ADRIAN: Highway 80

Adrian

Highway 80

© 2007 Adrian (796873012577)

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An eclectic combination of Blues, Western and Folk music describing today’s modern cowboy and ranch life with yesterday’s heroes. The CD expresses powerful, rich female vocals with mature, original and developed lyrics.

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This is hardcore Buckaroo music. You won’t find “camp cookie” and “pretty little horses” in Buckaroogirl, Adrian’s music.

Instead, you’ll find the reality of ranch life, bad horses, coyote cattle, tough men and tougher women with liberal amounts of roping (for the poly deficient). Adrian’s music reflects this unromantic but harsh reality in every Nevada desert soaked note and phrase.

The CD was released at the 2008 Elko Poetry Gathering and has been tearing up the countryside since then. Winter Blues, the third track on the CD reminds you just how cold it gets horseback, and has been in the Indie Internet Radio top 40 since the week it came out (see SongPlanet.com). The final track named for the mountain range that runs through North East Nevada—and the Big Springs ranch upon which Adrian lived as a child, is featured on the recently released documentary film, Los Primeros.

These songs come from Adrian’s experiences working cattle with her family on ranches in Nevada, California, Canada, Utah and throughout the west, as well as from the stories she’s been told by other cowboys she knows.

You can read more about Adrian and her music in this month’s (February 2009) Western Horseman Magazine. Here is some of what is being said about the music.

Oh my God! The very first thing is the woman's voice, and she's incredible!
from Corvallis, Oregon on 23Mar2008

The singer's voice knocks you out right off the bat with its natural down-home bluesy quality and distinctive vibrato. I would love to see this band live.
from Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on 26Jan2008

I'm a fan! Really powerful vocal. High energy. Wow! Top marks all around.
from New York on 19Mar2008

Cascade Horseman
…Adrian…writes and sings about her ranch experiences and the cowboy way of life. She had a voice that seemed many years older than her age; it was impressively strong and clear.

Songplanet.com DJ
…she appears to have extreme talent and a truly unique blend of rock and country with an almost “new genre all it’s own” sound and image, and she sings pretty darn well, too!

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  • Adrian
    author: Robin

    If there were a hundred starts possible, I would give her each and everyone. This CD goes above and beyond its purpose to entertain. This music touches me to the core. Her voice, the words, and above all her genuine spirit comes through and then sets her apart from being just entertaining. I can not say enough for this young artist.

  • COWBOY
    author: kirk jernigan

    IT IS NICE SOMEONE TODAY IS SINGING ABOUT THIS LIFESTYLE. WE LIVE THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM "RANCHING" FOR LIVING, NOT JUST FOR THE WEEKENDS. LOVE THE MUSIC!!!!

  • Highway 80
    author: Michael Tonne

    I loved it! If I keep playing it I'll wear it out! I espically loved Tuscarora, and Old Time Vaquero. Can't wait for your next CD.

  • author: WOCowboy

    This gal knows her stuff. From the cold and the colts to the "romance" that isn't. She doesn't just touch the buckaroo, she reaches out to cowboys everywhere. Good on ya' kid.

  • high way 80
    author: Ben Johnson

    This young lady has a voice from heaven. She will go far

  • Highway 80
    author: Caleb

    We love the music,waiting for the next one!

  • hwy 80
    author: John R. Henke

    I must like your music. I just bought the CD. Looking forward to lisening to it while trucking down the road.

  • Hope to see her sing again sometime!
    author: Pendleton Taster

    She truly has a great voice and sings about real situations in the ranching and buckaroo world and is doing a good job preserving customs and cultures of the Great Basin and Intermountain West.

  • hwy 80
    author: thad r

    It is an great cd hope to hear more from her. Nice to have music about the places i know.

  • Idaho Listener
    author: Ginny P.

    Really wonderful! I just can't seem to stop playing the CD over and over!!

  • Highway 80
    author: CL

    Wonderfully moving, outstanding voice. Obviously quite a lot of heart. She paints quite a picture with words and voice.

  • Dobro player
    author: John Burger

    This album rivals Sierra Hull's new CD "Secrets" in terms of Adrian's singing voice...now if she just had Dan Tyminski for backup vocals and Rob Ickes on the Dobro. What a beautiful start to, I hope, a long career in music. American Idol should be so lucky. When are her personal appearances?

  • Elko, NV
    author: rick alpers

    My son, Ryan and I attended the Cowboy Poetry Gathering this January (08) and heard Adrian sing. Her songs take you to the real everyday challenges of working ranchers and cowboys. Well done Adrian. Keep singing and ride for all your worth! Rick and Ryan Alpers

  • HWY 80
    author: Patti T

    I first heard Adrian sing at this years National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. I loved her music so much I bought one CD there and ordered 3 more, for family and friends. Amazing depth in her young voice. She must have a beautiful old soul.

  • True to her subjects and life.
    author: Chris & Tiffanie Labbe

    Adrian Brannan has been a friend of mine since her family and I met almost 13 years ago. I know this could be misconstrued as partiality but I truly believe that Adrian speaks for her friends, and all that work on ranches and in agriculture. Ian Tyson has long been the spokesmen for the cowboy American & Canadian west and I have often wondered who will fill his shoes to carry on that tradition. Adrian is the one. The ballads are rich with realism and continue the tradition Tyson started of telling the true story, hardship, and beauty of the cowboy spirit. Carry it forward my friend...

  • Hwy 80
    author: Mike P

    True to life songs about the buckaroo life. True new talent, much needed!

  • Great!!
    author: Steve Burton

    Love it!!

  • Amazing!!!
    author: A.S.

    The depth of Adrian's voice blows me away, and throughout the album you can really feel the emotion. Absolutely genuine, no faking it, Adrian is the real deal. How someone aged 15 can be this good is beyond me, but I sure will buy the next album when it comes along--and I really hope it does!

  • Don't Forget Sis
    author: Shirley McFarland

    This song really touched my heart! Beautiful voice and excellent breath control as is the case on all the other selections. It's hard to believe it was written by such a young girl. Adrian certainly has an exciting future coming up fast. This song shows that she and her sister have a very special relationship. They must come from an extraordinary family. I'll be looking for Adrian's next CD.

  • Winter Blues
    author: C. Brannan

    You can almost feel the cold and loneliness of the cowboy in Adrian's song.

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