Augusta, GA's prodigal son, Will McCranie, has returned after a nearly 8 year stint of gigging, touring, writing & recording with New York City as his home base. During his time in The Big Apple, McCranie averaged well over 100 live performances a year (playing shows with the likes of Goo Goo Dolls, G. Love & Special Sauce, Colbie Caillat, Gin Blossoms, Tonic, Big Something, Kevn Kinney, Angie Aparo & Michael Tolcher along the way), studied guitar under Jamie McLean (Jamie McLean Band/ Dirty Dozen Brass Band), Brendan Bayliss & Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee & Jon "Barber" Gutwillig (The Disco Biscuits), released 3 EP's and a full length LP under his own name, played on nearly a dozen releases with other artists, recorded/released a song a week for over a year on his 52/52 PROJECT, signed a sync/licensing deal with Fieldhouse Music/BMG, and he was voted Augusta Magazine’s “Best Male Vocalist” in 2013 and 2021 and is a two time recipient of the Lokal Loudness Awards “Favorite Solo Artist”. His band, Bodega Cat was also honored to have been voted “Best Rock/Alternative Group” in 2022 & 2023.

McCranie followed up his 2014 release, I Know I Didn't Know Anything, with a new EP After Midnight Friends, Volume 1 on Broken Compass Records in the Fall of 2016.  Veteran super-producer Jeff Tomei returned to the helm, along with Will's longtime friend & mentor Patrick Blanchard for the After Midnight Friends sessions. Grammy nominated Glenn Schick mastered the collection from the road in South Korea. The EP was recorded in just one weekend at Cock of the Walk Studios in Kennesaw, GA and the result is McCranie's most honest and live sounding collection to date. He reconnected with IKIDKA producer, Matty Amendola in Brooklyn, NY in October of 2017 and a new single, Wait To Dream, was released 2 short weeks later.

Will McCranie's tunes are a carefully balanced mix of alternative/pop-rock influences blended with his southern roots. You feel like after listening to the his music that you have opened a beautiful music box filled with love, life, happiness, sadness, honesty and truth.  It’s a mix of all these feelings and experiences that really make McCranie a songwriter you can connect with and who is only going to bring you alongside him on this musical journey.

In addition to his solo efforts, McCranie can be found fronting the improvisational rock band, Bodega Cat, leaning on his love of jambands like Umphrey’s McGee and Phish or with the local supergroup, Sweet Burrito - “Augusta, GA’s undisputed kings of dad rock”. Bodega Cat released its debut EP, “Say It With Me… Bo-De-Ga” in August of 2022. The project was tracked in Downtown Augusta and once again reunited McCranie with Matty Amendola and Grammy Award winning mastering engineer Hans Dekline for post production. Will & Matty co-wrote and produced his first solo single in several year, “Worry Not”, which was released in December of 2022.