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New Single Release:  “All Is Well” Christmas Song by Brad Peterson.”  is now available everywhere.

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ALSO: “Beautiful and Bright” is now available everywhere for the Holiday Season.

Beautiful and Bright - Brad Peterson 2018 2019 annual holiday song Album Cover

Previous News:

New Single Song Release:  “Forever is a Long Time (September Remix)”  is now available everywhere.

New Single Song Release:  “Tell Me What’s New”  is now available everywhere [August 21, 2020]

New Single Song Release:  “The Loneliest Man in the Universe”  is now available everywhere [July 17, 2020]

New Single Song Release:  “Charcoal Soul”  is now available everywhere [June 5 2020]

New Single Song Release “Keepsakes In The Garbage (Silver Anniversary Edition)” is now available everywhere [Feb 2020]

New Single Song Release “Dead to Rights” is now available everywhere [May 2019]

New Single Song Release “Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere” is now available everywhere [April 2019]

New Single Song Release “Tilting at Windmills” is now available everywhere [March 2019]

Brad Peterson discloses “the unknown album

the unknown album

From the woods near Lake Michigan, the ever-acroamatic Brad Peterson writes and records in a hand-constructed garden shed studio. In a few Google-minutes, one may learn Brad’s curious history of shared stages with Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, his injury that left him partially paralyzed, and the rousing comeback from a forced retirement.

Just a few months after the release of “The Ellipsis Album”, which has garnered millions of views and streams, adds to hundreds of radio stations, and favorable reviews, comes a new record: “the unknown album” available worldwide on all platforms.

The Ellipsis Album” is available on Amazon, Apple Music, and Spotify.

Who’s this Brad Peterson, when he’s at home?

Brad Peterson is an indie-singer-songwriter from a wooded area near Lake Michigan north of Chicago. There, he built a little back-yard garden shed – where he writes and records his songs. He has shared stages with Jeff Buckley and Radiohead, but stopped making music after a spinal injury left him unable to record or perform for several years…

All work is written, recorded, and produced solely by Brad in his garden shed.

Brad Peterson is an indie-singer-songwriter from a wooded area near Lake Michigan north of Chicago, where he built a little back-yard garden shed – effectively a music-making laboratory where he writes and records his songs.  “I created the hideout I’d always dreamed of, as a kid – in this case:  an acoustically-conducive workspace. It took months to build, working most every day with many dozens of trips to the lumber yard. On the walls and in cases are dozens of instruments of all sorts: strings, woodwinds, brass, keys, percussion; I also have an electronics lab for modifying circuits. I get an idea before my first sip of coffee, and by the time I go to bed, there’s a brand new song.”

Brad has shared stages with Jeff Buckley and Radiohead and has released numerous albums as a solo artist and with his band peatmoss, but stopped making music after a spinal injury left him partially paralyzed and unable to record or perform for several years.  “It became a struggle to brush my teeth and get dressed, so playing guitar wasn’t really on my list of priorities at that point.  I withdrew into isolation, and it was an arduous journey back – but things are better now than ever. I think the songs have evolved with the pain – so I suppose, in a way, it was a gift.  With the help of skilled doctors, long months of rehabilitation, and painful hard work, I’m back to physical – and musical – health with new and better songs. Building my garden-shed studio was also cathartic and served as my therapy’.  

[More on the garden-shed coming soon]

These days, Brad is completely self-produced – from writing, to playing all the instruments, engineering and mastering: “I didn’t deliberately set out to do everything myself – it was just the natural result of eliminating the sometimes tiresome logistics involved in having other musicians learn and play my ideas.  That streamlined process allows me to do it all with a less cumbersome – literal DIY approach.”

Brad Peterson’s work is available through all retail outlets and streaming platforms.

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