Music has all the time been on the core of Brandon Lee Adams’ life, proper again from when he was an eight yr previous boy in West Virginia, with Tony Rice’s Church Road Blues on repeat. From there he received into Dylan’s phrases, then Eric Clapton’s unplugged type, James Taylor’s songbooks, New Grass Revival, and Alison Krauss’s data – all had a deep affect. That love for music has seen Adams acting on phases throughout the nation, from MerleFest, to an Irish Pub Tour with Johnny Statts. Alongside the best way he’s additionally shared studios with lots of those that initially impressed him, and his guitar work has additionally featured on two Grammy Award-nominated albums.
Again in 2019, Adams’ album, ‘That I Was Leaving’, dropped three charting singles, however the Covid-19 pandemic received in the best way of his touring plans. Nonetheless, he didn’t waste his time, and, shifting his focus to TV, he created, produced, and hosted the Emmy Award profitable, ‘Life Of A Musician’, for quite a few PBS associates.
Now he’s again, writing, recording, and releasing new music. He received to file with some absolute legends as properly, together with Vince Gill, Tim O’Brien, John McEuen, John Jorgenson, and Glenn Worf – a once-in-a-lifetime lineup. Brandon Lee Adams’ newest single, ‘I’ll Observe Summer season’, sees him replicate on the previous, with gratitude, whereas wanting with anticipation and pleasure at what lays forward.
Directed by his spouse Mindy, together with Wilky Black of Hayzens Productions behind the digital camera, the music video for ‘I’ll Observe Summer season’ is properly crafted because it reveals each participant on display screen, facet by facet, within the studio. Talking of the clip, Adams says, “The idea was to simply present everybody backstage. That is what it seems like and seems like to do that”. It’s pleasant and homey – a gathering of associates getting collectively for a natter as they jam. There’s consolation and love in that room, every member considering the phrases and music which means a lot to him.
Following ‘I’ll Observe Summer season’, Adams has plans to launch extra music, together with a reimagined model of Gordon Lightfoot’s, ‘Track for a Winter’s Evening’, and a reside duet of, ‘I Lengthy for 17’, together with his late good friend Tony Rice. Subsequent spring he’s booked to headline the Hippodrome in Richmond, plus some extra college dates, in addition to a full size album deliberate for subsequent yr.
Watch the poignant music video for ‘I’ll Observe Summer season’ under, and discover out extra about Brandon Lee Adams and his music on-line on his official web site, Instagram, and Spotify.
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