good morning fellow weirdos. next month I’ll be performing my first in town headlining show in quite some time. The radio cafe is one of my favorite venues and I’ll be sharing the stage w/ two songwriters whom I admire a great deal. This set will be a good and long one full of both new and old material. So yeah. See ya there🐦
A few weeks ago Javier Jones of "The Big Dumb" called me with a life changing proposition: "Darrin, if we play a few of your songs will you sing them at our show on Dec 6th". His offer was like a packet of splenda to the coffee of my soul. But I couldn't let Javier know that. If I did the deal would likely sour. But I've been in this business long enough to know that nothing comes to those who wait. Timing was everything and my response needed to be perfectly calculated. "Sure, let me just check my calendar". I let a few seconds pass while I rustled through a hand full of papers on my desk. What Javier didn't know was that prior to his phone call I'd spent the previous two hours staring at the wood paneling of my office walls looking for knots in the pine that looked like jesus. You get good money for those you know. I let out two deep sighs for good measure and said "looks like if I move a few things I could be available". "Great, see you there" Javier replied. I hung up the phone, lit a cigarette, and leaned back into my chair as I let the rest of the day bleed out into the abyss 📺
Look Doug, I told you, I’m a busy and important person, my hat & bandanna lets you know I’m creative while my phone says “Look dude, I remember Y2K” I’ve got oysters coming, make it quick Doug 📺 w/ @jjslaven
I recently began a new chapter of life as a model. I was stopped on the streets of #eastnashville by Caine of @americansongwritermagazine and he said "Darrin you've got a face that could sell guitars" to which I replied, "It's funny you should say that, for this is a truth I've always known". Next thing I know I'm on a helicopter headed toward @donelsonbowl w/ the utmost talented @wruckestrike and the rest, as they say, is history 📺 #Happyholidays (📸: @mackenziekmoore)
Good morning America. From pawn shop to shining laundry mat 📺
@americanafest was pretty sweet and all but I'm moving on. I'm a bowler now🌃
Today’s the day. So stoked for the @rrsocialclub party. Lots of awesome folks taking the stage. Get there early and stay late 📺 #americanafest2018
Tonight I'll be performing a set at the "Tree of Forgiveness" bar hosted by @ohboyrecords // Also on the bill is the one and only @jivey and true songwriting badass @katiepruittmusic // 8pm sharp, open to all who can find it. Hint: it's near city winery 📺 #americanafest2018
I'll be kicking things off at 2 buck tuesdays. Lots of awesome folks gonna be there. You should be there too. 8pm sharp 📺#americanafest2018
Diggin' these fall vibes📺#septemberstoremembers
#Americana2018 is upon us. Please pick me. Tuesday at the five spot 9pm sharp. Saturday afternoon at the basement east (cafe rooster party) 📸: @cowtownchad
Some photographic evidence of how much fun @rrsocialclub parties are. Looking forward to this years get together. September 15th at The Basement East 📺🐦👽#americanafest2018
I once meditated for 3 days a top a mountain in the Andes & felt nothing. A short while later I fell asleep watching The Bad News Bears surrounded by empty boxes of dominoes in a shitty motel beside the Baltimore airport and woke up with the distinct feeling that I'd found my spirit animal: Walter Matthau. I'll be channeling him tonight at the basement. Perhaps you ought to find your inner Jack Lemmon and join us📺 W/ @greatpeacock @cody__huggins
Tonight I'll be at the basement east pretending to be Paul Westerberg along w/ @ryansobb & @william_matheny This Friday I'll be pretending to be Darrin Bradbury at the basement along w/ @greatpeacock & @cody__huggins : It's a week of wonder & imagination here in Nashville. Let's hang out📺 : 📸@calquinn
Hiking the concrete frontiers & strip mall prairies all the way up to Madison Wisconsin to open for true American matriot @missmargoprice #intothemild #loks
TONIGHT 🌙 I'll be kicking' things off at 2 buck 2uesdays w/ the always cool as a cucumber @derekhoke -9pm sharp- It'll be a solo set comprised of entirely new material. So watch ya step, cuz I'll likely be trippin' over words all night 📺
I built this. Now keep in mind any 8th grader in shop class coulda done a better job. That being said, I can't recall a project I've ever started that didn't end in a pile of frustration in my backyard. For those of you wondering what it is. It's a cot. I don't blame you, it looks an awful lot like a table or a workbench. If we're to interpret it as art it can be any of those things. Call it what you will, I've slept on a table before #diy #vanlife #ididntbreakanything
So I went on an adventure. I snuck outta Nashville one morning and headed north. I took a few weeks to reconnect with some old haunts. I was out on Long Island swimming. I was up on the Delaware paddling upstream. I snooped around flea markets in the Catskills and ate pizza on a park bench overlooking the east river. Connected with family, caught up with old friends and gave the Atlantic a handful of troubles I'd been holding on to. But what I didn't do was take a single picture. Feeling reborn and old as shit all at the same time. Life is strange. But strange is beautiful. There's new stuff coming up. Stoked to share it with you.
I had the honor of witnessing two beautiful souls get married in Chicago today. Souls I've known forever and loved for just as long. Thank you Andres & Nora for reminding me what love looks like in practice and why it's important to hold it up so proudly & loudly. I wish ya all the best and may you lose all ya teeth walking this life together, hand in holy hand. Off to Mississippi with a whole bunch of hope in this smokey ole heart.
#tbt to being a weirdo📺