“Somewhere out in Middle America /Halfway between late and lonesome…” So sings singer-songwriter Caleb Keith on the song “Middle America,” propelled by the deep honky-tonk twang of his band, the Calaveras. It’s is the lyric from which the Athens, GA outfit’s debut offering, Between Late and Lonesome, extracts its title, and fittingly so. Caleb’s music is a collection of songs infused with themes of wanderlust and lost love, informed by Caleb’s upbringing and subsequent departure from a place that falls squarely within the region defined in the title: Champaign, Illinois. His formative years were shaped by his parents’ record collection of old and new country, and 60s and 70s rock and soul. Caleb later discovered alt-country luminaries such as Whiskeytown, Uncle Tupelo, Old 97s, Two Dollar Pistols, the Jayhawks, and others whose music reflected the spirit of the so-called flyover country in which he was raised. From these influences, Caleb found a deep-seated appreciation for the power of a simple, heartfelt song delivered with some grit and twang, as well as the spark of inspiration to create something of his own, resulting in a sound that is at once both old and new, faded and familiar.

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Consumer and producer, veteran of the #NYC underground.  Follow me on twitter at twitter.com/lucid_state

my name's Stoney Catcherye, I'm a songwriter from the Northeastern US. I have a page with my own songs, but this is the place where I post covers that I record. I will be posting a whole bunch of covers I have done in the past 12 years but only leaving them up for a few days at a time. Thanks for checking out my renditions of these great tunes...

Lifelong follower of the muse. Solitary musical traveler. Playing in the basement shadows to an audience of one.

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