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Just thought I'd start a topic to see if there are any other Brett Walker fans around here. Whilst his music all has a fairly similar acoustic guitar sound to it, he has written some awesome songs over the years and I feel his music is very under rated. Early on in his career, Brett was a guitarist for Nick Gilder and Tane Cane. As a songwriter he helped out Jimi Jamison and wrote the Alias hit 'Waiting For Love'.

 

I'd be very interested in hearing if anyone knows of any other Brett Walker songs/demos.

 

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MelodicRock.com Interview

Aor.nu Interview & Track By Track of the Lift Off Album

 

Nevertheless (1994)

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Brett Walker (Vocals)

Buddy Allen (Bass)

David Prater (Drums, Percussion)

Moon Calhoun (Drums)

Brian Jones (Bass)

Mugs Cain (Drums)

 

Hard To Find An Easy Way :bowdown:

Lecia

Everything I Want To Do

Take Me Home

Never Gave Roses

Quicksand

Didn't Mean To Say Goodbye

Bring Back The Night

No Fire Without You

Bad Time For Goodbye

More Than A Memory

Give A Little Love

 

Brett Walker & The Railbirds (1996)

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Tommy "Mugs" Cain (Drums & Percussion)

Brian Jones (Bass, Background Vocals)

Brad Zapper (Guitars, Background Vocals, Organ)

Brett Walker (Lead Vocals, Slide & Lead Guitars, Organ)

Jonathan Cain (Organ)

Ricky Philips (Bass)

Schuyler Deale (Bass)

Marty Rifkin (Steel Guitar)

Manon Robertshaw (Cello)

 

Look A Little Closer

Can´t Stay Too Long

Tell Me Why

What´s Still Left

Drown In Your Ocean

Rain Dance

It´s A Good Thing :bowdown:

Yesterday Has Gone 2

Everything I Want

I Could Be Wrong

Take Me To The River

American Dreamer

 

Lift Off (2000)

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Co-writers include Jeff Paris and Timothy Dury. Some songs were used on the TV shows General Hospital, Baywatch, Touched By An Angel and The Young And The Restless.

 

Brett Walker (Vocals, All Instruments)

Tommy Cain (Drums)

David Prater (Drums)

Pat Leon (Keyboards)

 

Rain In My Heart

Not About To Give In :bowdown:

Everybody Loves To Win

No One Left To Blame

You Were Meant To Fly

Long Way Down

Far Cry

Don’t Mean Much

Walking In My Sleep

It Looks A Lot Like Rain

Fooled Again

It’s Coming Back To Me

Travelin Blues

 

Spirit Junky (2007)

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Brett Walker (Vocals, All Instruments)

 

Give Me Back Tomorrow

Something So Real :bowdown:

Until We Live Again

Round And Round

Sorry Just Ain't Enough

Halleluja

Calalia

Waking Up The Dreams

If You Only Knew

Living In Maybe Land

Southern Blue Sky

Rights To Yesterday

Remind Me

I'm The Best

Spirit Junky

 

Other Stuff:

 

Person To Person Demos (?1989) - Awesome songs, never released. :bowdown:

 

Waiting For Love

Undercover Love

Lecia

Hard To Find An Easy Way

More Than A Memory

I'll Never Be The Same

No Fire Without You

No Shortcut To Paradise :bowdown:

No Sense In Falling In Love :bowdown:

Careless Night

One Night Away

Undercover Love (Live)

You're Out Of Sight

Eye For Love

Waiting For Love (Live)

Burning In The 3rd Degree (Live)

 

Nevertheless Demos (?1996) Westcoast Sun Collectors Promo CD

 

Bad Time For Goodbye

Midnight Angel

Never Gave Roses

I'll Be Seeing You Around

After The Tears Are Gone

Don't Say Goodnight

One Foot In Heaven

Take Me Home

The Last Parade

You're All I Need Tonight

Better Than Goodbye

 

Lecia CD Single (1994)

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Lecia

More Than A Memory

Never Gave Roses

 

Take Me Home CD Single (1994)

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Take Me Home

Bring Back The Night

 

Brett Walker & the Railbirds CD Single (1996)

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It's A Good Thing

Drown In Your Ocean

 

And...

 

Michael Thompson Band - Stranger (1990)

Alias - Waiting For Love Alias (1991)

Jimi Jamison - Taste Of Love (1992)

Jeff Paris - After The Tears (1993)

Snakes In Paradise (1994) Brett co-wrote 5 songs & produced the album

Silver & Gold - It's A Good Thing, Drown In Your Ocean (1996) Westcoast Compilation CD

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I've got Nevertheless in mp3 form, and those first two tracks are possibily the most played. Absolutely amazing!

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'Nevertheless' and 'Lift Off' are two very fine discs indeed. :tumbsup:

I actually don't mind them either, but both have been on my trade list (in vain) for about 5 years now. 'Quicksand' is an absolutely outstanding song.

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The only one I never got around to getting was Spirit Junky as I heard a lot of less than enthusiastic reviews....I should have learnt by now not to listen too much to opinion as folks like different strokes, what do people think of that release? I tend to trust people here more....except that Wotty! :lol:

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Someone over at MR.com posted these Brett Walker video links. Thought I'd steal them so folks over here could see them as well. (Thanks Stefan)

 

 

 

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i really like nevertheless. couldn´t quite get into the railbirds disc or lift off.

 

Yeah most people I've spoken to feel the same way, but to be honest I think 'Lift Off' is the better album. Both are very good though.

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"Nevertheless" is utterly killer. Sonically it's awesome with big dynamics and lush harmonies. "Lecia" and "No Fire Without You" are perfect examples of Melodic Rock IMO. I thought "Lift Off" was a bit patchier and more varied, and haven't bothered since then...

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"Nevertheless" is utterly killer. Sonically it's awesome with big dynamics and lush harmonies. "Lecia" and "No Fire Without You" are perfect examples of Melodic Rock IMO. I thought "Lift Off" was a bit patchier and more varied, and haven't bothered since then...

 

'Hard To Find An Easy Way' and 'Lecia' are both fantastic songs, but the rest of his stuff doesn't really do a lot for me. Two absolute killer tunes though.

 

Edit: not sure why the hell I just posted in this thread ... thought I was looking at the 'New Content' page, but I was looking at the results of the search I just did for "Michael Thompson". :doh:

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I believe I heard a new album is on the way. Hope it goes back to the old Nevertheless / Lift Off style and is nothing like Spirit Junky.

 

For those interested you can find a well made unofficial compilation of the Person 2 Person demos at the Hard Rock / AOR Heaven Blog. There is 17 tracks with artwork.

http://hardrockaorheaven.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/brett-walker-person-2-person-unreleased.html

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I believe I heard a new album is on the way. Hope it goes back to the old Nevertheless / Lift Off style and is nothing like Spirit Junky.

 

For those interested you can find a well made unofficial compilation of the Person 2 Person demos at the Hard Rock / AOR Heaven Blog. There is 17 tracks with artwork.

http://hardrockaorhe...unreleased.html

 

The files are no longer there.

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I believe I heard a new album is on the way. Hope it goes back to the old Nevertheless / Lift Off style and is nothing like Spirit Junky.

 

For those interested you can find a well made unofficial compilation of the Person 2 Person demos at the Hard Rock / AOR Heaven Blog. There is 17 tracks with artwork.

http://hardrockaorhe...unreleased.html

 

The files are no longer there.

 

Damn! It was working a few weeks ago.

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