Pulse Music Magazine A student and reverent purveyor of Southern music – country, soul, blues, folk, and rock – Kashus 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 has already sold out headline club shows throughout the South 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 dropped his first two career singles, “After Me?” and “Who Hurt You,” with his third offering “Out Of My Mind,” continuing to push the boundaries of mainstream country.
“Out Of My Mind” is a song within a song, written by Culpepper and produced by Brian Elmquist (The Lone Bellow). Diving into Culpepper’s inner world headfirst, the sludgy, soulful thump explores the push-and-pull aftermath of a tormenting heartbreak.
“Out of My Mind is one of the first songs I ever wrote – it’s evolved over the past year and I’m so excited for people to hear it,” Culpepper shares.
A break within the four-minute odyssey enlivens things, starring plucking banjo and an optimistic plunk, painting details with hope of recovery and a group-sing backdrop, just to plummet back into the grimy, swamp-tinged swagger of the song’s start. “Out Of My Mind” doubles down on why Culpepper is an artist for the ages.
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