music, college football ROLL TIDE!, movies, MORE MUSIC
Music
ELVIS PRESLEY, the best ever hands down. of course we perform his music at all our engagements as well as some of our other influences and favorites. i also love anything creedence, zeppelin, johnny rivers, or john prine does.
other favorites are too numerous to mention but here goes: waylon jennings, aerosmith, the swampers, jim croce, gordon lightfoot, ricky van shelton,velvet revolver,lionel richie,the band, leadbelly, lightnin hopkins, mellancamp, willie nelson, stone temple pilots, tom petty, roy orbison, doo wop of the fifties inc. the drifters, coasters, and the platters, charley pride, howlin wolf, jimmy reed, carl perkins, actually all the rockabilly artists, the entire motown sound especially the temptations, jackie wilson, otis redding, wilson pickett, kristofferson, tony joe white, ray charles, sam cooke, dean martin, dwight yoakam, bryan adams, u2, hank williams, bob dylan, marty robbins, brook benton, def leppard, jimi hendrix, the doors, muddy waters, bocephus and way too many more to mention
Movies
i like everyting especially comedies, horror, and thrillers. love the elvis concerts and also any of the bio movies on other entertainers. i am a movie buff so favorite movies are tough. my all time favorite is the first ROCKY! what a metaphor for life and the unbreakable human spirit. actually i love all six of them but no movie can compare to that first one. of course slingblade,eddie and the cruisers,daddy and them,elvis thats the way it is,dumb and dumber,halloween,all the star wars,monty pythons holy grail,tommy boy,black sheep,grumpy old men and way too much to list here.
Television
dont watch it much, maybe sportscenter and ALABAMA FOOTBALL.
Books
biographies mostly, and anything stephen king writes.
About me: I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN FLORENCE, ALABAMA, ALTHOUGH I TRAVELED AT ONE TIME QUITE A BIT PERFORMING. i AM IN THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS AND ENJOY IT VERY MUCH. I FORMED MY SHOWBAND THE RETRO RHYTHM KINGS ABOUT TWELVE YEARS AGO WITH THE CONCEPT OF NOT ONLY PUTTING TOGETHER A FIRST CLASS PROFESSIONAL TRIBUTE TO THE KING, BUT TO HONOR MUSIC FROM YEARS PAST. MY BAND NOW CONSISTS OF FIVE PIECES PLUS MY BEAUTIFUL TALENTED SINGERS COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS THE BRYANETTES. I AM BLESSED TO WORK WITH SUCH WONDERFUL MUSICIANS AND SINGERS ALL OF WHICH I HANDPICKED FROM THE GROUND UP. I LOVE IT,LOVE TO MEET NEW PEOPLE AND MERCY THE STORIES AND THINGS I HAVE TO TELL. WE STAY BUSY BUT I HAVE BEEN SLOWING DOWN MY PACE AND PERFORMING LESS IN THE PAST TWO YEARS. I AM WORKING WITH THE COLBERT COUNTY WATER DEPARTMENT AND PERFORMING ON A PART TIME LEVEL AS OPPOSED TO SINGING ALL THE TIME AS I DID FOR SO MANY YEARS. IT HAS BEEN A MAJOR ADJUSTMENT BUT I AM ENJOYING MY FREE TIME AND IT BEATS BEING GONE EVERY WEEKEND. IM A NATURAL NIGHT OWL AND PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL BE. I HAVE NEVER BEEN MARRIED BUT I HAVE ABEAUTIFUL GIRLFRIEND NAMED WENDY. THE CLOSEST PEOPLE TO ME IN MY LIFE ARE MY DAD,MY SISTER,WENDY OF COURSE, AND MY NIECE. I AM LAID BACK MOST OF THE TIME AND HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR EXCEPT WHEN IT COMES TO BAD MUSIC. LOL I LOVE MUSIC OF COURSE,THUNDERSTORMS,RAIN IN GENERAL,NIGHTIME,COLLEGE FOOTBALL,MOVIES,PEOPLE WITH A SENSE OF HUMOR AND MY NIECE ISABELLE. ESPECIALLY HER. LOL. CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.BRYANMUSE.COM. EMAIL AT MUSEBRYAN@AOL.COM OR IM ME ON MYSPACE.
I thought I would send you an invitation to come out and hear me sing. I've got 3 shows this week!
This Thursday night I'll be at J. Fiddlers cafe in Tuscumbia...the show starts at 7:30 and I'll play till 10:30. There is no cover charge and J Fiddlers servers food so there is no age limit......so come out and listen to some good music and have some good food!
Then on Sat night I have 2 shows.
First I'll be at Fizz lounge in the Holiday Inn playing with Bryan Muse and the Retro Rhythm Kings. Show starts at 8:00 and we play till about 11:00 or so. The cover charge is 5:00 Fizz servers food so there is no age limit...If you are into Elvis Bryan is one of the best tribute artists around and the opening is gonna be awesome....Jessie Lee,Hope,myself & Jonathon will all be singing some good music before Bryan comes out and does his tribute to Elvis...If you have not seen Bryan you def need to get to this show he is awesome.
Then my 2nd show sat will be at Oasis Lounge in Littleville. My band Nite-Trane is the house band @ Oasis and we play a late night show there every Sat. The cover is $4.00 and we play from 10:30 to 4:00....this is a cool show because every week after all the other clubs close the Oasis packs out and we always have guest who come out and sit in with us..in the last few weeks we've had Travis Womack, JJ Bartlett, Tammy Lawson and more sit in and jam with us.
Anyway I hope to cya at one of the shows & if you are coming do me a favor and send me a email and let me know. If you need directions to any of the shows or have and questions..drop me a mail.
Thanks a million & have a great week. Your Friend, Mark
