Eddie 9V Capricorn (CD)

(Ruf Records) 11 tracks - digisleeve

As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios did it to Eddie 9V. Eddie spent his first 25 years of life admiring the studio and the bands that recorded there from afar.

But in December 2021, the 26-year-old finally put his stamp on the studio's mythos when he gathered an 11-piece group of the American South's finest roots musicians to record his third album. Never meet your heroes, they say, and many young artists have been overwhelmed when they tread the hallowed ground of their dream studio.

At Capricorn, Eddie 9V breathed history - but the album he spat out deserves to bear the name, shoulder to shoulder with the studio's greatest hits and golden age music. "We made this record the way they would have made it in 1969," he notes ..."