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"A Folk Powerhouse"
-Stephen Ellis, Auditory Asylum
"Trubadour D. Anson Brody is an odd amalgam of preacher, hippie, and rocker whose explosive solo performances are exercises is guitar technique, vocal bombast, and soul."
-Fort Worth Weekly
"He played the guitar like a man possessed with purpose"
- Blair Anderson, The Preface
"A master of acoustic guitar and bass, your jaw will be on the floor"
Travis McAnelly, My Denton Music
"Far from the typical shortcomings of your garden-variety "technical" players, Brody hasn't neglected the importance of depth in his music. As a singer, he reaches pretty far down inside, and does it with the uncanny ability to play complex guitar parts at the same time."
-Alan Ayo, DC9 (Dallas Observer)
"Listening to Brody can stimulate and exhaust you at the same time. His dynamic range and his emotional range are a high speed roller coaster, daring you to even catch your breath."
- Lit Magazine
"Experience the soulful madness and the swirling beauty that is this remarkable musical force."
-Johnny Olsen, The Mad Swirl
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To say that I'm a new folk artist is correct, but the draw of what I do is not a style. It's many styles, made into a style that is mine alone. Some ask, "What is your music like?" To that I often reply, it's like a viper in the poppies who fell in Love with his prey, a beast of burden, with a bluebird in his heart.
I am D. Anson Brody,
the answer to a question that no one asked,
a musician, dreamer, and freak.
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In order to create art you must first create the artist. After that, the creation process is a natural believable extension of who that person is. Some would say that it's the responsibility of the artist to try and promote a positive outlook to his fellow man, asking people to choose to be happy. Though this may seem best, I believe it to be false and hindering to the human experience. If the artist has any responsibility it would be to relate the human experience honestly and passionately with his/her chosen medium. This doesn't mean that an artist has to suffer in order to create, but it does mean that he/she has to experience suffering honestly when it comes into their lives. This is, of course, counterproductive to the majority of people living day to day. This is why artistry takes a certain measure of autonomy, at least from normally minded culture. People do not need art expressing normal life. They have it everyday. They need artistic experiences that helps them in their understanding of what it means to be human in deep ways. Or, to at least view it in a different way. The deeper the touch the more effective the art and the artist. Now back to where I started, to create art you must create the artist. This means that a life of deep, honest, living is necessary in order to create. To the point that creation itself is a deep and honest experience, fulfilling itself in a circle, in an all at once beautiful and often tragic way.
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