Medicine Hat, AB
http://radio3.cbc.ca/artists/Brett-Nelson
A Monday afternoon, downtown.
With the fire engines, coffee cups and winter tires, we still slip about into doorways and out of sight behind the winter's blaze and clock's steady breath. Time's been on our side these days. The old man's hat's on tight in the wind and the youngsters still stagger up street smoking their cigarettes and leaving the sidewalk in stitches. And we speak and speak and speak, and read aloud our wretched news.
Tomorrow night in this town is like Sunday morning for me. Bukowski in a stolen backpack and borrowed blues that never speak their wretched news too loud, always just right on the line ....... smooth and steady like the clock's breath or the youngster's cigarette.
---I am currently working on a full-length album, to be done and to you in Spring 2009
Influences range from Paul Simon (& Art Garfunkel), Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk and Woody Guthrie to Bright Eyes, Bonnie Prince Billy, M. Ward, Iron & Wine, Xavier Rudd. I have spent the last two years traveling in a van, on a bicycle, and on my feet and my real biggest influences are the people, environments, and situations I encounter as I share my music and words with the folks and the birds around me.
| Name |
Role |
| Brett Nelson |
Vocals/Guitar |
Paul Simon, Devendra Banhart, Bob Dylan, Will Oldam, Calexico, Cat Power, Vetiver, Greg Brown, Howe Gelb, Xavier Rudd, Bright Eyes, Nick Drake, Smog, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Apostle of Hustle, Iron & Wine, Mississippi John Hurt, Elvis Perkins, Bicycles, Thunderstorms, Currituck County, Akron Family, Gram Parsons, Townes Van Zandt, Bonnie Prince Billy, Gillian Welch, Fionn Regan
| FANS |
PLAYLISTED |
TOTAL PLAYS |
| 5 |
14 |
686 |
Posted by Brett Nelson on Jul 21, 2008
So..first blog of the trip. Bright and early tomorrow morning I leave Medicine Hat with a bicycle, a guitar, and some essential livings (tape recorder, sleeping bag, pocket knife)... Running circles today to get everything together...quite dizzying..so stoked for tomorrow.. … READ MORE
