Bret Mosley

Texas-born, Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Bret Mosley performs in a normal folk and blues style, his single gigs comprising only himself, a Dobro (played out lap style having a slide), and a stompboard which he keeps time having a booted foot. But he’s not really a hidebound traditionalist, and his music includes influences which range from traditional nation and first-generation Delta blues to hip-hop and Beck’s likewise idiosyncratic undertake the vocalist/songwriter stereotype. Although Mosley continues to be performing and playing since years as a child, his press bio statements that, ahead of learning to be a professional musician, he kept careers as “a linebacker, a hair trapper, a ballet dancer, a stockbroker, an acting professional, a pc programmer, and a yoga exercise instructor.” Settling in Brooklyn and learning to be a regular on the neighborhood singer/songwriter picture, Mosley documented his live-in-the-studio debut recording, Light & Bloodstream, in Woodstock, NY, and released it in past due 2007 for the Woodstock Music Functions label. Together with his single shows, Mosley also performs having a support band comprising cellist Trevor Exter, bassist John Trent, and drummer Craig Santiago.