Renowned singer, songwriter and artist JJ Grey will celebrate the release of his critically acclaimed new Alligator Records album, Olustee, with a live JJ Grey & Mofro performance at The Lyric Oxford on Friday, November 1, 2024.
On Olustee (Grey’s first self-produced album and his first release in nine years), the North Florida-born and bred Grey sings his personal stories with universal themes of redemption, rebirth, hard luck, and inner peace. With his music, Grey also celebrates good times with lifelong friends, oftentimes mixing the carnal with the cerebral in the very same song. Fueled by his vividly detailed, timeless originals spun from his own life and experiences in the Northern Florida swampland, Grey’s gritty baritone drips with honest passion and testifies with a preacher’s foot-pounding fervor.
According to Grey, “The best songs I’ve ever written, I never wrote. They wrote themselves. The best show I ever played, played itself and had little to do with me or talent. To me, those things come from the power of an honest moment, and I guess I’m trying to live in that power and not force life to cough up what I want.”
In his music, Grey often writes and sings of his love and respect for Florida’s natural environment. Now, Grey is putting his passion for the environment into greater action. As the recently-named spokesperson for Live Wildly Foundation‘s “Join the Movement” campaign, Grey will play a pivotal role in advocating for the connection and protection of Florida’s wild places.
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