Album Notes

Recorded, mixed, and mastered in the Nashville area at Red Alert Studios with Shawn Conley & Todd Sholar at the producer's helm, Bryan brings his altered tuning, sermon-songwriter style to twelve tracks with his own take on "praise" songs, Celtic, Gospel, contemporary folk, and what Bryan calls "spirit-folk".

Song lyrics & stories-behind-the-songs on "All That Matters" are available in a pdf on Bryan's website at: http://www.bryanfield.net

Two songs on "All That Matters" are fund-raisers for a couple of projects:

FIRST - A portion of the proceeds from "Enough For Everyone" will go into the National Presbyterian Hunger Program - http://www.pcusa.org/hunger/

SECOND - A portion of the proceeds from "Lyrical Freedom Riders" will go to the We Shall Overcome Fund - http://www.highlandercenter.org/wsoc-fund.asp
"Lyrical Freedom Riders" tells the story of the 1961 Freedom Riders and their brave, pivotal chapter in America's struggle for Civil Rights.

"All That Matters" includes the title track, a laid-back folksy tune exclaiming that "love is all that matters" AND "Enough For Everyone", a folk-rock wakeup-call declaring that abundance is the truth we have to share with a world frightened that there is NOT enough food, clean water, love, peace, and goodness to go around.

Guest artists on "All That Matters" include:
* Todd Sholar (various keyboards & percussion);
* Shawn Conley (bass & electric guitars);
* Geno Weatherbee (drums & percussion);
* Dale Hardiman (drums & percussion);
* Troy Engle (mandolin, octave mandolin, fiddles, dobro, banjo);
* "Cookie" Weatherbee (backing vocals);
* First Presbyterian Church choir in Gallatin, TN (backing vocals on "Lyrica (Celtic Prayer)";
* Abby Sholar (backing vocals on "Call That Christmas");
* Destiny Gleaves (backing vocals on "Enough For Everyone"); AND
* Meagan McFarland (backing vocals on "Enough For Everyone").

Bryan's professional music-related memberships include ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) and serving as Co-coordinator of the Greensboro, NC Regional Workshop of NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International).

Bryan’s calculated vocals draw comparisons to some of his contemporary influences - James Taylor, Bruce Cockburn, and David Wilcox - while his precisely-picked guitar work owes more to an experience he had when he was young: “My parents took me to a Chet Atkins concert when I was three and I was mesmerized.“ Though his songwriting seeds were sewn as a youth, it took a 1983 Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from Maryville College in Tennessee, a 1987 Master of Divinity from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and a career as a local church pastor and campus minister to send him in the direction he’s headed these days.

Bryan combines spirituality & emotional storytelling into a sentimental yet lighthearted style. He tours listening rooms, theaters and coffeehouses AND leads workshops and retreats at colleges & universities, churches, conference centers, and private venues.

An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, Bryan works part-time as Salem Presbytery's Hunger Action Advocate.

Bryan lives in Greensboro, NC with his wife, daughter, and their menagerie of pets.