Meet Cam Spinks of The Voice Season 18

The Voice

February 6, 2020 By Mark Franklin 0

Cam Spinks of Alabaster, Alabama, and Team Blake Shelton on Season 18 of The Voice. (NBC Photo)

His audition: Cam Spinks, 29, of Alabaster, Ala.. performed “Wave on Wave” by Pat Green. Cam displayed nice grit in his voice, and all the coaches glanced toward Blake Shelton, the obvious chair turn. He did so, midway through the song. At the last minute, so did Kelly. Blake said there were lots of elements in Cam’s voice he loves. And Cam opted to join Team Blake.

Here’s more about Cam.

* Cam says he hails from a small town, grew up helping out on his family’s domesticated deer farm and is an avid outdoorsman.

* On Instagram, Cam labels himself an authentic southern singer-songwriter, Alabama born and raised — Montevallo-raised in Shelby County — to be more specific.

* After college, he moved to Nashville for music for “several years,” but eventually decided to return to Alabama, telling Talk of Alabama “that’s where I do my best work musically anyway.”

* While he had a guitar laying around for years, Cam said in that 2018 interview, that it wasn’t until he was in college that he started taking music more seriously.

* Musically, he said he’s been most influenced by alternative, old-school male country artists like Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell and Tyler Childers.

* For several years, he performed around Alabama as front man for a southern rock and country band called Cam Spinks and the 58s.

* More recently, he’s been singer-songwriter, and rhythm and lead guitar player for The Brickmasons.

* He’s released three EPs in the past two years — a four-song self-titled collection in 2018, a four-song live project last spring and a five-song EP, “I Got It From My Daddy,” last September.

* He told Raised Rowdy that the title track to that latest project is a tribute to his dad; the cover is an old photo of his father and grandfather visiting Gulf Shores, Ala., back in 1966 when his dad was a young boy.

* “I wanted it to be a glimpse into my childhood and why I am the way I am,” he said of the song. “I chose that to serve as a tribute to all the dads out there who got it right, like mine did.”