Critically acclaimed East Nashville based Folk/Americana singer-songwriter


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With Patty Griffin, the Allman Brothers, Carole King, and Mavis Staples among her many influences, Brigitte DeMeyer draws on roots rock, classic pop songcraft, and more for her diverse Americana. After beginning her career playing in bands in her hometown of San Diego, California during the mid-'80s, she released her first solo album, Another Thousand Miles, in 2000. Her sixth LP, 2014's Savannah Road, was inspired by reading Gregg Allman's 2012 memoir, and she teamed up with frequent collaborator Will Kimbrough for the duet album Mockingbird Soul in 2017.  DeMeyer's newest release Seeker will be released in 2021.

Born in Michigan and raised in Point Loma, San Diego, DeMeyer grew up singing in gospel choirs. She graduated from Point Loma High School, then attended the University of San Diego, where she earned a degree in international relations in 1986. While there, she met San Diego music scene staple Steve Poltz, whom she credits as a mentor along with the Beat Farmers' Joey Harris. DeMeyer started out playing in bands such as the Syndicate of Soul and the Pink Expectations, then relocated to the Bay Area in 1990. 

In San Francisco, DeMeyer met guitarist Chris Rossbach. They played together in several area bands in the '90s, and he would later contribute guitar and songwriting to her first few solo albums. Meanwhile, DeMeyer studied guitar with bluegrass specialists including Peter Rowan, Del McCoury, and Tim O'Brien, and in the late '90s she trained with vocal coach Judy Davis. She made her solo recording debut in 2000 with the self-produced Another Thousand Miles. With a backing band that included mandolin and fiddle player Mike Marshall, it received broader distribution from The Orchard in 2001. She followed it in 2003 with Nothing Comes Free, and in the meantime earned a spot opening for Bob Dylan at the KBCO World Class Rockfest in Colorado. Her third album, 2006's Something After All, was produced by Brady Blade of Emmylou Harris' Spyboy backing band. Its guest musicians included such high-profile names as Steve Earle, Daniel Lanois, Buddy Miller, and the Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers. DeMeyer returned in 2009 with The Red River Flower, which featured, among others, Miller and Al Perkins (Manassas, the Flying Burrito Brothers). 

DeMeyer moved to Nashville in 2010, and released Rose of Jericho a year later. Co-produced by DeMeyer and Blade, it included appearances by Sam Bush, Mike Farris, and, on lap steel, Perkins. Immersed musically and thematic in the American South, her sixth solo album, 2014's Savannah Road, was inspired by Gregg Allman's memoir My Cross to Bear. She wrote most of the songs with alt-country artist Will Kimbrough. They joined forces again on 2017's. 

“Brigitte Demeyer sent me a sheet of lyrics and we were off and running. Words with depth and bite, rhythm and ease. And her voice! Rarely do you hear a voice with such natural soulfulness, grit combined with beauty, let alone combined with lyrics so inspiring and poetic. I loved making this record and how it came out. It took us on a journey. Brigitte Demeyer is inspiring.” ~ Jano Rix. Producer of Seeker

"I haven't fallen this hard for a voice in twenty years. Brigitte's timbre is utterly unique and her delivery is gorgeous. This record has become one of my main sources of solace." ~ Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Indigo Girls), Grammy-winning producer/recording engineer at Dauphin Street Sound in Alabama

Alt-country singer-songwriter from Nashville, TN.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Marshall Chapman has been making records for longer than most of today’s indie rockers have been alive. Songs I Can’t Live Without is her 14th release, her eighth on TallGirl Records.

Recording an album of classics had always been on Chapman’s bucket list. “The songs I write have always been so personal,” Chapman says. “I needed a break. I was getting tired of living myself into a corner, just so I could write myself out.” 

Songs I Can’t Live Without begins with Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” which Chapman sings for the first time while recording it, and ends with “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” the first song she remembers singing as a child. In between are classics by Otis Blackwell, Goffin/King, J.J. Cale, Bob Seger, and even Chet Baker. 

Her songs have been recorded by everyone from Emmylou Harris and Joe Cocker to Irma Thomas and Jimmy Buffett. (Click here for a complete list.)

In 2010, Chapman landing her first movie role, playing Gwyneth Paltrow’s road manager in Country Strong. While filming the movie, her musical Good Ol’ Girls (adapted from the fiction of Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle, featuring songs by Matraca Berg and Marshall) opened off-Broadway. That fall, Chapman simultaneously released a book (They Came to Nashville) and CD (Big Lonesome). They Came to Nashville was nominated for the 2011 SIBA Book Award for nonfiction, and the Philadelphia Inquirer named Big Lonesome “Best Country/Roots Album of 2010.”

Of her three rockin’ albums for Epic, the Al Kooper-produced Jaded Virgin was voted Record of the Year (1978) by Stereo Review. Her album, It’s About Time… (Island, 1995), recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women, drew rave reviews from Time, USA Today and the Village Voice.

Marshall’s first book, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller (St. Martin’s Press) was a SIBA bestseller, 2004 SIBA Book Award finalist, and one of three finalists for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. The book is now in its third printing.

Her second book, They Came To Nashville (Vanderbilt University Press/Country Music Hall of Fame)is based on interviews with music icons Chapman has known since her 1967  arrival over the last 50years. She asks Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Miranda Lambert and others the same first question: what was your first night in Nashville like? And from then on, each interview is spontaneous, soulful, revealing, and unique.

Marshall is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun and Nashville Arts Magazine. She has also written for The Oxford American, Southern Living, W, Performing Songwriter, and The Bob Edwards Show (Sirius/XM). But music, she says, “is my first and last love.”

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