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Artist: William Brooks
Website: magnatune.com/artists/william_brooks
Track Name: Maybe Meagan
Playback: mp3
Download?: Yes

Lets start with a snippet of William Brooks biography…

William Brooks’ story reads like a pack of lies but swears it’s all true. William was born and raised just north of The Red River and a tad south of The Arbuckle Mountains in southern Oklahoma. After a dismal, failed attempt at working in the oil business, Brooks packed up camp and moved to New York City. After crashing on the floor of noted author Brett Leveridge(Men My Mother Dated) he finally settled down in what he considers the smallest apartment in NYC’s last great red-light district, Hell’s Kitchen. William has acted in about a dozen movies and TV shows.

He has been detained by police on several occasions but never actually arrested, got caught in a revolving door with Bob Dylan, jumped out of more than 7 perfectly good airplanes, waitered in a Chinese restaurant earning the nickname “Sing Ging Ping” which translates to “Neurons Don’t Meet”, saw the Beatles in concert, has seen at least 4 ghosts, none of which he knew and is most proud of writing 2 songs with critically acclaimed Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm.

You can read the rest on the Magnatune site and probably should have one of his songs on in the background while you do. He sounds to me like he should be a character in a Ken Kesey novel or a Bruce Springsteen song. I am slowly working my way through his albums randomly and after a few days found that “Maybe Meagan” was stuck in my brain. I think it’s probably the guitars and the organ, anyway it’s a lovely piece of American rock music (although they have him filed under folk/rock) and the rest of the Silent Wings album is as good.

He is a good wordsmith on most of the bits I have listened to but I find his voice can get a bit samey but give “Land Of Lincoln” a listen as well. Good song.

thatch is fascinated by guitars, music, guitars, production, silly noises, guitars and used to be a musician. Did I mention the thing about the guitars?
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