Artist description Colin Brooks creates a certain nocturnal intimacy with a voice that is Dark and wistful and haunted. His cadence is full of character, with sudden halts and long, whispery extensions of phrasings. He always Finds the sweet notes and intertwines his voice with his guitar, which Sometimes echoes up from such an ancient place it seems primordial. Some of his songs are like hypnotic fairy tails; in Remember, we’re drawn in With a simple, strummed guitar line, the bittersweet narrative Building along with the melody. The rawness of emotion in his voice is tempered by the delicate chord progressions. He pull us in two directions, like the lovers who are haunted by their own happier times. Nobody, this song is sort of Chet Baker meets Ry Cooder and they take Robbie Robertson for all he’s worth in a billiards game in some Louisiana dive. It’s all barroom slinky cool piano locked in heart to heart with slidey, swamp dong, shimmery guitar and that voice soaked With desolation and recognition of exactly how much has been lost. This recording provides a range of work—from syncopated, tight Bluesy frameworks, ironic cowboy songs, a Santa Fe country rap to More restrained, melodic pieces with sophisticated—yet not overproduced—overlays and melting guitar detours. Whether He’s delving into a female perspective (Mr. Right) or turning a classic (Lay Lady Lay) into something a little different, he envelopes the Listener in a dense world of yearnings and psychic underbrush.

Music Style swamp rock alt. country

Musical Influences Chris Whitley, Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, John Hiatt

Similar Artists Chris Whitley, Ben Harper

Artist History Abe Olman songwriting scholarship 2002

Instruments Dobro, Guitars

Albums Chippin' Away at the Promised Land

Press Reviews "Colin Brooks is a new artist to NYC from New Mexico. You don't know him yet but soon will" Billboard

Location austin, texas - USA

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