
Bryan John Appleby crafts thoughtful, melodic music about complicated relationships and desires, from his home in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The singer-songwriter path is well-trod in every city, and Seattle is no different, but Bryan sets his music on a higher plane with the incisively intelligent way that he can wrap words around a tenuous moment. He said in an interview , "I write my best when I’m reading lots of books and listening to lots of bands and songwriters." I think that comes through in his music, with a variety of historical, literary, spiritual, [...]