Bruce Robison Mines Fact For Fiction On 'The New World'

New York, NY. (Shore Fire Media)--Long known for his masterful narratives (some of which have become smash hits for the Dixie Chicks, George Strait and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill) Bruce Robison conjures a new set of vivid scenes and characters on his forthcoming album 'The New World' (Sept. 2, Premium Records.)

"California '85" for instance, a song Robison imagines "hearing on the jukebox at three o'clock in the afternoon at Gilley's back in the 70's" could fit right in with the cigarette smoke, booze and mechanical bull of that bygone Houston bar, made famous by the movie 'Urban Cowboy.' With a groove that recalls the era of classic country-soul and is written from the point of view of one of the bar's imagined patrons, it explains to the newly scorned that savoring wine of the title's vintage is the best way to deal with a lover's lies.

In "Echo" Robison imagines a lost love of both Bob Dylan's and Buddy Holly's in the back hills of a north-country mining town: "I heard Dylan on television mention an old girlfriend from Minnesota named Echo" Robison remembers. "Soon after, in the Buddy Holly Museum in Lubbock, TX, I came across this love note written by Holly about a girl from the same place and with the same name! It was a crazy coincidence so I began to imagine who this girl may have been and went from there."

Check out 'California '85' and 'Echo' here: https://www.myspace.com/brucerobison

Robison and band, loved for their raucous live shows where dancing is a must, are currently in the midst of a nine-week residency in Austin which will see various Austin-area guest musicians joining him onstage. A national tour will be announced shortly.