NASHVILLE, TENN. – Today, Alabama-born country crooner Kashus Culpepper releases an official music video for “After Me?” which premiered with CMT making its broadcast debut on Paramount’s Times Square billboard, and announces forthcoming release, “Jenni,” out Jan. 24.
About shooting his first-ever music video, “honest storyteller” (The Tennessean) Culpepper shares, “I’m a huge fan of movies. Really love the art of it all – which is why it was important for my first video to incorporate elements of my favorite films and music videos.”
Opening with a trunk shot and title sequence alluding to the signature style of cultural touchstone Quentin Tarantino, the striking video directed by Jay Miller provides a compelling visual for the brooding song produced by Brian Elmquist (The Lone Bellow) and written by Culpepper alongside Mark Addison Chandler.
Watch the official music video for “After Me?” here.
Following the release of “After Me?” Billboard concluded that Culpepper stands out as an artist finding success “with sounds expanding beyond the boundaries of mainstream country,” while Country Central noted “Culpepper is one of the most interesting newcomers.”
Culpepper recently made his debut at the Grand Ole Opry just six months into his career as a recording artist. Hitting the ground running this year, he will take his inextricable influences of country, soul, blues and folk back on the road opening for Leon Bridges, Ian Munsick, and making first-ever appearances at Stagecoach, C2C in London, Tortuga Music Festival, and more.
ABOUT KASHUS CULPEPPER
Alabama-born country crooner Kashus 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 now, 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 just dropped his first four career singles “After Me?,” “Who Hurt You,” “Out Of My Mind,” and latest “Pour Me Out.” MusicRow hails Culpepper as “thoroughly gripping,” and with the promise of more music on the way, The Tennessean predicts “forthcoming material could offer…significant acclaim.”
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