Grant Peeples has lived a storied life, which has helped him become a great storyteller.

He once owned a night club that hosted such luminaries as B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Temptations and many more. Growing up in Florida, he eventually migrated to an island off the coast of Nicaragua to get away from it all and write songs. Ironically, he barely picked up his guitar there for 10 years. When he came back to the states, a series of circumstances that culminated with a dear friend’s death gave him the impetus to return to his guitar.

What ensued was an outpouring of stories and emotion that resulted in his debut album, “It’s Later Than You Think,” which was heralded with four separate awards in his home state and radio airplay nationwide. Soon after, more kudos for his sophomore effort, “Pawnshop,” where he expanded his list of radio stations playing his music and charted on the Americana chart.

Now Peeples has released his third effort, “Okra and Ecclesiates,” a fine album of great stories and wonderful songs. Produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen), the album is packed with songs that will move you, make you laugh, bring a tear, or evoke thought.

With fine instrumental performances by Morlix (who plays guitar, bass, keyboards, pedal steel and lends harmony vocals), Rick Richards on percussion, and Radoslav Lorkovic on accordion, the band compliments Peeples’ expressive vocals and guitar playing beautifully. The songs tackle everyday subjects as love, death, family, cowboys and country living, and a few subjects not so common like Buffalo hunts, fear of power lines, and high-fructose corn syrup. But it is not the subjects that make this album special, but the poetry in which the subjects are encompassed.

Grant Peeples is a great poet, storyteller, and a helluva songwriter, and “Okra and Ecclesiastes” proves that in spades.