Award-winning Houston Texas-based Americana/folk singer-songwriter Brian Kalinec’s  new CD, The Fence, released in May, is the follow-up to Last Man Standing, his 2007 Berkalin Records debut.  The Fence is a collection of stories in song that relate to the value of work and or effort in one way or another – from building a fence to cutting stone, from choosing a career over a relationship to losing a job, from homelessness to home repairs, from Teddy Roosevelt’s star-crossed river adventure in the jungles of South America to a woman whose life is forever affected by her boyfriend’s poor choices.

In his descriptive and poignant, yet musically accessible songs that were penned over the last several years, effort is sometimes rewarded and sometimes ignored, and taking the easy way out usually leads to disaster. And sometimes the less fortunate are just simply ignored.