Brady Harris Band
BRADY HARRIS
Ukulele Days by Brady Harris
UKULELE DAYS
Ukulele Days is a full-length record of originals and covers of Donovan, The Beatles, Keren-Ann, Gerry Rafferty, The Beach Boys & Squeeze.
REVIEW from [ Pure Pop Radio ]
Brady Harris | Ukulele Days
We've been happily playing Brady Harris's music on Pure Pop Radio for many years, enjoying his creativity and melodic gifts, album after album. So it was with great pleasure that we played this new album, released just two weeks ago. Centered around the glorious sounds of the ukulele, this entrancing mix of originals and covers makes for a beautiful listening experience. From his gorgeous cover of Brian and Carl Wilson's "Good Timin'," which features Brady's vocal harmony stacks to magical effect, to the perfect-for-a-summer's-day sojourn, banjo accented "Welcome Me Back," this is one of the best albums we've heard in a long while. We're playing the entire run of songs, including the ones just mentioned. And: "'Til the End of Days," "Wear Your Love Like Heaven," "Save Yer Love for Me," "I'll Miss These Days," "Right Down the Line," "End of May," "Points of View," "Lauren, Lauren," "This Boy," "Bring Flower Power Back," and the wonderful instrumental, "Camarillo Beach," which wouldn't have been out of place on the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album. Nice job, Brady. Very, very nice.
-Alan Haber
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Cover Charge by Brady Harris
COVER CHARGE
An "all-covers" record including Brady's take on Madonna, Cheap Trick, The Beatles, Oasis, The Vines, Duran Duran, The Killers, The Clash & Motorhead.
"Truly, a cover masterpiece." -Ripple Effect (ripplemusic.blogspot.com)
"Brady has delivered one of the finest, most unique collections of cover songs we've ever heard!" --KoolKat Musik (www.koolkatmusik.com)
RIPPLE EFFECT (Full Review):
There's two lines of thought on a cover album. One says you play it straight; that the greatest feat is to really play like the band being covered. The other goes the exact opposite way. Re-interpret the song in as radical a style as you can. Run it through your own musical blender, pour out the contents across your stylings, and see how it tastes. Personally, I prefer, the later. There's nothing as much fun as hearing a song you know and love, totally re-imagined in bold and startling ways. That's what Brady Harris does.
A low-key, rootsy singer/songwriter from Texas, on Cover Charge Brady takes some of the most unexpected songs you can imagine a cowboy songsmith to be singing and turns them into startlingly new pieces of music. Versions no person could resist.
So what am I talking about? How about a warm and languid version of Madonna's "Like a Virgin," sung perfectly straight without any Weird Al irrelevance. It's a fantastic, absolutely addictive version. As is his slide-guitar, lazy version of Duran Duran's "Rio." Under Brady's vision, The Clash's "Spanish Bombs," takes on a full, over-the-hills country charm, But nothing can ever be as just flat out perfect as his low-toned, deep acoustic and slide guitar version of Motorhead's "Ace of Spades." I played this one for Pope and he was stunned by the brilliance in this interpretation of the track. The true strength of Lemmy's song writing becomes oh, so apparent. Truly, a cover masterpiece.
-Ripple Effect (ripplemusic.blogspot.com)
North Hollywood Skyline by Brady Harris
NORTH HOLLYWOOD SKYLINE
"Outstanding follow up to 2003's "Lone Star" album bridging the divide between country and the Beatles." (Rated 9 on a scale of 10) -Mark Whitfield, AMERICANA-UK (www.americana-uk.com)
"North Hollywood Skyline" ended up in several "Top 10 of the Year" lists including Americana-UK, Altcountry.NL, & Birmingham Weekly.
NoHo Calling
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A short day's journey into a long NoHo night, NoHo Calling is the follow up to the Brady Harris Band's debut, NoHo Confidential. Recorded by John Adair at his Nodondo Studios, NoHo Calling features 10 new original songs and 2 covers, Our Lips Are Sealed (The Go-Go's) & I've Seen That Face Before/Libertango (Grace Jones).
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Raise A Glass 3:21
Better Late Than Never 2:42
Our Lips Are Sealed 3:59
The NoHo Sound 1:49
The NoHo Sound
I Think I Know 3:55
I Think I Know
Love Will Break You 2:03
Love Will Break You
Old Drunk Motherfuckers 4:31
Old Drunk Motherfuckers
I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) 3:45
I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)
Drain Me 3:02
Drain Me
Let The Light Shine 3:07
Let The Light Shine
Battle Of Swankershim 1:58
Battle Of Swankershim
Awhile back I was approached by head of A&R at Ostereo Records out of Manchester, UK to do an EP for them (under a moniker). We agreed to terms and then Johnny (John Adair, my lead guitarist and producer) set to work recording a 4 song release (2 originals/2 covers). Ostereo named us "The Grand", which made me laugh with it's rock-star inferred pretensions. Then Johnny pointed it was more an honest, blue collar economic statement on John & I's fortunes, being that we are both indeed true thousandaires, So, "The Grand" seemed to fit. (The other name they almost used was "The Arizonas".). Also, part of the deal was the 2 cover songs had to be drawn from the Spotify Global Top 100 (who knew such a list even existed?). That was an an education and an undertaking. Most of those songs aren't on my radar. But after careful auditing, note-taking and nights of beer sipping and strumming (a night like any other night, in other words) I narrowed the list down to a half a dozen and I ultimately decided on "There For You" by Martin Garrix & "Young, Dumb & Broke" by Khalid.
There was a weird bit of timing when recording my song "Santa Rosa". Johnny and I were recording in Santa Barbara and I'd just cut the vocals and a few days later the awful, devestating Santa Rosa fires had broken out in Northern California. We're mixing the song by then and I'm singing over and over, "Santa Rosa, you're my fire."