A young Southern songwriter, and the country that made the songs.
Steady, droning grooves in the R.L. Burnside line, one chord ridden until it turns into weather — with the long ragged guitar of Crazy Horse somewhere behind it.
Silas Caldwell was born in Tupelo, moved to Oxford at eight and to Nashville at twelve. The geography matters. His father, Tony, spent nearly two decades playing bass behind the hill country’s own — the trance blues of the North Mississippi hills.
He started on a Suzuki violin at four. The guitar came later, with a lineage attached: his walnut Gibson ES-335 was chosen to match the one played by his great-grandfather, I.A. Turner, who played for Sonny James.
The record collection runs wider than the blues — Neil Young, Patti Smith, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, R.L. Burnside, John Moreland — and the songs will too. The debut lives in the hills. What comes after will go wherever the road goes.
“I would rather play original music for ten than covers for hundreds.”
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Rooms played so far: The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville. The Link Centre, Tupelo. Change Festival, Tupelo. Thacker Mountain Radio at the Powerhouse, Oxford.