Eleven Stories From Bruce Robison - Texas Star Signs To Sustain Records, Releases New Album

Nashville, TN (Bruce Robison Official Website) - Great storytellers are made not born, forged in the white-hot fire of creativity by paying painstaking attention to the subtle nuances of the human experience. Master storyteller Bruce Robison emerges from the fire on April 4th with Eleven Stories, a new collection of songs that chronicle the complexity of relationships with an honest simplicity steeped in truth. Robison's songs have been featured on over 20 million records by the top names in country music including Tim McGraw, The Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, George Strait and Lee Ann Womack. The Austin, Texas-based singer/songwriter decided to sign with Sustain Records, a new Texas-based label distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, to release his latest effort.

This newest song cycle also continues his streak of marrying emotionally complex songs of substance with melodic hooks a mile wide. That's why superstars like McGraw ('Angry All The Time') and the Dixie Chicks ('Travelin' Soldier') continue to mine his catalog for hits.

'If a song feels real to me then hopefully it will feel real to someone else,' says Robison of his approach to songwriting. 'It's an instinctive thing for me. I try not to analyze it too much because that will paralyze you. I write about things that are interesting to me and with any luck they'll be interesting to other people, too. '

That instinctive approach informs all the songs on Eleven Stories and gives it a true cohesive feel. While these songs can stand alone, put together they create an album that is bigger and better than the sum of its parts. 'All Over But The Cryin'' delivers a punch-in-the-guts look at a failing relationship with plainspoken poetry that takes the breath away. The riveting, 'Don't Call It Love,' uses a sultry groove of a song to explore satisfying a need from a woman's perspective. Heartbreak never sounded so good on the Texas dancehall two-step classic-in-the-making 'You Really Let Yourself Go.' 'Kitchen Blues' is a stripped down acoustic number that tumbles out of the speakers like a soft rain falling on a lazy Sunday afternoon. 'Virginia' contemplates the choices that lead young lovers in different directions with a unique rolling melody.

The six-foot-seven songwriter was already becoming a towering figure on the Texas music scene and not because of his physical heights, but because of the strength of songs like those on Eleven Stories. These songs will cement his reputation as songwriter and member of the first family of Texas music - he's married to country chanteuse Kelly Willis and his roadhouse rocking brother Charlie's wife, Emily, is one-third of the Dixie Chicks.