Fire Country introduces a wide new audience to the scintillating sound of Brim
Brim feature in hot CBS / Paramount+ TV show
Brim's music in the form of the superlative single Oleander, from the band's debut album California Gold, features in CBS' Fire Country Season 3 opening episode, now available to stream in the US on Paramount+. In addition, the band has made a strong impression in the UK with a whole slew of very positive UK print press, with 4 and 5 star reviews.
What is apparent is that from the heart of California comes gold - this is scintillating music from the San Joaquin Valley. A region where there's fire and there's firefighting. Here's the story. Singer and songwriter Daniel Rice and musician Hayden Doyel formed Brim with Daniel’s wife ReNelle Rice playing keyboards and enabling the wonderful vocal harmonies. Written and recorded in their hometown of Visalia, CA, Brim's debut album California Gold is a paean to the dirt-road back streets and down-to-earth humanity of rural California's small towns and valleys. The band is signed to Royal Oakie Records.
Brim's local friend, sound engineer Marc Dwelle, recorded most of the album over the course of three hot summer days in Visalia, and Royal Oakie Records' David Glasebrook mixed at his studio in Oakland, CA. The first songs written for the album were inspired by Daniel’s experience with the growing pains of sobriety and the faded dreams of a rock ’n’ roll life. Other songs sprang from a meditation on more lasting things, the kind of things you can pin your hopes and your dreams on.
The album recalls the lonesome pedal steel of Bakersfield country, Gram Parson’s stories of sin and salvation, and Neil Young's loose and dusty years. Inspired by the unassuming fellow feeling of the farm towns of the San Joaquin Valley, Daniel Rice looked to his core and wrote about overlooked California territories, as a sort of metaphor for the finding of beauty in the simple things of life. Not the postcard views of Malibu sunsets and sandy beaches, but a very different California.
Daniel calls it California Gold.
Hear Oleander (lyrics below):
Oleander
Saw the red and the white
On the center divide
All the wrong and the right
Go whistling by
In the dreams that got away
Southbound, lookin’ to die
On that old ninety-nine
I saw the promises fly
Into the land of eternal sun
Southbound, over the vine
Oh, the ninety-and-nine
They didn’t ask why
Like the one that got away
Southbound, over the line
The loss of just one
The Lord won’t abide
Yeah, he’s coming for you
With arms open wide
Yeah, he’s coming to you
With tears in his eyes
Yeah, he’s coming for you
You belong with his bride
Music by Daniel Rice and Hayden Doyel
Lyrics by Daniel Rice
Copyright © Daniel Rice (ASCAP) and Hayden Doyel (ASCAP)
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Brim's debut album California Gold is to be re-promoted.
Oleander will be released as a 2-track single on November 1st 2024 with a new acoustic version included.
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