BAND BIO:

As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. This fabled facility in Macon, Georgia, and the bands who blew through it, urged the Atlanta guitarist to ditch school at 15, play his fingers bloody throughout the south, and turn apathy into acclaim for early albums Left My Soul in Memphis (2019), dubbed “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock & Blues Muse, and Little Black Flies (2021), praised by Classic Rock as “the most instinctive blues you’ll hear all year.” Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he acquired his first guitar at age six, ignored the prevailing pop scene at Oak Grove High School in favor of local heroes like Sean Costello and studied “older cats” like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Freddie King, and Rory Gallagher “to see what made them groove and tick.” His artistic vision became fully realized when he killed Brooks Mason and adopted the solo moniker that promises an electrifying night out, “Eddie 9 Volt”. 

Eddie spent his first quarter-century admiring Capricorn from afar. But in December 2021, the 26-year-old finally put his thumbprint on the studio’s mythology, corralling an eleven-strong group of the American South’s best roots musicians to track his third album. The album Capricorn is full of thrilling musical contrasts, fusing Eddie’s energy into his best songs yet.”Coming off a straight blues record, I wanted to show people we’re more than that,” he reflects. “I was listening to Muscle Shoals and soul, a lot of music recorded at Capricorn in the late-’60s too. So we spent way more time crafting the new tunes.” At Capricorn, Eddie 9V breathed in the history – but the album he spat out is worthy of sharing the name, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the studio’s greatest hits and taking music back to the golden age. “We made this record,” he considers, “the way they would have done in 1969…”