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Veteran Texas songwriter Brian Lee Robinson’s debut solo project features a raw and real collection of twelve classic country songs.
Brian Lee Robinson is a veteran Texas songwriter who has spent years deep in the trenches of Nashville. Over the decades, he’s gleaned cuts from the likes of country legends “Whispering Bill” Anderson, Jack Greene, and Hank Thompson. However, Brian Lee has recently decided to release his début solo project. It features a raw and real collection of twelve all-original songs that are all Written with Blood.

The first single to be released off Written with Blood is entitled “That Old Cat.” Harkening back to the honky-tonk sounds of the 60s and 70s, “That Old Cat” stands out as a ‘Johnny Cash meets Townes Van Zandt’ collision of classic country. In fact, the song is a biographical examination of Brian Lee’s own struggles with addiction, juxtaposed against the love and loss of a pet. “That Old Cat” is a heartfelt, introspective story of just how important animals are as companions to humans and just how hard it is when it’s time to say goodbye. The entire album examines the extremes of human emotion, from sadness to satire and even good ole’ honky-tonk humor.
Aside from “That Old Cat,” there’s eleven other offerings within Written with Blood. The title track, “Written in Blood,” is a composition dedicated to all the unknown songwriters around the world. “I realize it takes a lot of heart and soul to write a good song and for a lot of writers, those tunes show their own lifeblood on paper.” Another poignant composition on the album is “Across the Hands of Time” – a song about the death of Robinson’s father, a tortured songwriter himself.
Written with Blood isn’t over-polished and over-produced plastic pop-country. Instead, this album is all Brian Lee Robinson. From pen and paper to production and mixing – even the album art – was all put together with the blood sweat and tears of the artist. This project and its retro sound absolutely reaches “Across the Hands of Time” from an era when country music and storytelling was a genuine art. With tongue-in-cheek, Robinson touts himself to friends as “The lost love-child of Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.” Maybe he isn’t joking and a DNA is in order? After all … it’s Written with Blood!
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