Brian Lee
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My life has been a battle between my creative and my self- destructive tendencies. Sometimes the self-destructive side, actually feeds the creative side. As a songwriter, I try to put all those experiences into each one of my songs.” - Brian Lee Robinson
The best songwriters tap into life’s ups and downs and then deliver those powerful emotions through lyrics and melody. Perhaps no one knows this fact better than a singer/songwriter from Texas named Brian Lee Robinson. Over the years, armed with only a pen and six-string, he has turned his own demons into his life’s work, using them for fodder for his songs.
Brian Lee says his dad was a Songwriter, also. Probably much better than me. He was ahead of his time. He had a hit on Hank Thompson back in the 50’s. It was very cool when Hank Thompson cut one of mine 40 years later. My dad was a bad alcoholic, he accomplished at lot from a little house in Donie, Texas. Still he was too sick to go to Nashville by himself. Otherwise, I might be a spoiled rich kid now. “My dad’s demons took him at an early age, but not before his love of country music wore off on me.”
Brian was 15 when he started having lyric ideas, lines, and Song Hooks come into his head. By 17, he had notebooks full of “This Junk. I decided I needed to learn to play the guitar, so I could put some melodies to them. By the time he was in his late teens, he was not only playing guitar and composing songs, but playing Bass in a Houston-based band.
At the age of twenty-two, after graduating Texas A&M, Brian packed up a trailer and headed off to Music City, U.S.A. He found himself working odd jobs on Music Row in Nashville, “I was living that starving artist life - I was crazy, constantly battling my self-destructive habits.” Brian’s big break came when he met Songwriter and guitarist, Jerry Barlow - who helped him get a job as a tape copier at Merit Music in Nashville. This led to opportunities to write with the staff writers there.
During the 1980s, Brian met many other songwriters including Roger Alan Wade, Keith Palmer, Eddie Burton, Buck Moore and Mentor Williams. He also landed many cuts from the likes of “Whispering Bill” Anderson, Roger Alan Wade, Tom Grant, Jack Greene and, as he said, Hank Thompson. However, Brian’s most celebrated chart success came in 1985 when a song of his and Barlow ‘s entitled “You Lifted Me High Enough” - performed by The Mercey Brothers – peaked at number ten on the Canadian Country Charts.
In the 1990s, Robinson formed his own publishing company with Roger Alan Wade. They came very close to “having it all”, when Roger Alan Wade landed a deal with Curb Records and cut an album with producer Chuck Howard. The album had five songs that they owned publishing on. “We put a lot of hopes and dreams into that, and it would have been a great album, but unfortunately it was never released,” offers Brian. “Roger is an amazing Singer/Songwriter most people never got a chance to hear. “Very sad loss for Country Music and Roger, he worked hard and deserved a shot.
The stress of, yet another, near-success and Brian Lee’s constant battle with addictions caused him to move back home to Texas in 1999 to regain control of his life. He gives some personal insight, “I was battling my own problems and I needed to step away from the music business for a while - but I never quit writing.” Away from Music City, Brian completely rebuilt his life, tamed his demons … and kept true to his songwriting. He kept in constant contact with his Nashville contacts and sending them his new demos. By 2013, he knew it was time to re-enter the music business and began working on his debut album as a singer/songwriter.
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The Beginning of a Songwriter
Aug 26, 2016
The Beginning of a Songwriter January 31, 2016Brian Lee RobinsonBrian Lee Robinson Music, Music BlogBrian Lee Robinson, Songwriter I remember that the only time I saw my dad was when I went to my grandmothers house. Later he moved to her house in the country. Donie, Texas. I remember that every Saturday night we went to Aunt Ida’s house. She had the only TV. We would watch all of the Country Music shows. Porter Wagoner, The Wilburn Brothers, and many others. Daddy loved country music. He loved Willie Nelson, back when. Willie was wearing a suit, clean shaven, and singing “The Party’s Over”, Waylon Jennings, also clean shaven, in a suit singing “Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line”. I knew daddy wrote songs, but I didn’t know he had already written a hit for Hank Thompson called “Just an old Flame” I loved his songs and looking at his lyric books. I didn’t know grandma had offered to pay his way to Nashville, and her cousin Bob Wills was willing to help out. But he wouldn’t go, I guess he was scared. I learned later that he was a bad alcoholic, and grandma was his enabler. He actually accomplished a lot from Donie. He was always sending his songs off to Nashville, and actually got a lot recorded and published. I was told many years later by an old friend Doodle Owens, that it was so easy to get songs recorded then. I could have been a spoiled rich kid living off daddy’s royalties. But he never went. He was not a big part of my life, we lived in Houston, and only saw him when grandma took us. When he died in a car crash when I was 8, I don’t remember crying. That’s where the line from my song “Across The Hands of Time” came from. “since the day my daddy died, and I learned what ambivalence was” After that, all I had was his song books. I treasured them. I used to read them all the time. I never tried to write songs myself. It was when I was 16 or so that lyrics started coming to my head. I started to write them down. Sometimes I had to pull over and write them down. That was when I started to be a Songwriter. Not a very good one, but the spark was there. 0 Brian Lee Robinson for Your Venue Clubs, Corporate Events, Fairs House Concerts Available, As Well. Booking@brianleerobinsonmusic.com Products
