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Bryan Masters

Bryan Masters

About Me

Bryan Masters' crooked heart was educated along the two-lane blacktops and dirt roads of Kansas, and his music speaks of small towns, dreams lost and found, and the torments of real love. It's literate, lyrical Americana that croons country and blurts rockabilly. Imagine a bare-knuckles brawl between John Prine and Elvis Costello, refereed by the fat guy from Barenaked Ladies.

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Member Since: 1/10/2006
Band Website: bryanmasters.com
Band Members: Bryan Masters - Vocals, guitar
Dennis Hardin - Stunt guitar, vocals, occasional mandolin
Influences: The Beatles, Crowded House, Peter Case, Radney Foster, Ryan Adams, Todd Snider, Juli Froelich, Patti Griffin, Steve Seskin, Jerry Lee Lewis, T-Bone Burnett, Dennis Hardin, Glenn Phillips, Sam Phillips (both of 'em), Steve Earle, Elvis Costello, Prince, Skynyrd, Mark Horton, Wayne Gottstine, Peter Holsapple, Uche, REM, Lonestar, Robbie Fulks, Nikki Moddelmog, Darden Smith, Michael Penn, George Jones, Mark Scheltgen, Byron VanMeter, Merle Haggard, Mike Coykendall
Record Label: Digital Boy Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The King is dead.

My father died last night. James Robert Masters passed away on Palm Sunday, 2006 at 11:25 pm -- two days after his 78th birthday. He was a keen wordsmith and a first-rate Dixieland clarinetist. During...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:53:00 PST

KIRK-A-DOODLE

It's pretty perfect when we can do the right thing for the right reasons and help a good person in the process. But it is profoundly perfect when we can do so by raising the roof with 850 great friend...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 01:16:00 PST

MarkAid: Thanks, everybody.

I'm really thrilled with the way the MarkAid benefit went. The Artichoke was packed, the music was great, and together we raised over $4200 for Mark and his family. (By the way -- someone put a lotter...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:26:00 PST

An end to the bad news, please.

Last Sunday, one friend was released from the hospital after a radical procedure to remove a substantial cancer from his body. He's doing okay, and will be recovering -- physically, emotiona...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:53:00 PST

Heroes - I made a video

So I got an old demo copy of Adobe Premiere and made a video. I have 29 days left on my 30-day trial. See the video. The song is Heroes. It's from my first CD, So Low. Thanks to Juli the Cinemato...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:02:00 PST

Hello, new year

Thanks to everyone for a remarkable year. Dennis and I played the Artichoke on Dec. 30, just in time to give 2005 a big, sloppy goodbye kiss. A few highlights from the past 365 days: I spent a w...
Posted by Bryan Masters on Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:53:00 PST