Brant Lee Croucher
July 26
730 PM
Advance Tickets:
$15.00
Ticket price at the door: $16.00
Preferred seating for dinner guests.
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Two years ago, Brant Lee Croucher was driving up and down Dickerson Pike in Nashville, delivering pizzas at night to hotel rooms that rented by the hour.
He’ d moved to the Music City from his hometown of Houston, Texas— where he worked a nine-to-five in the healthcare industry—to hone his craft as a songwriter. And, he says, “ to hit the reset button on my life.”
Turns out delivering pizzas wasn’ t his thing—neither was making lattes during the graveyard shift at the airport Starbucks—but the time he spent in Nashville was valuable. “ It refocused me,” says Croucher. “ Being out of your element creates a lot of new emotions, a lot of new perspectives on old ones, and a lot of new songs came from that.”
Croucher is a classically trained pianist and a self-taught guitarist. He wrote his first song at age 12—“ lyrically, it was probably on par with a Nickelback love song,” he jokes— and, after college in Denton, Texas, he set off for Tennessee. After Nashville there was Austin, where he made a living working various jobs: realtor, day laborer, bartender,telemarketer—but also regularly playing shows in several top Hill Country venues.
His efforts have not gone unnoticed. His song, “ California World Away,” was an honorable mention in American Songwriter’ s lyric contest, and, with only a few performances under his belt, beat out dozens of other musicians for a top spot in a songwriter’ s showcase at the vaunted Bugle Boy listening room in La Grange, Texas, where many noted artists make stops.
All of those things inspired Croucher’ s country and pop-savvy Americana debut album, Old Denton Roads. Croucher played guitar, piano and harmonica on the album, which he recorded in Austin with Andy Sharp, who’ s worked with Sheryl Crow and Bob Schneider. Each song telling a relatable story, whether warm and wistful, or witty and whiskey-drenched. Or all of the above.
“ I just want to write stuff that means something to others,” says Croucher.
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