Jan 15, 2020
 
Caleb Caudle
www.calebcaudle.com


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