Gratitude Blues Nelson Bragg

• 1 Lose Yourself 04:26
• 2 Glorious Days 03:05
• 3 Whitechapel Girl 04:25
• 4 I Want Love 03:58
• 5 The Cool Kids 04:08
• 6 Seriously Girl 04:04
• 7 No One's Home In Hollywood 04:01
• 8 The Dover Twins 02:47
• 9 Dreams Made Us Free 05:04
• 10 The Last Girl I Ever Loved 04:01
• 11 What Are Clouds 04:41
• 12 Lost All Our Sundays 02:56
• Total Runtime 47:36

Info for Gratitude Blues

Gratitude Blues was written and recorded during my COVID-19 pandemic quarantine in Burbank, CA. After about two months, I started to feel a sort of cabin fever and knew I had to do something, which of course involves creating art. A third and final solo record was always in the cards but I had no immediate plans...it became immediate in the summer of 2020.

Gratitude Blues is mostly personal and autobiographical like my first two records. However this one feels even more in that direction and completes that musical journey. It was always going to be a triptych. I just don't think I could do another one of these anyway. That's just me. The next will probably be a country/Americana record with a gal singer, I don't know. That's about all I want to do now that I just turned 60...figures.

I hope my friends and fans dig Gratitude Blues. I also wanna wish love and peace in the lives of all the people who lost someone during the terrible pandemic of 2020/21. That’s where the blues in my Gratitude comes from. In my life, I’ve found that music heals. That’s why I made this...for myself, and for those who need it. Hope it works for you too.

Familiar to legions of Beach Boys and Brian Wilson fans worldwide for his part in the 21st Century renaissance of the band's legacy, NELSON BRAGG's creative output as a solo artist and collaborator is breathtaking in its own right. He's been playing drums for over 45 years, starting in 1979. After 25 years of paying dues with bands in Boston, NYC and the Hudson Valley, he moved to Los Angeles to try his luck one more time. A few short years later Bragg became Brian Wilson‘s percussionist/vocalist and held that title for 14 years. During that tenure he recorded and performed live on six solo albums and four DVDs by Brian and the band, including the long-awaited definitive realization of the legendary SMILE album. Nelson also toured the world with The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Celebration in the summer and fall of 2012.

Alongside these successes, Nelson is widely recognized as a veteran of the L.A. pop scene and has played or recorded with LA bands Stew & The Negro Problem, The Quarter After, The Mockers, Wrecking Crew members Hal Blaine, Don Randi and Jerry Cole, Chris Stamey, and Andrew Gold. He has produced and toured internationally with Anny Celsi among countless other singers and performers. Nelson was asked to be the percussionist with The Narada Michael Walden Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco's Davis Hall, backing up Sting, Billy Joel and James Taylor and many other stars benefiting worthy causes in the process. And along the line, he's recorded a trilogy of superb and acclaimed solo albums: the 2006 debut DAY INTO NIGHT, its 2012 followup WE GET WHAT WE WANT, and his self-proclaimed swan song GRATITUDE BLUES (2021). His music is melodic, harmony-based folk-pop with '60s and '70s influence, and he's been aided and abetted in its creation by his fellow luminaries on the guitar pop scene in LA and far beyond: Gratitude Blues alone saw Nelson co-writing with Thomas Walsh of Pugwash fame and Peter Holsapple of The dB's among others.

Nelson Bragg, lead vocals, harmonies, acoustic 12 string guitar, electric guitar, drums, percussion, Mellotron
Jonny Niemann, piano, Mellotron, Outro electric guitar
JK Harrison, bass, electric guitar
Roger Joseph Manning Jr., harpsichord, calliope
Emeen Zarookian, bass
Steve Stanley, harmony, bass harmonica, Marxophone
Bryan Ewald, electric guitars, slide guitars, pedal, lap steel
Steve Refling, banjo
Brian Kassan, Fender Rhodes
Carl Byron, Hammond B3
Anny Celsi, lead vocals
Ivan Pyzow, trumpet

Nelson Bragg
was Brian Wilson‘s percussionist/vocalist for 14 years.

He also toured the world with The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Celebration, summer 2012.

Nelson Bragg is a veteran on the L.A. pop scene. Bragg has played/recorded with L.A. bands Stew and The Negro Problem, Seth Swirsky (The Red Button), The Quarter After, The Mockers, Wrecking Crew members Hal Blaine, Don Randi and Jerry Cole, and produced and toured with Anny Celsi among countless others. He also was in The Narada Michael Walden Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and San Francisco's Davis Hall backing up Sting, Billy Joel and James Taylor and many others.

We Get What We Want is Nelson Bragg’s 2nd solo album following his 2006 debut Day Into Night. The music on both albums is melodic, harmony-based folk/pop with 60’s and 70’s influence.

2016 is the 10th anniversary of the release of Nelson Bragg’s jangly harmony pop heaven album Day Into Night on CD. A 10th Anniversary limited pressing of 300 was made on opaque blue vinyl for the first time using an unreleased special vinyl only mix and master.

Day Into Night is now a two sided vinyl record on Steel Derrick Music...Day Side and Night Side....the way it always was meant to be. It is a proud electric folk-rock album with strings and horns all over and huge vocal harmonies to quench the thirst of pop fans from L.A. to The UK.

This album contains no booklet.