The Day is Brave
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| Studio album by Brendan James | ||||
| Released | June 3, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007–2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 42:38 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Producer | Curt Schneider, Mikal Blue | |||
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| Allmusic |    |
| Entertainmentopia | Grade B- |
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The Day Is Brave is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Brendan James. It was released on June 3, 2008. The album is an extension of his previous four-song EP The Ballroom Break In which released in 2007.
The Album has received rave reviews from the media and had some of its songs featured on various television shows. With the success of his debut, Entertainment Weekly named Brendan James "Guys on the Rise: 8 rising singer-songwriters" and American singer-songwriter Carly Simon described Brendan James as "A voice that can change the world".
"It's just been a journey for me since I was 19, and just practicing for hours and hours. And to really decide that I want to do this has taken a lot of work. The title really speaks about the journey, because it wasn’t easy." -Brendan James
It's the melody that comes through, sitting on the piano, humming along and not really putting words to it yet. I kind of think about what I have wanted to write about at that time and the moods that I'm in. Lyrics are always last... my best song happens to be written about personal experience - whether to me, my friends, my family. In some instances, I get my writing from a broader sense.
There wasn't anything really specific, other than just being a person in this country who does watch TV and movies, and reads newspapers and magazine. It's pretty much all around me, the content and talk of the war. I guess I was just sitting at the piano and it started to come out of me. It’s been in my face for so many years. One of the things that I kept seeing on CNN and everything was all of the coverage of political battles going on instead of how hard it is to be a soldier. Instead of actually thinking of what the soldiers are going through. I tried to highlight their struggle in the song.
In 2007, when paralyzed Iraq War veteran Tomas Young happened across Brendan's music on iTunes. Tomas handpicked Brendan's ballad “Hero's Song” —a piano-driven anthem about war from a soldier’s perspective—to appear, alongside tracks by Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen, on the Eddie Vedder's soundtrack Body of War: Songs that Inspired an Iraq War Veteran, a documentary about Tomas's experience.
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