Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters + Zach Meadows
September 13 @ 8:00 pm
Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters are rolling up to the Citizen Vinyl stage on Friday, September 13. 8 p.m. show, 7 p.m. doors. $15 in advance / $18 at the door.
Through sometimes shadowy arrangements that creep and lurk, Caleb Caudle continues to mine both the brightest and murkiest corners of his imagination, finding that purest of points where tenderness and grit collide, inspired by musical heroes like Buddy Miller and Guy Clark, and mentors like Elizabeth Cook and John Paul White. It was White who Caudle tapped to produce Sweet Critters, along with Ben Tanner, at the duo’s Florence, Alabama studio Sun Drop Sound.
These songs are a showcase of Caudle’s singular command of language. For Caudle, details are the last frontier in a world where thousands of new songs are created every day. As such, he weaves his intricate tales of redemption, sacrifice, forgiveness, and loss with the colorful threads of living, breathing characters and all the rich idiosyncrasies and ephemera that fill out their worlds.
Caudle and his band have played Stagecoach, Cayamo, Luck Reunion, Mountain Stage, Merlefest, Americanafest, The Long Road (UK), AMAUK (UK), and recently supported Marty Stuart, Steve Earle, Hayes Carll, Elizabeth Cook, Brent Cobb, Charles Wesley Godwin, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and many more.
From Florida to Nashville by way of the Carolinas, Zach Meadows’ music is rooted in a passion for personal, expressive songwriting and a penchant for weaving experiences into something greater. Grounded in the Americana tradition, Meadows’ stories make for a compelling miscellany of love, loss and everything in between. With his soulful, resonant voice, Meadows’ music is grounded in authenticity; as he puts it, “My songs are a reflection of me, and my music is always evolving with me.” Meadows’ steadfast commitment to songwriting is at the heart of his sound, grounded in a desire to “not write a song for the sake of writing a song, but to tell a story.” From listening rooms in Nashvilleto venues across the country, Meadows’ ability to move crowds with his poignant, introspective art is a Hallmark of what’s to come in his career.
