This introductory CD includes 12 songs selected by Austin, Texas producer Paul Pearcy as most representative of the Americana R&B that Bruce Brittain creates. The songs range from the snarky opening cut, Wouldn’t You, which asks the listener if they would really turn down some casual, no risk sex, to the melancholy Silences that explores love’s opposite, apathy. There’s a song about a woman who is eternally optimistic about her chances for romance and another about a woman who found her life’s mate when he paid to dance with her in a Depression-era Baltimore dancehall. There are two-step tunes, straight ahead blues, jazzy swing, ballads, country highbrow and a New Orleans riff on Bring Me to My Knees.

His music convinced some great musicians to help bring it to a larger audience via this debut CD project, Blue Sunday. Included in that group are Floyd Domino; formerly keyboard player for Asleep at the Wheel, Glenn Fukunaga; bass player for Joe Ely and Terri Hendrix, Bradley Kopp; session guitar player supreme who once backed Johnny Cash, Paul Pearcy; percussionist for Terri Hendrix and who toured with the Indigo Girls, John Hagen; cellist for Lyle Lovett, Cindy Cashdollar; the steel guitar and Dobro player who regularly appears on A Prairie Home Companion, fiddle player Richard Bowden from the Susan Gibson Band, mandolin player and band leader Billy Bright, accordion magician Ponty Bone, vocalists Kristine Dewitt and Bruce’s younger brother Barry.

If you like Austin-influenced Americana music then there is much to enjoy in this debut CD by a singer/songwriter who has lived enough of life to create songs that include insight, irony, humor, sentiment and a groove.