The artist to watch performed at Opry NextStage Live ahead of the 60th ACM Awards
Alabama born crooner and Grammy Artist to Watch Kashus Culpepper releases “Man of His Word” – extending his run of acclaimed songs. The new track is striking a chord with over 1.5 million pre-listens ahead of release via Big Loud.
“My new song ‘Man of His Word’ is about the one thing we all need, which is having someone we can trust,” shares Culpepper. “We can all relate to that.”
As buzz around his artistry and songwriting continues to grow, he penned the new song with one of the most accomplished and sought after songwriters in music, Natalie Hemby. “Man of His Word” builds around the song’s muse: “Promises easily made are easily broken / And love is more than words that are spoken… / She don’t need a man that keeps talking / She needs a man, well she needs a man of his word.”
Earlier this week, Culpepper released an official music video for “Southern Man” featuring Marcus King. The rollicking song’s video stars Culpepper alongside his close knit bandmates. The vibrant visual, full of contagious personality, was directed by Jay Miller.
Following his recent debut at Stagecoach, Culpepper will continue to take his southern sounds on the road where he joins Leon Bridges and Dylan Gossett throughout the spring, and Whiskey Myers in the summer, alongside headline shows and festival dates throughout.
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, Culpepper sold out headline club shows throughout the South before formally releasing a single song, and opened 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 has dropped a string of resonating singles.
