Well I must say I am a bit late in posting on this little project from Andrew Bryant, but better late than never!
Andrew Bryant has been circling the fringe of my listening for a little bit now – often due to musical suggestions from my good friends over at Yer Bird Records. These suggestions lead me on a journey into finding some more of this talented countrified songwriter’s recordings. My journey recently led me to his newly created website and with it brought access to his “Hurricane Blues” digital EP. The EP is themed and recorded following the disastrous Hurricane Katrina which left a massive mess (both physically and emotionally for all those involved) in the southern United States. This is the background to this 2 track EP, so expect no love for authority figures and unfortunate descriptions of those who had to live through the natural disaster.
“Hurricane Blues” is basically just Bryant and a guitar and has a bluesy, southern feel. The content of the lyrics aside, you still feel like a true Americana recording persona from Bryant’s delivery – almost a drawl that he might be holding back on.
Mr. Bryant is starting to be quite the prolific singer songwriter in the last few years and look out for 2009 as he will be bombarding us with up to 3 more releases – sounds good to me. Signed to Magnolia State Records which I believe is his own growing label and located there are links to all his albums with sample tracks for every single release! While I will start you off with Hurricane Blues, please swing on by and check out some of his other works, as he delivers many more aspects of his Americana recordings than these sparse recordings suggest.
~Smansmith
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