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Mark Brine
Mark Brine has been
writing, performing and producing Americana music for  well
over three decades – long before it became, what it is considered today
to be, a viable music genre.
Americana music is just a
relatively new name for music whose roots can be traced to some of the
oldest music in America. It is a blend of folk, country and blues. Brine
further defines his brand of Americana with songs that are superior
studies of love, life and times past, songs that tell stories, songs that
make you cry, & songs that move you. His recordings take the listener
on a journey from early rural American roots music through it's spillover
into the blues to a place where some people are in fact shy! Where life is
still precious and significant and death is still a heartbeat that can
shatter a soul.
In 1995, Gavin first gave the genre credibility when it
established the Americana Music Chart. "Established as an
'Alternative-Country' base, Americana® is the vast musical ground between
Country and A3. Home to more than singer/songwriters and country legends,
Americana® is a growing format of quality roots music." It includes
new artists as well as older icons such as Jimmie Rodgers and Hank
Williams Sr. who have influenced alternative country and remains an
alternative to the current offerings of the music industry.
As Tom Cox wrote in the Guardian Media, "It has yet to
be processed by major label vultures … it could be that its intrinsic
elements are just too complex and timeless to be diluted." Or in
other words, the music industry has yet to figure out a way to
commercialize it. But authenticity cannot be cloned and while the record
companies were brainstorming trying to figure out what the public wanted,
the under promoted, profoundly anti-pop, 'O Brother Where Art Thou'
soundtrack sold well over 3 millions copies largely on word of mouth and
won album of the year at the 2002 Grammy Awards. Which proves that with
more access to information, more places to get music, people are making up
their own minds about what they like, as opposed to what's made readily
available.
Mark Brine has a long and distinguished career deeply rooted
in country music and American music history as well. Brine grew up in
Cambridge, Massachusetts and began his career playing at the age of 13. In
his 20s, he moved to Nashville and signed with two record labels as both a
staff writer and roster artist. For more about Mark, visit his web site at
http://markbrine.com.
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