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Bruce Brittain

About Me

Listen to my New CD Blue Sunday. You can purchase the CD at my website, www.brucebrittain.com
Born in Oklahoma and raised mostly in south-central Kansas, Bruce grew up listening late into the night to WSL Radio, Chicago and Wolf Man Jack from Del Rio. When the sun went down and the signal strengthened, those stations played Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins and Ray Charles. Bruce took up a cheap guitar at the age of eight and was playing in a local R&R band by the age of 12. He shifted to folk music in its mid-60’s heyday when he joined the fans of singer songwriters such as Carol King, James Taylor and Jesse Winchester. Living in Texas in the 70’s he was introduced to alternative country by the likes of Willy, Ray Wiley, Jerry Jeff, Delbert and Kris. To this formative years stew, he later mixed in some influences of The Eagles, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Cole Porter, poet Shel Silverstein and Lyle Lovett, stirred vigorously and got a unique blend of Americana R&B music.Bruce writes for a grown-up audience with references to opportunities and problems beyond the basics of heartache, lust, cheatin’, drinkin’, trucks, momma and prison, not that there isn’t a measure of those things too. He also writes about gold diggers, poseurs, granddaughters, women of a certain age, casual sex, cooking breakfast the morning after and the like.Bruce lives and writes in Atlanta, Georgia surrounded by tall trees, hundreds of books, three cats, one dog and his muse, Mimi, who should get co-writing credit on almost every song he creates. He has five grown children (counting the two sons-in-law), one grandson and more guitars than he owns up to for reasons of marital harmony.
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Member Since: 23/10/2007
Band Website: www.brucebrittain.com
Band Members: N/A
Influences: 40's big band and Texas swing, 50's rock-a-billy, 60's folk-rock, 70's outlaw country, 80's Memphis blues, 90's Americana rock and 21st century Tex-a-billy.
Sounds Like: I sound alot like me most of the time.
Record Label: Wisdom River
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Observation

If you take your marching orders from a fool you will end up looking foolish.
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:23:00 GMT

Observation

Beware the "high dudgeon", it's likely to starve your brain of oxygen.
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:57:00 GMT

Observation

Deep belief coupled with shallow thinking is a dangerous combination.
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:08:00 GMT

Observation

Hollywood is an unreliable source of historical fact.
Posted by on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:31:00 GMT

Observation

Political polarization is the result of narrow thinking.
Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:34:00 GMT

Observation

Money can't buy happiness but it makes being melancholy more bearable.
Posted by on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:20:00 GMT

Observation

So many idiots, so few villages.
Posted by on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:26:00 GMT

Observations

Facts without theory are trivia. Theory without facts is bullshit.
Posted by on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:47:00 GMT

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If you were to place all of the world's religious fanatics end-to-end, the world would be a far more peaceful place.
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:24:00 GMT

Observations

As an excuse, ignorance is only good one time.
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:47:00 GMT