Craig King

Craig King is a singer-songwriter living in Greenville, SC, playing original alternative-folk songs with blues/jazz influence. Though a classically trained trumpet player and graduate of Yale School of Music, Craig is a self-taught guitarist/singer, brought up on the music of Dylan, Waits, Jeff Buckley, and Nina Simone. Craig plays a nylon-string guitar, relying on intricate fingerpicking patterns to accompany ornate melodies. Craig recently released his second album, Entropy in Six Dimensions, conceived as a nearly continuous work of 9 songs for voice and guitar, centered around ideas of time. In 2017 he released his debut album Blue Metropolis—a thick, busy, style-melding, horn-heavy work that he describes as a portrait of a city, inspired by his time in NYC.