Franklin Bruno

about

Franklin Bruno is a splendid singer-songwriter, academic, writer and blogger originally from Upland, California. He has been the leader of the band Nothing Painted Blue since its inception in 1986. Bruno's writing skills comes in various music criticisms for The Village Voice, Time Out New York and Salon.com. He received a doctorate in philosophy from UCLA and currently is a visiting professor of philosophy at Bard College. In addition to his own recordings, Bruno worked on The Mountain Goats albums "Tallahassee" and "The Sunset Tree". He also records together with The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle as The Extra Glenns. And besides all that, Jenny Toomey and Calexico collaborated with the release of "Tempting", a collection of Bruno's songs on Misra Records in December 2002. "Civics", the first album by Bruno's new band The Human Hearts, was released by Tight Ship Records in early 2007. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

A Cat May Look at a Queen

Kiss Without Makeup

A Bedroom Community

I Stayed Up All Night Listening To Records

Local Currency: Solo 1992-1998

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Abridged Perversion

We Can Still Be Friends

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Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 1; Disc 1.

Suggestion Box

Etudes For Voice & Snackmaster

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Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 1

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Rough Trade Shops: Singer Songwriter 1; [Disc 1].

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