Casper McWade with Matt Parks

From Shawnee, Oklahoma, Casper McWade has been singing in beer halls and backwoods joints for years. He is one of these artists that’s too rough-and-tumble for the Nashville scene, and not polished enough for Texas/Red Dirt. But McWade has garnered a following all his own between the margins, just like fellow songwriter Cody Jinks, who recorded one of McWade’s songs on his recent album The Wanting, and released a cover of “Don’t Follow” by Alice in Chains with McWade earlier this year.