Songs that came up out of the hills around Tupelo, and are still walking.
“I wouldn’t rather be from anywhere else but Mississippi.”
Steady, droning grooves in the R.L. Burnside line, a single chord ridden until it turns into weather — and somewhere behind it, the long ragged guitar of Crazy Horse. A debut made with The Magnolia Sound.
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, where a song can ride one chord until the room starts to sway with it.
He started on a Suzuki violin at four. The guitar came later, and it came with a lineage: 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, Water Liars — and the songs will too. The debut lives in the hills. What comes after will go wherever the road goes.
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