Eric Brace Cartes Postales (CD)

(Red Beet Records) 11 tracks, digipack

Celebrated Americana and roots-rock musician Eric Brace has made a name for himself with his band Last Train Home, his duo with singer-songwriter Peter Cooper, his Grammy-nominated children's album “I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow”, his folk opera about the California Gold Rush “Hangtown Dancehall”, his label Red Beet Records in East Nashville and his dynamic live shows.

On “Cartes Postales”, Brace sings the songs of his French father and delivers his own versions of the “chansons” of Charles Trenet, Yves Montand, Jean Sablon, Henri Salvador, Georges Ulmer, Django Reinhardt, Sidney Bechet and many others. His musical partner is the blind multi-instrumentalist Rory Hoffman from Nashville, who plays guitar, clarinet, accordion, saxophone, piano, harmonica and banjo.