Tom Brosseau

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Saw this guy play at the Fat Cat showcase at SXSW right before Animal Collective.

I was really impressed straight off. A straighter Devendra Banhart with a much better voice and way better songs? He had some really cool songs with super trad lyrics and this keening high-pitched voice.

Anyhow, does anyone know much about him? Sounds like Fat Cat is putting out a comp featuring songs from earlier releases.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Thursday, 23 March 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

hes from th heartland and is a super sweet guy and is totally humble entertainer and writes great songs and is nice.i booked him about 3 or 4 yrs ago upstate..

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 24 March 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, Tom Brosseau is the man. His album last year "What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye" was in my rotation for quite a while. He's a big fan of the blues standards. He's a talented guy, to be sure.

If you really want a treat, cue up Kexp.org and go to the live performance archives. He has one on there and it's really nice.

Gotta love the live archive!

― your left shoulder (D.J.), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

agreed, terrfic live. this is what someone who only listens to house/techno also listens too (to reference that other thread)

― twelve, Friday, 24 March 2006 06:33 (twenty years ago)

I've seen Tom several times at Largo. Great, sincere performer. Has a live album and a couple of independent releases that are pretty much only available at Lou's in San Diego in addition to "What I Mean to Say is Goodbye". He's also half of the group Les Shelleys, which is also awesome - the cover of "Rum and Coca cola" is amazing. Also, there's a miniset you can stream on the Largo site largo-la.com including a pretty good cover of "To Ramona"

― a, Friday, 24 March 2006 08:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wfmu.org/~doug/besttom2.jpg ..oh yeah and he's really hot.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Friday, 24 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

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