Ron Capps is an emerging singer/songwriter whose first recording, Trying to Catch Amnesia, examines the lives of returning combat veterans and their families. 

     “Ron Capps has put together a beautiful collection of songs that do some miraculously heavy lifting as they float into my ears. Each song is a keyhole into rooms that we may want to keep the door shut and lights off. Each song reminds me that those things that we can't talk about have power over us.” 

—Susan Gibson, Songwriter 

    Ron’s songs are narrative driven, character rich, flash fictions told by someone who has lived the lives he writes about—he is a combat disabled veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 

     “Ron Capps weaves powerful, often dark tales in his songs. And he delivers them with honesty and depth in a stunning tenor voice that reminds me of Harry Chapin and John Denver, but is clearly his own."

—David Starr, Songwriter 

     Now living in Maine, before joining the Army Ron was a music student and a gigging solo performer in Virginia and North Carolina. After a career in the Army and the Foreign Service, Ron came back to music and began writing songs using his experiences in Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Darfur, and his personal struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as kindling for creating these stories. 

     "Heartbreaking songs, beautifully played and sung                 by a gifted songwriter."

—Thom Moore, Songwriter 

   Ron’s narrative approach is to recognize and acknowledge the inescapability of war, even once the soldier is home, and to tell the stories honestly and with an authenticity that only a survivor can detail. 

 “Ron Capps has put together a stunning debut album. He is a songwriter for our times—and all times.”  

—Jeff Stein, Journalist