2025 Update

I’m excited to be getting close to the final mixing stage of my upcoming album Wild Figurines. It’s been serious fun to work with coproducer and sound wizard Lance Brenner (Naked Puritans, Thrum, Falsies) and to have a long line of the most natural musicians in musician-dense central Virginia passing through the studio. Their names will be familiar to listeners for a long way off, but I saw them first in Charlottesville, where most of them and I live and where I still go out to see them today. I think I a lot of live music fans will remember them as key players on the soundtrack of the ’20s.

I’m gonna have to buy a record player! I don’t see much use in making cd’s at this point, so the plan is to release the new album on (drumroll) vinyl, as well as digitally at all the places. Sorry, no date yet.

Since my sick spell a while back (undiagnosed neurological condition, 2010-2013, much better now, thanks), one of the things I’ve had to relearn is how to play guitar. There have been some hitches—sometimes my fingers take a while to thaw out—but they’ve spurred me to explore a more percussive way playing that I probably wouldn’t have gotten into if I hadn’t had to. I keep thinking of Django Reinhardt, who coped with losing two fingers in a fire by coming up with a new way of playing that influenced guitarists around the world . . .

I haven’t been playing out as often as I’d like (I’ll let you know), but I have a gig with Luke Kibler now and then and go to open mics to keep my hand in. (Michael Clem’s Monday nights at The Local are one of the best reasons for a singer-songwriter to live in Charlottesville.)

Thanks to all of you for listening. Stay tuned!

Brady