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I was Critics Pick in THE OREGONIAN and got a nice preview in the WILLAMETTE WEEK. Here's what they had to say...

Brady Harris (9 p.m., Tugboat Brewery): Formerly with a Replacements-inspired rock band called the Solid Goldsteins, this L.A.-based Texan moves toward folk and pop in his solo work (as has Replacements maestro Paul Westerberg, come to think of it). On his newest disc, Good Luck Stranger, the music has a kind of rumpled charm, and Harris' sweet, laid-back rasp recalls such singers as John Lennon and Peter Case.
-Marty Hughley, THE OREGONIAN (Critic's Pick)

Somewhere along the way, mainstream country stopped fearing for its heart and started worrying more about its wallet, but some true believers still remember sadness. Brady Harris, a Texan marinated in that state's tradition of hard-bitten songwriting, keeps desolation close at hand. A youth spent listening to Waylon and Willie left a country bedrock that not even prolonged wanders in Europe and America could cloak. When Harris runs down the hopelessness of a small-town dead-end in his song "Houston," the boom is softened by his sweet style, but it descends all the same.
-Zach Dundas, WILLAMETTE WEEK