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Craig Scotland
 Dec 21, 05 - 7:19 PM |
BRANDON RHYDER plays MacHenrys in Fort Worth Texas – THURSDAY, December 22, 2005
THURSDAY, December 22, 2005 BRANDON RHYDER Show starts at 8pm Tickets are $5.00 www.brandonrhyder.com/ MacHenry's 7618 Camp Bowie West Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76116 817-377-0202 www.machenrys.com MacHenry's is located two blocks east of Cherry Lane which is exit 7A of I 30 West. Tickets remain at www.machenrys.com (http://www.machenrys.com/) Brandon Rhyder turned down five music scholarships because he couldn’t envision a career as a band director. It wasn’t until after he graduated college with a degree in industrial technology that he picked up a guitar and realized he was destined to perform – and even to direct bands. Just not the kind involving woodwinds and marching. A back-roads boy from Carthage in Northeast Texas, Rhyder says his roots “are painted in country tones.” Not Texas country, not Nashville country, not old or new country. Just … country. The kind of place where songs still say something, where emotions are meant to be bared, where a man onstage alone with his guitar can captivate a crowd, one smile or teardrop at a time. Rhyder’s third album, “Conviction,” on his own Dogwood Hill label, is filled with the sort of music that a loving husband and expectant father in his early 30s is likely to make: equal parts realism and hope, experience and dreams. Yeah, he’s still married to his high-school sweetheart, Kelli, and they’re still in love. But yeah, he’s been knocked around the block a little bit by the music biz and life in general – and maybe that’s not such a bad thing. “I was as green as I could be. I didn’t know anything,” Rhyder admits of those early days after he moved from Tyler to Austin in 1999 to pursue his music career. “I had no idea how much work was involved. But I can say in the same breath, this has never been work to me. It’s never been like having a job. I’ve loved it, every bit of it.” Rhyder put together his first band in 2000 and recorded his first album, “Because She Loves Me,” in 2001. “Behind the Pine Curtain” followed in 2003. In 2004, Rhyder went solo and began performing acoustic shows in various Texas venues. “I think I’ve grown more in the last year simply from not having a band and having to step onstage with just my guitar and vocals, and doing a show with other songwriters, especially established songwriters that have invited me into their world,” Rhyder says, mentioning in particular Austin-based artist Walt Wilkins, and Nashvillian Darrell Scott. “I had to put it all on the line. It taught me to write better. And perform better. I think when you’re naked that way, you’d better be able to do something to hold a crowd, or it’s gonna go downhill quick. “Conviction’s” 15 tracks leave no doubt that Rhyder’s skilled at what he does. On the opening vocal track, “Freeze Frame Time,” he puts himself in a father’s shoes, to eloquent effect; in “Man of Conviction,” he sings of someone whose life hasn’t gone all that well. “A Storm Blew In” is a tale about losing love; “Go Back In Fool” is about rescuing it. “I try to write simply,” Rhyder says. “You know where I stand. But I try to say it a little bit differently than maybe you’ve heard it before.” Spoken like a true songwriter, one who’s been influenced equally by John Denver (whose presence can almost be felt in track 13, “Losing the War”), Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty and the Highwaymen. He’s also a big Keith Gattis fan; “Conviction” contains Rhyder’s cover of Gattis’ “California.” “This is the album that I always wanted to make,” he says of “Conviction,” which Wilkins produced, and which features Scott on the track, “Merry Go Round.” Other contributors to the disc, recorded in Nashville, are Doug Kahan on bass; Mike Daly on steel guitar and dobro; Mickey Grimm on drums; Rick Plant on lead guitar; Bruce Wallace on electric guitar; Tim Lorsch on fiddle, loboy and mandolin; and Jessica Murray, Marsha Ramirez, Britt Savage and Susan Gibson on backing vocals. He’s putting together a new band to tour behind the album. Rhyder’s quick to point out that the title has nothing to do with the down-and-out “Man of Conviction.” “I named it ‘Conviction’ simply because of my belief in this record,” he says. “The songs are great and the production amazing. I love to listen to this record and to hear it on the radio, and I will put it in front of anybody in the business and say, ‘Check this out!’ “Conviction,” Rhyder adds, “the belief that my time is now.” by Lynne Margolis We also have a brand new batch of shows booked and up on our box office at: www.machenrys.com_ (http://www.machenrys.com/) Just follow the box office link.....................have a look at who's coming: 12/31/2005 Saturday - SARA HICKMAN BAND 9pm $27.00 Thanks Craig Scotland Smith Scotland Productions smithscotland |
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