Brian Tunstall

Brian Tunstall, an artist from Knoxville, Tennessee, was forced to take piano lessons as a child, hated practicing, so he was never prepared for lessons. Brian did however enjoy playing creatively by ear and composed his first song when he was 12 years old on a Casio toy keyboard pushing buttons with one finger on his left hand to play chords, and then adding simple right hand melodies. In his teen years, Brian completely forgot about piano when his parents bought him his first guitar. As an adult, Brian was compelled to pick piano back up again after a near death experience. It was during the next 12 months that 43 piano compositions almost involuntarily poured out of him. Through many late nights, Brian made one-take home recordings on the internal memory of his keyboard, eventually transferring them to a CD burner using a guitar cable. These crude home recordings were kept private in a box collecting dust in the bottom of his closet for almost 20 years until his wife convinced him they were worth sharing. These unaltered recordings, of not the greatest tone, are what you are now hearing. Brian's career has never been in music. He currently works as a social worker and previously a part time police officer, and is now nearing retirement. We hope you can feel the emotion embedded in his music and enjoy the "stories" his songs tell...