Album Notes

Biography
BRAD BURNS "YOUR SMILE" COMPILATION:

"I started playing Country music because I liked what I was hearing, about believing in being a proud American, about my life out in the mountains and forests of the California/Oregon border, in a town with a population of 800 people, about one hundred miles away from any city...County fairs and working with land and with our horses and cows and chickens, shotguns and campfires…Running from bears, being between mountain lions and elk and deer, and living through wildfires and floods....Highway hay runs...About my family's daily story, and learning to be tough...All that gets told in Country songs...And I believe that is an important story that someone has to continue to tell and stand up for...And that's where Country boys come in that are willing to fight hard enough to tell that story..."--Brad Burns

With Brad Burns' "Your Smile" compilation, Burns’ songs are stories of life as he's known it in the Western United States. His latest CDBaby release is "Country Walk”. Brad's future releases will continue to focus on his unique Western American experience.

Brad has opened for Country music's Terri Clark (2005), Gospel's Warren Barfield (2007) at the Siskiyou County Golden Fair in Yreka, CA, and had six months of radio play with two of his songs on KSYC radio in Siskiyou County and Southern Oregon. In 2007, Burns visited the Hawaiin island of Maui and did a Native American and Country music show at the Karuk Tribe in California. Brad’s “Wrong Number In Nashville” EP ranked in at number four in the genre of Country Rodeo on CDBaby.com’s “Editor’s Picks” with Country legend Chris LeDoux’s group’s latest release coming in at number one in 2008. Burns spent 2008 living in Oregon, working in Country music as a band leader/manager/booking playing bars while going to college, and all of summer 2009 performing his Country music show at Music City Bar in Nashville, TN. Brad is working towards a college degree.

Burns performs his song "Letters" at shows as well. Brad has spent summers swimming in the creeks, and growing up with United States military buddies pre and post deployments and communicating during their deployment, from 2003 to today. Through those experiences, he continually finds the inspiration for his song "Letters" in the bravery and compassionate hearts of his buddies in the United States military and the many US veterans he is proud to call his friends. Brad writes all the lyrics to all his songs.

Brad began songwriting at the age of twelve in a Southern Californian town close to the U.S./Mexico border. Brad taught himself to play bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, drums and keyboard. He continuously studies songwriting and vocal techniques. He learned the intricacies of digital music recording software, studio performing (recording) all the vocals (of his original lyrics) and recording all of the instruments (except harmonica) on all his album releases, and designing album art; ultimately producing his record albums, live shows and concerts.

Brad currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is a working Country music entertainer--just as he set out to be--back on a dirt road in the mountains and forests of the California/Oregon border.

Copyright © 2007-2009 Bradley Burns