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Brian Laidlaw

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  • Genre: Americana / Folk / Indie

    Location Minneapolis, Minnesota, US

    Profile Views: 25809

    Last Login: 3/26/2012

    Member Since 10/3/2005

    Website www.brianlaidlaw.com

    Record Label Garagista Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Brian Laidlaw is a poet and folk songwriter from Northern California. After several years touring the country as a folksinger, he is currently working toward an M.F.A. in poetry at the University of Minnesota.
  • Members

    Brian Laidlaw - Songwriting, Guitar, Vocals; Antja Thompson - Fiddle, Vocals
  • Influences

    Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Joanna Newsom, Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Sounds Like

    Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, The Mountain Goats, Willy Mason, Bright Eyes, Josh Ritter

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  • Ava Manson

    just dropin in to say Hi!

    3 years ago
  • Matt Rivers

    Hiya,

    How's it going? There is a free track available for you at the moment on our myspace page. Just click the FREE DOWNLOAD box at the top of the page and enter a valid email to download the tune. How cool is that!

    Have a great week and thank you very much for being electronically connected to us as friends and fans.

    Much love,

    Matt Rivers xxx

    3 years ago
  • Sonia Wilson

    I love "friends i never knew"... Hope to hear you play it live someday.

    Any trip to Europe planned anytime soon? I'll be playing music and living in Cambridge (uk) with Thomas next year, hope you'll pop by for a visit and a jam' - we found a house with a one acre garden and a pool room (and three strangers and a cat)

    :)

    J'espere que tu te portes bien.
    xoxo

    3 years ago
  • 4 years ago
  • sonia wilson

    'People disagreeing everywhere you look, makes you wanna stop and read a book ... If I had wings and I could fly, I know where I would go. But right now I'll just sit here contentedly and watch the river flow.' (Bob Dylan)

    I spent christmas by a river, staying at my parent's house in Burgundy (France).

    On the way back to Paris, in the car, I listened to two of your songs and wondered where you're at. Hope you're having a lovely holiday season and hope to hear from you sometime :)

    ps: I'm still waiting more or less patiently for that CD you once promised to send me...

    4 years ago
  • Graeme Mullen

    what is neo-folk? isn't that an oxymoron?

    this sounds like california laidlaw folk to me. and i lurv it.

    5 years ago
  • 5 years ago
  • Sonia Wilson

    Nice new tunes ... i like their live feel, very natural sounding. I hope you're doing alright. I've been told you're a travelling man.

    5 years ago
  • Sonia Wilson

    I'm in Oregon,heading to California in a few days... Where are you?

    5 years ago
  • Sonia Wilson

    how was your trip? are you ok? remember me?

    5 years ago
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Bio:

Brian Laidlaw is a folk poet, songwriter, and performer from Northern California. He studied creative writing at Stanford and spent a term abroad, taking tutorials in formal poetry at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. While in England he began setting his poems to music, and performed them to enthusiastic crowds at small cafes and underground pubs. One of these pieces, “The Ballad of Jotham,” later won American Songwriter Magazine’s lyric contest in March, 2007.

Brian’s early compositions became Quarter-Life , a self-published chapbook of poetry that included a CD, affixed inside the front cover, with musical versions of the written work. Since then Brian has recorded several more albums, the most recent of which, Fond Memories of Sound, was released by Garagista Music.

After a few years of rambling and performing around the U.S., Brian entered the University of Minnesota creative writing program in Fall ‘08, where he is working toward an M.F.A. in poetry. He continues to perform regularly in the Twin Cities, and plans to tour the Midwest and West Coast in summer ’09.

Member Since:

October 03, 2005

Members:

Brian Laidlaw - Songwriting, Guitar, Vocals;
Antja Thompson - Fiddle, Vocals

Influences:

Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Wilco, Joanna Newsom, Neutral Milk Hotel

Sounds Like:

Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, The Mountain Goats, Willy Mason, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists

Record Label:

Garagista Music

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