


The latest single from singer-songwriter Brian Ledford, releases online Friday, October 2nd. A date picked due to its proximity to November's mid-term elections, and because it is the anniversary of the 1967 swearing in of first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.
With a nod to his parents Oklahoma roots and that other Oklahoman and Icon of protest music, Woody Guthrie, Brian Ledford brings us a song to remind us of the enduring power of the words the Founders of the American Experiment wrote two-hundred and fifty years ago. Though flawed themselves, the Founders were firm believers in the Enlightenment. Their aspirational words transcended what was practical reality in the 18th century and still push us forward, generation after generation towards, "...a more perfect union."
The song poses a simple question: "Where Do You Stand?" and asks the listener to consider their own relationship to those words, "…all men are created equal, they are endowed by their creator certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Drawing from his roots and what’s close to his heart, Ledford creates deeply evocative songs containing rich characters and storytelling. Music as much informed by The Clash as The Flatlanders. At turns as lush as Lanois, or as direct as Cash. But always with his unique thread of introspection and melody running through it.
The back story reads like the plot from a Wallace Stegner novel: the grandson of Oklahoma concrete finishers and Texas Oilmen, is born and raised in Dallas-Fort Worth, kicks around Texas looking for a home, trying his luck in Lubbock, Fort Worth, and Austin before pulling up stakes and making for the wet of the Pacific Northwest. Like a modern-day, musical version of the great western Boomer.
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The Jewel Fades
Wrecking Ball
Miss Yesterday
Red Marker
Nothing But Skin And Bones
Kingdom Of Rust
On A Limb
Low Ebb
Eight songs that take the listener on journey from love and redemption to betrayal and despair. Turning summer day into brooding twilight like a West Texas thunderstorm sweeping across the high plains. Hailed as “…one cool ass country-jazz-cow-punk-excursion.“ “From Sunlight Into Shadow” is Country without the straw.”
Marooned
The Truth and Love
Stones on the Bottom of the Sea
Anywhere You Go
Borderline
The Plan (is Revealed)
Judging from Safe Distance
Sensible
Back and Forth
Sun Down
Praised as, “having moments of originality that shove this album way beyond the usual run-of-the-mill,” welcomed as “a unique voice in Americana music.” With the title track garnering #5 top track of 2009 by Shotgun Majors, on KRVM Radio.