Dan Brusseau - singer-songwritter
Dan Brusseau
I am a San Francisco Bay Area based singer/songwriter/bassist/keyboardist and guitar player. I started in the East Bay garages, church halls and gymnasiums of the 60's and graduated to the night clubs of Hayward, Berkeley, San Francisco and Marin County in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Writing and recording are now my medium of choice. I aim for poetry and remain hopeful that, more often than not, I hit my target. I'm also hopeful that you will find something here in my STORE that will strike a chord.
Squatterville Empire (2014) When I learned that the town I live in was called Squatterville in the post-gold rush pre-Civil War times, it stirred up something inside that I thought might be artistically useful. A little digging revealed that much of the settlement was made up of gold miners down from the Sierras. And that name - Squatterville. It stuck. And that was all it took.
It's not a specific place or time on this record but something in the air. A lively darkness. A little bit scary and exhilarating at the same time. Populated by lost souls searching for something high and low. The poets, the miner, the wanderer, the blind preacher, the gypsy fortune tellers, the gunslinger, the ghost...
This is Squatterville. My town. My empire.
Talisman (2009) This one deeply explores and expands on the poetic themes and powerful grooves of the 2006 album I See Faces. With the brilliant lead guitar work of Stef Burns again prominently featured, this robust rock'n'roll collection is infused with tribal funk, blues, rockabilly and reggae influences. The topics examine both the dark and light places of our inner selves and the world that we live in.
I See Faces (2006) Here is a rock'n'roll gumbo seasoned with added elements of funk, latin, reggae, blues, jazz, gospel and southern swamp. It featues muscular grooves and the incendiary lead guitar work of Stef Burns. Lyrically, this one trolls the depths of the psyche to the heights of folly, from the apocalyptic struggle to survive to the the joy of life itself. Throughout, this is a wide ranging record both in sound and poetic substance
Rock On.