“Best I Can” is a song by Grady Spencer & the Work, a Texas red-dirt/Americana band fronted by singer-songwriter Grady Spencer. The track appears on the band’s 2013 album Sleep, and it’s the song most likely behind a search for “I Can Grady Spencer” — there isn’t a separate, differently-titled song by the band called simply “I Can.”
Who Grady Spencer & the Work are
Grady Spencer is from Paducah, a small town in West Texas, and for years balanced music with a day job as a sheet metal mechanic building HVAC systems inside commercial structures — a detail that comes up often in interviews about the band, and one that fits the grounded, working-class songwriting the group is known for. Grady Spencer & the Work built their following within the Texas/red-dirt country and Americana scene, a regional circuit distinct from mainstream Nashville country, built around independent touring and local radio rather than major-label promotion.
About “Best I Can”
“Best I Can” is a track from Sleep, the band’s 2013 release, and it’s held up as one of the more recognized songs in their catalog on streaming platforms and fan-tracking sites like Last.fm. Like much of the band’s material, it fits within the melodic, guitar-driven songwriting typical of the Texas red-dirt scene rather than a polished, radio-country production style.
Where to hear it
The song is available on major streaming platforms under Grady Spencer & the Work’s artist page, filed under the 2013 album Sleep. If you’re trying to find lyrics or additional background, searching the exact title “Best I Can” alongside the band name will get more reliable results than “I Can” alone, since the shorter title isn’t how the song is actually listed anywhere.
The Texas red-dirt scene, briefly
Bands like Grady Spencer & the Work operate largely outside the mainstream Nashville country machine, building audiences through regional touring across Texas and Oklahoma, independent releases, and a loyal local fanbase rather than major-label radio pushes. It’s the same scene that produced acts like Turnpike Troubadours and Cody Canada — guitar-forward, narrative songwriting rooted in a specific regional identity rather than a national pop-country sound.