Raised in the sweltering
heat of southeast Texas, young Brady grew up hearing the country strains
of Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings on his Mom's 8-track tape player.
Also in heavy rotation around the house were his older brother's Elton
John albums as well as some Reprise-era Sinatra and an extensive collection
of Henry Mancini records, including The Pink Panther and The
Days of Wine and Roses. It was this exposure to Henry Mancini that
first made Brady want to create music. "I wanted to be Henry Mancini,"
Brady says. Then, for his 11th birthday his older brother bought him a
copy of the Beatles' Revolver. That changed everything. "I
wanted to be Ringo," Brady says. After a succession of intermediate
and high school garage bands and trading the drums for a bass guitar and
a place in the spotlight singing, some dizzying heights of teenage success
were achieved. Instant high school fame was won at local talent shows,
replete with all the trappings of adolescent popularity including illicit
substances, groupies, and invitations to parties previously impenetrable.
The good times were not to last.
Post high school years found Brady in London, down and out (in Paris,
too) busking for lunch and pint money in the London underground (usually
at South Kensington). Lean times continued back in Texas where Brady fronted
a band called Mullberry Jane which would later become the Solid Goldsteins.
Despite an unremarkable history of gigs, the Solid Goldsteins managed
to release a remarkably fine CD in 1993 entitled No Place Like Gone.
By the end of 1994 however, the Solid Goldsteins were gone too, disbanded
for good.
Brady soon departed for L.A. where he found obscurity and B-movie extra
work. In 1997 Brady released Next Door To Nowhere which received
fine critical notice and was followed by the "Bums of London Tour
'98". Brady was a critic's pick at the 1999 NXNW Music Festival
in Portland, OR. 2000 saw the release of a new CD, Good Luck Stranger,
which went on to be named Best of 2000 in a few critics’ circles.
An acoustic tour of Belgium and Holland followed that fall.
2001 continued with
shows in NYC, Texas and LA. 2002 saw "Sunday Shining" (from
Good Luck Stranger) win 5 grand at the Pontiac Vibe Contest,
securing enough money to facilitate the recording of Lone Star,
the follow up to Good Luck Stranger. 2003 saw the release of Brady’s
3rd full length, Lone Star, which was lucky enough to garner some
sweet reviews in international print and other circles. Shows in Cali,
Texas, NYC, Liverpool & Paris soon followed.
Brady lives in North Hollywood and performs shows frequently down the
street at the Universal Bar & Grill when not hanging on the mean streets
of Toluca Lake or eavesdropping on tourists on the red line (subway).
