JOINS CHARLEY CROCKETT’S $10 COWBOY TOUR AND NEEDTOBREATHE DATES THIS SUMMER
NAMED ONE OF HOLLER‘S 10 NEW AND UPCOMING COUNTRY AND AMERICANA ARTISTS YOU NEED TO KNOW
NASHVILLE, TENN. – Alabama-born country crooner and newest addition to the Big Loud Records roster Kashus Culpepper has released his first-ever official recording, “After Me?,” available on all streaming / DSP platforms now.
A haunting mid-tempo about false promises, “After Me?” finds Culpepper mourning as a former love marries someone new. Produced by Brian Elmquist and written by Mark Addison Chandler and Culpepper, the lament shows off the riser’s uninhibited, brooding vocals and pen as he quips:
Guess I’m the old love
And he’s the new
Her brooch is borrowed
Guess I’m the blue
I just can’t seem to
So how can she
Be happy ever after me?
Fan demand for “After Me?” became ravenous after Culpepper posted a clip of the song on social media in November 2023, connecting globally with an instantly identifiable vocal grit and a raw, unfiltered delivery.
“The support of this song on socials and at my shows has blown my mind,” Culpepper says. “Can’t wait for everyone to hear the whole song, cause I’m over the moon about how it turned out. This is only the beginning, and I’m truly happy that ‘After Me?’ is my first single.”
MusicRow calls Culpepper “thoroughly gripping,” and Country Central applauds how “Culpepper is steadily proving that he has the potential to become a prominent figure in country music.” With more new music on the way, The Tennessean predicts that “Kashus Culpepper could find similar traction in the sonic space occupied by Chris Stapleton’s country influence,” while Holler notes that “by cleverly reimagining its past, Kashus Culpepper could become the very future of country music.”
After starting 2024 with his first-ever headlining Early Spring Tour, playing sold-out shows in clubs across the Southeast without ever releasing a song, Culpepper will keep his boots on the road all summer, joining Charley Crockett’s $10 Cowboy Tour and opening amphitheater plays with NEEDTOBREATHE.
KASHUS CULPEPPER TOUR DATES
June 23 – Columbus, Ohio – Buckeye Country Superfest
June 29 – Columbiana, Ala. – Liberty Day Festival
July 3 – Baytown, Texas – Baytown’s Independence Day Celebration
July 20 – Louisville, Ky. – Iroquois Amphitheater*
July 26 – Nashville, Tenn. – Ryman Auditorium $
Aug. 2 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – McGrath Amphitheatre*
Aug. 4 – Green Bay, Wis. – EPIC Event Center*
Aug. 20 – Richmond, Va. – The National $
Aug. 22 – Wilmington, N.C. – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater $
Aug. 23 – Wilmington, N.C. – Greenfield Lake Amphitheater $
Aug. 24 – Atlanta, Ga. – The Eastern $
Aug. 25 – Simpsonville, S.C. – The Marcus King Band Family Reunion 2024
Aug. 30 – Macon, Ga. – Macon City Auditorium*
Sept. 1 – Augusta, Ga. – The Bell Auditorium*
* with NEEDTOBREATHE
$ with Charley Crockett
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ABOUT KASHUS CULPEPPER
Alabama-born country crooner Kashus Culpepper encompasses the sound of the South. A student and reverent purveyor of Southern music – country, soul, blues, folk, and rock – Culpepper’s husky, sandpaper growl bellows like a freight train over self-penned stories that are as raw and real as they are haunting. Finding his voice in church as young as five years old, it wasn’t until 2020’s global pandemic that Culpepper went from listener to performer, picking up a guitar and learning cover songs to play at barrack bonfires in Rota, Spain during his deployment with the Navy. Covers soon became originals, and once he landed home on U.S. shores, Kash played dive bars up and down the Mississippi Gulf Coast, making a name for himself with the fresh-yet-reminiscent sound that oozes from his very being. Crashing into prominence now, Culpepper has already sold-out headline club shows throughout the South despite never formally releasing a single song, also opening shows nationwide for sound pioneers like Charles Wesley Godwin, Charley Crockett, and NEEDTOBREATHE. With Nashville taking notice, Culpepper found a musical home at Big Loud Records, and just dropped his first career single “After Me?” MusicRow hails Culpepper as “thoroughly gripping,” and with the promise of more music on the way in 2024, The Tennessean predicts how one of their 10 Nashville artists you need to know for 2024’s “forthcoming material could offer…significant acclaim.”
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