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About Me

I listen to and love a lot of popular music -- from Townes Van Zandt to Radiohead; from Dylan to Massive Attack; from Billy Bragg to the Clash. OK, that last one doesn't really show a range, but you see what I mean. I also love old things like Mississippi John Hurt and Blind William McTell, and I'm a sucker for really good choral music (in fact, my wife and I had the great privilege to sing one short season with the renowned Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus many years ago, when we were first dating).

So I've been writing songs and playing guitar since I was a kid, and I've been playing original music for audiences off and on for over 20 years. More and more my wife, Shelle, sings with me whenever I perform. Shelle's clear alto and ear for inventive harmony lift the songs we sing into a higher plane -- something altogether greater than the pitiful words I'm trying to use to describe it.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/5/2006
Band Website: events.mediumloud.com
Band Members:

Patrick Bryant Singer, Guitar player, Songwriter Shelle Bryant (better) Singer Matt Kubilus Bass player
Influences: A lot of people who write songs and sing and play guitar
Sounds Like: When Shelle and I sing together, we're a bit like Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, someone said. I like that.
Record Label: mediumloud
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Friends with a dead man

How ’bout me, being friends with Townes Van Zandt. I’m less surprised that he interacts from beyond the grave than that he would choose to do it through myspace. I mean, hell, if he can ma...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:16:00 PST

Visions and Revisions

I like to think about that T.S. Eliot bit about a hundred visions and revisions in terms of the process of writing and the balance between flashes of insight and the subsequent work of turning those f...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:14:00 PST

Shows and other News

Dear friends:I want to give you a quick update on our music news in advance of some exciting events we have coming up.First, the shows (on which more as each approaches):February 23rd (a Saturday nigh...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:16:00 PST

Being the Bad Guy

[reposted from my real blog, Departure]Andy Whitman is just about my favorite music critic. Among other things, he writes for Paste magazine, and I always look for his reviews first. He recently wrote...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:27:00 PST

New Posts

I've been posting on Departure recently about songwriting and suchlike. So, you know, you could go read. If you want.
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:48:00 PST

Redlight Redux

Fun show, good crowd, cold as Nordic Hell! Drew Williams started off with a kicking Neil Young-influenced set. Drew has just finished recording a demo of his own work, and he's got the cho...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:46:00 PST

New Website Design, and blah blah blah

I've been a busy beaver, redesigning my website and (real) blog:http://mediumloud.com and Departure respectively. Actually, both URLs have changed too, but I'm forwarding from the old ones.The s...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:39:00 PST

Show Tonight

Come and dig it! Java Monkey. Can't speak for the monkey, but the java is good. And the beer and wine are good. And the vibe is good. The address is on Ponce, but the doo...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:24:00 PST

Sometimes I'm mean

Over the weekend, I reworked a song I wrote in November, a song that I was thinking of dropping. Of course, it's quite common for me to revise a song rather than toss it, but this was kind of a specia...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:12:00 PST

Here's Something Nifty

I installed a plug-in for Firefox that's a blog editor that sits in the browser and let's me write blog posts in a nice little GUI editor and then post them to blogs. It's got an extension that ...
Posted by Patrick Bryant on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:26:00 PST