Brad Parent
United States, Georgia, Ashburn
Brad Parent 
About Brad Parent
I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and spent my early childhood in New Orleans, moving to Mississippi and then to the Houston, Texas area by the time i started 6th grade. I started playing cornet in the school band at that time and shortly afterwards got a guitar and some guitar lessons to get me started. In 8th grade I switched from cornet to French horn in the school band. Growing up in the ' ... read more
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Brad Parent
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a full-time truck driver with a guitar problem.
Brad Parent
Bassist Composer Guitarist KeyboardistBorn in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a full-time truck driver with a guitar problem.
Some folks have been asking me to let them know when I post some new stuff; I've just posted a new song I've been working on, a smooth reggae song. It does have lyrics, however, I haven't got the vocal parts quite together so I decided to post an instrumental version with guitar solo until I get them done. Share it around if you like it, I only have it here on N1M so far, not released yet for digital distribution. I intend to put together a new album with this on it, but so far this is what I have. Let me know if you like it and if I should try to do more like it.
Brad
Hi all and thanks for listening! I now am getting my music distributed for sale and streaming through CDBaby, and they have provided a link where you can find links to all the sites it will be available on, all in one place: (expired link)
I am now able to stream and download on sites like iTunes, Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify, and many more will be added in the coming weeks. So you will be able to find my album in more places besides N1M, although I still have vastly more plays on N1M than I've had anywhere else.
I'm still trying to get my studio set back up at home; I'm usually only home a couple of days out of the month, and there are always lots of other things to take care of, so music has been on the back burner for quite some time. Thanks for your continued listening while I get set up to record some more.
Hi all,
I've been taken aback by the response I've been getting lately, thanks to all of you for listening! It inspired me to create a hard copy cd of "Convergence" which you can purchase if you don't do digital downloads. I'm a little old-fashioned myself and like to have a hard copy of the music I really like in case my computer crashes or something cataclysmic like that. I do still have a cd player in my truck since it's a 2015 model, so I still drag them out from time to time, and I have friends that are the same way. If you would like a copy, you can get it at (expired link) or you can get to the same place with the link under merchandise on my profile, where you can also get my previously released cd's, "Songs From The Void" and "Postcards From The Promised Land" . Some of the material I released on these older cd's was remastered and renamed for release on "Convergence", but there is new stuff on the new cd as well that I recorded back in 2015.
Speaking of which, I hadn't got a chance to record anything new since then, and I was itching to get back into it, so I started working on a new song last time I was home. I work pretty slow, so all I have so far is the basic rhythm tracks and some lyrics that I had written way back in 2012, But I've been wanting to record this particular reggae song since then, so I'm quite excited about finally getting to work on it.
In the meantime I'm back on the road in my truck, and I am watching the numbers on N1M go up, and that makes me want to get back into recording even more. Thanks so much for subscribing to my page and listening!
On the road in Virginia,
Brad
Thanks so much for all of your support on N1M for my music, it is inspiring that there are so many who enjoy my rather different take on music. There are always a lot of little mistakes in what I've put out there, mainly because I'm an amateur when it comes to recording, but you have looked past them to discern what I'm really getting at, and for that I thank you. It is my hope that you'll stay with me as I continue to get better at it. Music is for me a purer form of communication than words, and with it I hope to uplift and to extend the legacy of all those that have influenced me, no doubt you can hear many of those influences in what I do. Thanks again for listening!
Brad Parent
In a motel in Macon, GA
April 20, 2020
Several people have asked where they could buy my lastest album titled "Convergence." Here is the link: (expired link)
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Still haven't recorded anything new for quite a while, but I did just upgrade my N1M membership so I could post my entire album on here. Thanks to N1M for putting me in the New Artist rotation and thanks to all of you for listening. I'm going to post some older stuff on here from my previous albums as well.
Read moreHaven't been able to record anything new since 2015, I moved to Georgia and still haven't had time since then to set up all my stuff for recording. It's high time I got to it though. Hopefully I can get some new stuff done in the next couple of months. In the meantime I am trying to release an album of the older stuff called Convergence, hopefully to be released on March 8th. Look for it in your favorite online store. (or you can get the tracks for free at (expired link) at the bottom of the page, click the link for Convergence. I renamed some of the tunes hoping it would help them sell better.) Thanks for listening!
Read moreWelcome to my Number One Music mailing list and thanks so much for subscribing. If you didn't subscribe there should be a link to unsubscribe yourself at the bottom of this message.
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thanks and to let you know that I don't usually have a chance to send out many emails, so rest assured I won't be spamming you unmercifully. My day job as a long-haul truck driver doesn't usually leave me much time for such things, and it makes it hard to find time to devote to music. Nevertheless, last year I was able to copyright and release 2 homemade cd's, the culmination of home recording work beginning in 2005. If you like any of my work, you may be interested to know you can buy them on (expired link). Not having money for studio production or professional mastering, I did the best I could with what I did have available, and though they are rough around the edges, I was glad to get a chance to self-publish them. The links are below, you might have to copy and paste them into your browser:
Songs From The Void (work from 2005-2010)
(expired link)
s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1390142192&sr=1-1&keywords=Brad+parent
Postcards From The Promised Land (work from 2010-2013)
(expired link)
Thanks again and happy listening!
Brad Parent
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About Brad Parent
I was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and spent my early childhood in New Orleans, moving to Mississippi and then to the Houston, Texas area by the time i started 6th grade. I started playing cornet in the school band at that time and shortly afterwards got a guitar and some guitar lessons to get me started. In 8th grade I switched from cornet to French horn in the school band. Growing up in the '70's, I became interested and was influenced by the music of Pink Floyd, Boston, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Peter Frampton, Kansas, Heart, and many other classic rock artists of the time. There was also no avoiding being influenced by a great deal of funk, soul, and disco that was playing on the top 40 stations of the time.
As I was about to start high school, my stepfather took a job with a deepwater drilling company, and I found myself suddenly moving to Cairo, Egypt, where I attended high school for three years. With no tv or radio to distract me, I threw myself into practicing guitar, trying less to copy than to learn to improvise and create new music. With only a couple of lessons a year to guide me, I nevertheless learned enough to play guitar in the school jazz-rock ensemble. I continued to play french horn in the band as well and took some piano lessons, which provided me with a basic background in music theory. In 1980 I was awarded the school's highest award for achievement in music for my numerous performances and involvement. On holidays my family would travel to Paris, Greece, Rhodes, and all over Egypt, so I got a great firsthand introduction to all kinds of ancient and modern art and culture. During my time in Egypt I also got to see The Grateful Dead's performance at the Giza Pyramids, and observed more than a few magnificent desert sunrises from the tops of some of those pyramids as well.
I spent my senior year of high school in Singapore, and continued to travel and absorb other cultures. Got to go to Thailand, Nepal, and Bali that year, all of which left indelible impressions on me. Upon graduation in 1981, I returned to the States to attend college at North Texas State University, majoring in Jazz Studies. The amount of talent there in Denton, Texas was incredible, and I was there exposed to a great deal more jazz and learned jazz theory. I played rhythm guitar in an eight-piece R&B band called Dr. Trash and the Funkmonsters, performing at parties and clubs in Denton and nearby Dallas.
I finished my music education at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Applied Music. I was married in 1987 and since I didn't really want to teach at the time, I went to work in the food service industry and moved to Houston, Texas, where I ended up in the car sales business and played in the Houston bands Mountain of Joy and S/he. I had begun recording at home on a Fostex four-track tape recorder in college, and some of the recordings here are from those early four-track recordings in Hammond and Houston.
Introduced to the computer early on, I started recording at home on the computer in 1998, and I continue to try to learn new ways of using the computer to help create music. At present all of my music is homemade on very inexpensive equipment using free software, and the challenge is to work with no budget and still make it sound decent. My tastes are very eclectic and the musical ideas I get coming to me seem to come out of nowhere, hence the title of my first published album, Songs From The Void. I presently work as a truck driver, and for a good six years I was traveling over the road and was rarely at home, so my second published work was called Postcards From The Promised Land, and a good deal of that was recorded in my truck at truck stops and rest areas throughout the Eastern United States. Right now I am still driving throughout the Eastern US, which leaves me little time for playing, but I enjoy spending my time at home with my beloved wife, Liz and our cherished cat, Possum, also known as Munchkinbutt.
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