专辑简介

"American Stories" is a reflection of Peter Brooks' journey from a Minnesota childhood to his career as a NY banker to becoming a Northern California abstract painter and a songwriter. Inspired by Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and other musical storytellers, Brooks takes us on a trip that echoes back the history, current events and personal experiences that have defined his American existence. It's a tasty gumbo of vanishing trains, military heroes, family dysfunction replaced by harmony, white-collar unemployment, memory loss, remembrances of Buddy Holly, and redemption ... stirred together to the beat of various Americana music forms like folk, country, rockabilly and Zydeco. This concept album of ten original songs is sometimes gritty and dark, but ultimately its message is one of hope.