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Artist
Ian Britt
12+ albums
rockfolkacousticsinger-songwriterenglish
about
www.ianbritt.com https://www.facebook.com/ianbrittmusic I’ve become been one of those artists who are hard to pin down easily. In some ways I fit into the singer songwriter plot nicely, but then with tracks like “Instincts” or “In the Middle” I took the acoustic foundation and pushed it somewhere quite different. Different from the traditional Americana approach, yet not far enough to scare the in-laws. I like to mix it up; sometimes I make hopelessly misguided decisions in relationships or have dessert first. I always thought I was just artistically unruly or neurotic but then I read this quote “the idiosyncratic impulses of maverick creativity,” and I found myself quite at home within it. If I may be so bold, I would claim to be an artist working in the medium of music before I could claim to adhere to any particular genre. I’ve been compared to a great many styles/artists, so I guess it comes down to; people see what they want to see in art, I just follow my ears and my heart, I just think I’m me, I’m just a musician. I suppose the tag of singer songwriter stuck a little because life began rotating around me and my acoustic guitar, which itself only really arose because it was the easiest way of making myself and my songs portable around the world. Other musicians and electronic equipment frequently go wrong. I picked up the guitar at a young age literally because I wanted to be Michael J Fox in “Back to the Future” and he played one, and I doodled until I got really goo
